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...report by Russian MP Yuri Savelyev contradicts the official history of the tragedy, in which Russian President Vladimir Putin and his military never planned on assaulting the seized school, but only joined the fighting once terrorists' bombs went off inside. Savelyev states that the shots, allegedly fired by the Russians in response to explosions, could not be physically fired from their stated positions. Instead, he insists that the government forces shot first, using bazookas, flamethrowers, and then tanks and choppers, and it was in fact the first bazooka and flamethrower shots that led to the massive explosions inside the school...
...Indeed, just several days after the Beslan tragedy, Akhmed Zakayev, then the Chechens' chief rebel envoy in London, told TIME in a phone interview that on September 2, then rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov (killed by the Russian forces in March, 200 5) gave him orders to do everything possible to save the children." Zakayev said they both "were horrified at this atrocity." Though Maskhadov and Zakayev were not part of the faction that initiated the school operation, they wielded sufficient authority and moral weight to order them to release the hostages in exchange for their safe passage...
...Kesayeva entertained no hope that the authorities would accept Savelyev's findings. "They'll besmirch him, like they have been besmirching all of us for not dying along with our children," she says. Still, she believes that one day, "the Russian authorities, responsible for Beslan, will have to answer for that...
...behind the cloak of diplomacy, and other European countries are crippled by their indecisiveness. Even Middle Eastern nations are doing little to support Lebanon. Clearly the U.N. is a dying institution that cannot protect those who are most in need. Who will be next in terrorism's variation on Russian roulette? Putri Norlisa Najib London Al-Qaeda, Hizballah and Hamas may have slightly different agendas, but they all have the same goal: to spread Islamic rule throughout the West. Americans have three choices: submit to their will, convert to Islam or fight. I prefer that we - and all freedom-loving...
...Boston neighborhood home to Harvard Medical School and the Museum of Fine Arts. 2. A half-hour trek away on the free M2 bus. 3. What you will curse when you realize the one book you really need is at Countway Library. Lowell House: 1. Holding a set of Russian bells hostage, just because they can. 2. Lacking in views and space, Lowell House residents pay a severe price for that quaint “Harvard” look...