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	Beslan school hostage crisis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Republic of North Ossetia in Russia The Beslan school hostage crisis (also referred to by the media as the Beslan school siege) began when armed multinational terrorists took hundreds of schoolchildren and adults hostage on September 1 2004 at School Number One in the Russian town of Beslan in North Ossetia.
		The attackers moved the hostages to the school gymnasium on the first day, mined the gym and the rest of the building with improvised explosive devices, and surrounded it with tripwires.
		The crisis was strikingly similar to the 1995 Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis and the 2002 Moscow theater hostage crisis in which hundreds were held hostage by Chechen fighters.
	beslan-school-hostage-crisis.kiwiki.homeip.net (3769 words)

	ISN Security Watch - Tough lessons for Putin in hostage showdown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In Beslan, the gunmen - it is unclear whether by accident of plan - blew the roof of the building first, while the special forces were unprepared to quickly stop the attackers who were gunning down hostages fleeing the burning school.
		In an attempt to greatly reduce the chances of a repeat of the Moscow theater hostage crisis, when rebels where stunned by a toxic gas slipped in by Russian special forces, the hostage takers had refused food and water from outside for the hostages, and smashed windows in the gymnasium for better air circulation.
		The Beslan raid on the first day of school was conducted at a moment of national dismay and against its most vulnerable people, children - facts that have contributed tremendously to public fear and loathing across the country.
	www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details.cfm?ID=9595 (2023 words)

	Russia, Terrrosim, Beslan - CDI RW 15 October 2004
		The 40-day mourning period for the victims of the Beslan hostage crisis has ended, and there are fears that interethnic violence could reignite in the region.
		Yesterday, residents of Beslan lighted prayer candles and placed icons and photographs among flowers piled in the shattered gymnasium at the center of the massacre.
		The Beslan crisis is again fueling old tensions between predominately Muslim Ingush and their overwhelmingly Christian Ossetian neighbors.
	www.cdi.org /Russia/326-10.cfm (925 words)

	Beslan Killing Frenzy Sparked By Accidental Bomb Blast
		The bloody denouement of the Beslan hostage crisis in which more than 150 children died was triggered by a bomb going off accidentally in the school, provoking frenzied killing by the hostages-takers.
		In the chaos that followed the explosion, the hostage-takers began firing on fleeing hostages in the belief that the Russians were storming the building, prompting the security forces to move in.
		Mr Torshin, who left Beslan on Monday, said his team aimed to establish the reasons for the attack, how it happened, and who was to blame.
	www.rense.com /general58/accide.htm (696 words)

	Tragic End to Beslan Hostage Crisis - Global News on the World Crisis Web
		Over 150 hostages died and at least 344 were wounded September 3 as security forces battled militants in the town of Beslan, located in Russia’s North Ossetia region.
		As the hostage crisis prepared to enter its third day, gunfire and explosions seemed to erupt spontaneously during the morning of September 3, according to various wire service accounts.
		The Beslan crisis is the second such hostage situation in recent years in Russia that concluded with a large number of innocent victims.
	www.world-crisis.com /news/715_0_1_0_M (1235 words)

	The Command Post - Global War On Terror - Russian Hostage Crisis Archives
		Yevloyev is one of the supposed masterminds of the attack.
		Nine of the gunmen killed in the hostage standoff in the North Ossetian town of Beslan on Friday were mercenaries from Arab countries, Russian presidential advisor Aslanbek Aslakhanov told journalists at the scene.
		The militants, holding hundreds of adults and children hostage in Beslan, North Ossetia, are said to be calling for the withdrawal of Russian troops from Chechnya in exchange for the hostages’ release.
	www.command-post.org /gwot/2_archives/cat_russian_hostage_crisis.html (9851 words)

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		Beslan massacre 'could have been prevented' - The Beslan school massacre which left hundreds dead, including 186 children, could have been averted if government warnings had been heeded, Russian politicians were told today.
		MPs lay blame for school siege on Beslan officials: Police ignored repeated warnings, inquiry says / Victims' relatives call for the negligent to be named - Police and regional government officials could have prevented the Beslan school siege, a Russian parliamentary inquiry found yesterday in a report that stopped short of blaming the Kremlin.
		The man behind the Beslan school siege said Tuesday a failed Russian special services sting had allowed his militants a free passage into the region to conduct the attack that killed 330 people almost a year ago, Reuters news agency reports.
	www.cremationofcare.com /the_nwo_beslan_school_siege_main.htm (795 words)

	Beslan school hostage crisis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		SNO was one of seven schools in Beslan with fifty-nine teachers and small support staff; it enrolled 900 pupils between six and eighteen.
		The gymnasium, where most of the estimated 1200 hostages were to spend fifty-six hours, was a recent addition, 10 meters wide and 25 meters long.
		According to a poll by Levada-Center conducted a week after Beslan crisis, 83% of polled Russians believe that the government has been hiding at least a part of the truth about Beslan events from them.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beslan_school_massacre (7074 words)

