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Under Russian law, terror victims are permitted to sue only the local government, but it's the federal authorities who are held responsible for disregarding the hostages' lives in the postraid mess. One rescue worker involved in the operation, who asked not to be identified, said Federal Security Service officers delivered several crates of an unknown antidote to the theater and asked police to inject the unconscious hostages. But police administered the injections incorrectly, he said, or not at all. "I hate the terrorists who took my daughter hostage," says Tatyana Frolova, a notary public whose teenage daughter Dasha died...
...life within ATF has really changed. Immediately after the Waco raid, many agents were outraged when the raid leaders, Phillip Chojnacki and Chuck Sarabyn, tried to blame the fiasco on a young undercover agent. The Treasury report, which condemned both leaders for serious errors and for lying to postraid investigators, stated, "Their consistent attempts to place blame on a junior agent were one of the most disturbing aspects of the conduct of senior ATF officials...
Predictably, the strikers were outraged, calling the raid "an Entebbe-style operation with eight helmeted and masked scabs aboard." In a postraid broadside, the shop stewards' committee warned that other companies might employ similar commando raids against their workers. Said the stewards: "The lesson is that no matter how successful your picket, this method will be used to break strikes, break unions and send us all back to the 1930s...
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