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...children who answered the questionnaire are all dead. The record books the teachers are arranging on the shelves have bullet holes in them. And most of the teachers are survivors of the Beslan hostage siege last September, when more than 1,100 people?many of them children?were held by terrorists loyal to Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev. At least 331 people died, including 186 children, in a chaotic rescue operation during which Russian security forces hit the school with incendiary grenades and tank shells. The fire brigade waited two hours before putting out the blaze that engulfed the gymnasium...
...proof, the homemade brew clears the sinuses. (I have a picture of this bottle as well.) We talked about oil prices, the 27 million Russians that died in the Second World War and the dual tragedies of the 9/11 attacks and the massacre of school children in Beslan. They were all big Bush fans...
Because when he was 18, after all, he hadn’t yet seen the horrors of Sept. 11, 2001 unfold. Nor had the Beslan school attacks of last September yet occurred, an event which, he says, crystallized his thoughts...
...Russian Special Forces on last Tuesday, the world is witness to the moral bankruptcy and tactical failure of Russia’s war on Chechnya. After six years of unrestrained warfare, Russia has failed to “pacify” the Chechens, as the recent Moscow theater and Beslan incidents show, and all that President Putin has to show for his savage war is a leveled Grozny, countless body bags, and, now, the assassination of a moderate Chechen leader...
...missile through Mahmoud Abbas’s window, celebrating the defeat of Palestinian terrorism, and ignoring Hamas. While the moderate, democratically elected Chechen leader Maskhadov lies dead, other, more radical Islamic fundamentalist fighters are still at large. In particular, Shamil Basayef, the mastermind of the horrific Moscow theater and Beslan hostage takings, runs free. In fact, Basayef may well feel that his unrestrained tactics have been vindicated with the evident failure of Maskhadov’s moderate approach; whereas Maskhadov’s conventional guerrilla tactics—even the occasional call for a peaceful solution?...