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		Police and troops were out in full force Tuesday in North Ossetia and Ingushetia as the Beslan hostage tragedy inflamed old hatred between regional ethnic groups and raised the threat of war.
		A bomb falling off a basketball hoop sparked the fierce battle at the Beslan school, and armed civilians hoping to save their loved ones helped sow chaos that cost the lives of hundreds of hostages.
		We may never learn exactly who or what set off the tragic chain of events at the Beslan school last Friday, but what was obvious from the outset was that the officials put in charge of the operation were not equal to the task.
	www.themoscowtimes.com /indexes/228.html (1186 words)

	Inquiry chief challenges official account of Beslan school siege. 21/06/2005. ABC News Online
		The head of an inquiry into the Beslan hostage crisis has cast doubt on Moscow's official accounts of the tragedy, saying that Russian special forces shared some of the responsibility.
		Actions taken by the special forces during the crisis were "unreasonable," Tanislav Kessayev, deputy speaker of the parliament of Russia's North Ossetia republic, told the politics magazine Vlast.
		Mr Kessayev is heading an inquiry by local Ossetian authorities into last September's Beslan school hostage crisis in which a total of 361 people died, including 186 children and 31 hostage takers.
	www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200506/s1396512.htm (294 words)

	MarteyDodoo.com » Beslan Hostage Crisis
		Despite the obvious immorality in taking a school full of children hostage, the Chechen militants ensconced in the school have put the Russian government in a delicate situation.
		While it is in their best interests to solve the standoff as soon as possible, I doubt the Russian public would allow them to use the same tactics that resolved the Nord-Ost theatre crisis in Moscow.
		I assume that the unidentified fentanyl-derived gas used to disable the terrorists in the theatre would be even deadlier to the young children that make up the majority of hostages.
	www.marteydodoo.com /2004/09/02/beslan-hostage-crisis (242 words)

	Putin Orders Beslan Investigation - CBS News
		Putin told the Security Council at their customary Saturday meeting that the results of the investigation into the Beslan school hostage crisis should be used to optimize the activity of law enforcement organs, Interfax said.
		Putin was roundly condemned in Beslan for flying into the town the day after the hostage crisis came to an end and holding a televised meeting with officials, but avoiding encounters with the victims' relatives.
		The Beslan Mothers' Committee had long demanded to meet with Putin to air its protest over the government's handling of the tragedy: both the botched rescue operation and the subsequent investigation.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/09/03/world/main814629.shtml (613 words)

	The Caucasus powder keg: Russia threatens military interventions
		The reaction of the Russian government to the Beslan hostage crisis increasingly recalls that of the American government to the attacks of September 11, 2001.
		The horrifying events in Beslan, which shocked and angered millions of people all over the world, are being used by the regime of President Vladimir Putin as a pretext for a domestic offensive against basic democratic rights and the implementation of a foreign policy agenda that will inevitably lead to new wars.
		An indication of growing tensions is the divergent reactions by Washington and Berlin to the Beslan hostage drama and its consequences.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2004/sep2004/russ-s28_prn.shtml (4220 words)

	Islam Online- News Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The authorities have detained the Moscow bureau chief of the satellite TV channel Al-Arabiya on his way to Moscow from Beslan, where he was covering the hostage crisis.
		A former member of the elite forces said Monday that Russian special troops who launched the ill-fated assault on the Beslan hostage school were aware that a successful storming of the building was not feasible.
		Authorities in North Ossetia said late Monday that 18 of the estimated 1,000 people held hostage at a school in southern Russia are still unaccounted for, their families unable to find them either in morgues or hospitals three days after the tragedy.
	www.islamonline.net /English/News/2004-09/07/article04.shtml (1019 words)

	Pope Meets Russian Children who Survived Beslan Hostage Crisis - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Italy’s civil defense department, which had sent rescuers to Beslan during the hostage crisis, brought the children to Italy for a weeklong trip, which also included visits to the Colosseum, a soccer match in Milan and a trip to Venice.
		The children survived the three-day September 2004 assault on the Beslan school, in which 331 people, 186 of them children, were killed by terrorists demanding that Russian troops withdraw from the nearby republic of Chechnya.
		Beslan Mothers Call for Restoring Death Penalty in Russia
	www.mosnews.com /news/2006/01/11/beslanpope.shtml (647 words)

	Interfax > Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Aug 31 (Interfax) - Aslambek Aslakhanov, advisor to President Vladimir Putin, does not think that the investigation of the 2004 hostage crisis in Beslan is dragging out.
		"It is difficult to investigate a crime especially such as the tragedy in Beslan with such a great number of victims and witnesses," he told Interfax on Thursday.
		According to the files of the Prosecutor General's Office, 331 persons, 186 of them children, died in the hostage crisis in the school in Beslan on September 1-3, 2004.
	www.interfax.ru /e/B/politics/28.html?id_issue=11580943 (255 words)

