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In the BBC comments on the tragedy in Russia you find how muslims think http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/3624494.stm (Imram is a muslim name) "Its a sad ending which I don't even think the rebels wanted. Putin has once again shown that he has no respect for human life, be it innocent children or whatever. I see no reason as to why the building was stormed. The only thing that comes to my mind is to show the ruthlessness or their military might. Innocent lives could have been saved by negotiations. Innocent children and civilians are paying the price whether it be in Afghanistan,...

I am from Oklahoma. I lived in Oklahoma City on the day of the Murray building bombing. Although we had no warning of the impending doom that touched every one's lives in this community, it was nonetheless devestating. I am sure there are many from New York and DC that feel the way I do. As someone who experienced the horror of terrorism so closely I can truly empathize with the poor people of Beslan. My heart is ripped in two thinking of the children, as I did on that fatefull day in April not so long ago. I can...

United Press International September 3, 2004 Friday 13:23 PM Eastern Time LENGTH: 136 words HEADLINE: Arabs predominate in Beslan attack DATELINE: BESLAN, Russia, Sept. 3 (UPI) BODY: The terrorists who killed more than 150 people and injured at least 456 in a southern Russian school include 10 Arabs, Itar-Tass reported Friday. Aslambek Aslakhanov, an adviser to President Vladimir Putin, said the gunmen were of different nationalities, but 10 of them were from Arab countries and one was from an African nation. They are suspected of gaining entrance into Beslan with a truck hijacked in the Mozdok region of North Ossetia...

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Rescued Mother Tells of Three Days in Hell Sep 3, 5:15 PM (ET) By MIKE ECKEL BESLAN, Russia (AP) - Holding up the corpse of a man just shot dead in front of hundreds of hostages at a Russian school, the rebel - his pockets stuffed with ammunition and grenades - warned: "If a child utters even a sound, we'll kill another one." When children fainted from lack of sleep, food and water, their masked and camouflaged captors simply sneered. In the intolerable heat of the gym, adults implored children to drink their own urine. Hours after escaping alive, a...

If you are interested in assisting the victims of the Beslan, Russia atrocity, here is a source. Also, contact the Russian Embassy

TOP NEWS 646 vicitms of terrorist act in Beslan hospitalized. 03.09.2004, 22.00 “The former hostages are receiving therapy in mobile hospitals and clinics of Beslan and Vladikavkaz,” the source said. Some 130 wounded people, including children, are in the Vladikavkaz clinic. The republican clinic has 38 patients, including five children, with the severest wounds and traumas, and the children’s clinic of Vladikavkaz has admitted 186 children. Eighty adults are receiving therapy in the airmobile hospital, 200 in the medical emergency clinic, 32 in the republican clinic, two in the military hospital of Vladikavkaz, and four in the first town hospital...

Seriously folks, I've been looking for 15 or 20 minutes now and can't find Kerry mentioning ANYTHING about what has transpired in Russia. Prehaps this is his new "Strategy"; ignore it and it'll all go away.

Spoke with Russian Embassy in Washington,D.C.. Their email address is russianembassy@mindspring.com. Please send prayers and support.

CAIRO (Aljazeera) --An Egyptian cleric based in Qatar and often described as a moderate has ruled that it is a religious duty for Muslims to fight Americans in Iraq, including U.S. civilians, his office director has said. But the cleric, Shaikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, said that two French journalists kidnapped in Iraq should be freed immediately. "All of them (U.S. military personnel and civilians) are invaders who came from their country to invade our country and fighting them [in Iraq] is a duty," said his office director Essam Talima on Thursday, quoting a fatwa or ruling on religious law by al-Qaradawi....

Terror Attacks Prompt Tough Talk From Kremlin By Sergei Blagov CNSNews.com Correspondent September 02, 2004 Moscow (CNSNews.com) - A series of terrorist outrages in Russia have resulted in hard-line rhetoric from the Kremlin, but it remains to be seen whether the attacks eventually could lead to a foreign policy rethink, with possible implications for Iraq. President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday his government was prepared to destroy terrorists and separatists. "There can be no dialogue with those who wanted to fight and who made war a way of earning money," he told journalists. "We shall fight against them, throw them in...

BESLAN, Russia (AP) - Commandos stormed a school Friday in southern Russia and overcame separatist rebels holding hundreds of hostages as crying children, some naked and covered in blood, fled the building through explosions and gunfire. Health officials said more than 200 people died, the Interfax news agency reported. Ninety-five victims were identified - many of them children whose shattered, bloodied bodies were placed on lines of stretchers - and Interfax quoted unnamed sources in the regional Health Ministry as saying more than 200 people were killed by fire from the militants or died from their wounds. Hundreds of hostages...

EU wants explanation from Moscow on hostage storming 03 September 2004 = = The EU refused Friday to rush to judgment on how Russian authorities acted in the bloody end to the hostage crisis in north Ossetia, but said it wants Moscow's explanation of the tragedy. "It is premature now, without knowing the exact situation, to make a judgment on the way the Russian authorities acted," said Dutch Foreign Minister Bernard Bot, whose country currently holds the European Unionpresidency. "We first have to evaluate the situation with the knowledge of all the details," he told reporters at the end of...

[Pupils were lured by chocolate then starved and threatened by terrorists] WHEN their chance of freedom came with a massive explosion that shook School No 1, many of the children found that they could not escape. Forced to strip to their underwear and sit shoulder-to-shoulder for three days with their knees tucked under their chins, their legs were numb and would not respond to the instinct to flee. Hungry and dehydrated after being denied food and water by their captors, they stumbled aimlessly and weakly, their way further hampered by the debris and dust from the blast falling all around...

Savage is going ballistic on Islamofascist terrorists, tune him in if you can. He took a call from a supporter of Chechnya's actions, and said perhaps Putin could say he was justified in dropping a nuke on Mecca, if it is indeed a world war. If the islamofascists can defend this type of terrorism as "defensive" (in the mind of the caller) then Putin could say the same thing about using nukes to finish it once and for all.

Fox is reporting that there are still terrorists in the buiding holding children hostage.

A man carries an injured child who escaped from a seized school in Beslan, North Ossetia, Friday, Sept. 3, 2004. Commandos stormed a school Friday in southern Russia where hundreds of hostages had been held for three days, sending hostage-takers and their captives fleeing in a scene of chaos amid explosions and gunfire. More than 100 children were wounded in the assault, some running from the building naked and covered in blood. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev) An injured schoolgirl who escaped from the seized Russian school holds a cross in her hand in a hospital in Beslan, North Ossetia, Russia Friday,...

Ziad Akir, who heads the Athens Islamic Center at 13 Stewart St., doesn't have "solid evidence" the center is being watched. But no one at the center knows who owns the black SUV that frequently has been seen parked in their lot."(One member) claims that there is strange equipment on the car with flashing indicators. I don't know for sure, but it may be a possibility," said Akir speculating on whether someone may be spying on the center.Some may scoff at Akir's claim as a bout of paranoia during trying times for Arab Americans and those whose faith is Islam....

I am listening to a replay of the Michael Savage show. He started the show by asking only liberals to call. He wanted them to answer one question: Do they think the Russians handled the situation in Beslan correctly? The first liberal caller was from NYC. He said they did not. That the terrorists (he called them Chechnyans) had every right to defend themselved from the Russians who took their country by force. He refused to condemn the fact that they killed CHILDREN!! Michael pretty much ended the call right after that in the way that only Michael Savage can...

Islamic terrorists have really done themselves one better this time. They took over a school in Beslan, Russia and proceeded to use little children as human shields when the Russian military showed up to evict them. Vladamir Putin has now officially declared a War On Terror. BBC printed a timeline that oulines the brutality. FRIDAY 3 SEPTEMBER 1720: The bodies of 79 victims have been identified, says a North Ossetian security official. 1700: Emergencies ministry official says 646 people, including 227 children, are in hospital, reports Itar-Tass news agency. 1608: Interfax news agency cites presidential aide as saying total number...