	IFEX :: JOURNALISTS PREVENTED FROM COVERING BESLAN TRAGEDY
		In the aftermath of the Beslan hostage crisis in Ossetia, Russia, IFEX members are raising concerns over several incidents in which journalists were prevented from reporting the tragedy.
		He was returning to Moscow from Beslan, where he was reporting on the hostage crisis.
		Anna Politkovskaya, a well-known reporter for the Russian newspaper "Novaya Gazeta" who was also attempting to get to Beslan, was on a flight to Rostov-on-Don on 1 September when she fell ill after drinking tea on the airplane, says RSF.
	www.ifex.org /es/content/view/full/61161 (568 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| As it happened: Russian school siege
		BBC News Online documents events as they unfolded at the besieged school in the southern Russian town of Beslan, where gunmen held hundreds of adults and children hostage for three days before the crisis ended in bloody chaos.
		They are said to have sent the authorities a note with a woman hostage whom they released.
		At the same time, the attackers are reported to be placing children on display at the windows of the building as human shields.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/3624136.stm (1182 words)

	IFEX :: Editor forced to resign over coverage of Beslan hostage crisis; Arab television station bureau chief, Georgian ...
		In recent days, in Russia, journalists have been forced to resign, detained, and possibly poisoned, in what appears to be a concerted attempt to control the way in which the Beslan hostage crisis is reported.
		In an interview with Radio Liberty, he stated that he was forced to resign after the newspaper's publisher, Prof-Media, informed him that they did not agree with the newspaper's coverage of the hostage crisis in Beslan.
		The newspaper published a large photo spread of the victims in the 4 September edition, the day after the storming of the school, in order to convey that "this was a war".
	www.ifex.org /fr/content/view/full/61147 (913 words)

	Crane of Peace for Beslan Children
		The International "Crane of Peace for Beslan children" project was started on the 3rd of September, 2004.
		The Beslan tragedy is the worst terror-related human catastrophe in the history of Russia.
		The Beslan hostage crisis is an example of the same type of terrorism that has perpetrated the September 11th attack.
	www.iap-peacetree.org /beslan (637 words)

	NewsFromRussia.Com Armed militants attack hospital with children of Beslan hostage crisis
		The gun fire broke the windows of one of the wards, where former hostages of the crisis in Beslan were staying.
		The gun fire broke the windows of one of the wards, where former hostages of the crisis in Beslan were staying More details...
		A source in the Education Department in Beslan told RBC that a special commission had already checked all schools to find out whether they are adequately protected against terrorist attacks More details...
	newsfromrussia.com /main/2004/09/24/56261.html (1444 words)

	Russia, Government, Terrorism, Beslan - JRL 4-15-05
		Public anger over the handling of last year's Beslan hostage-taking crisis might have been directed at the wrong officials, according to an investigative report published by Novaya Gazeta on Thursday.
		In his interview Dzasokhov -- who assumed command of the rescue operation in the first hours of the hostage crisis on Sept. 1 -- said that deputy FSB directors Vladimir Pronichev and Vladimir Anisimov were directing the anti-terrorist headquarters alongside him.
		Andreyev was removed from his post shortly after the Beslan tragedy, while Dzasokhov faced several days of angry public protests in the North Ossetian capital, Vladikavkaz.
	www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/9121-14.cfm (621 words)

	MarteyDodoo.com » Beslan, Part 2
		Russian special forces stormed the building after two explosions came from the school, one of which collasped part of its roof.
		There are supposedly still three militants with hostages in the school's basement, while others may have escaped in the confusion of the battle.
		Explosions went off as the emergency personnel went to get the bodies at around 1 p.m., collapsing part of the roof of the building, and hostages took the noise as a signal to flee, officials said.
	www.marteydodoo.com /2004/09/03/beslan-part-2 (334 words)

	Crosswalk.com - In Beslan's Wake, Eastern Europeans Consider Home Schooling
		More Russian families are turning to home schooling in the wake of the three-day Beslan school hostage crisis, during which armed attackers stormed a middle school and took more than a thousand parents, teachers, and children captive.
		The violent end to that siege left hundreds of hostages dead, and a devastated public desperate to ensure their own children's safety.
		However, the U.S. educator adds that generations have considered the promise for a brighter future to be in their children, and Calvert School is honored to help parents around the world prepare their children for that future.
	www.crosswalk.com /family/home_school/1292843.html (578 words)

	Victims of Beslan hostage crisis demand death penalty to the only arrested terrorist - Pravda.Ru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Relatives of the children, who were killed in the Beslan crisis demand the terrorist should be lynched or executed; all local lawyers refused to defend the terrorist
		Relatives of the children, who were killed in the hostage crisis in Beslan, disrupted the court session when they started demanding death penalty for the defendant.
		According to the operation, the terrorists were going to hold the hostages until the Russian administration started withdrawing federal troops from Chechnya.
	english.pravda.ru /accidents/21/96/382/15488_beslan.html (997 words)

	Beslan News
		Local news for Beslan continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.
		On September 1, 2004, the children of School Number One in Beslan, a town of 30,000 in the Russian republic of North Ossetia, gathered to go in for the first day of school.
		It is now all but certain that the terrorists' attack on the school could have been prevented.
	www.topix.net /ru/beslan (693 words)

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