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	Beslan school hostage crisis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		SNO was one of seven schools in Beslan, and used to host some 900 pupils in the ages between 6-18, as well as 59 teachers and a small support staff.
		The Beslan crisis was strikingly similar to the 1995 Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis and the 2002 Moscow theater hostage crisis in which hundreds civilians were held hostage by Chechen terrorists, also led by or answering to Shamil Basayev.
		Though they did released some rather ad-hoc notes handwritten by one of the hostages on a school notebook, in which they spelled out demands of full troop withdrawal from Chechnya and recognition of Chechen independence as well as demands that Chechnya should remain in the ruble zone and be part of the CIS.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beslan_school_hostage_crisis (7154 words)

	Talk:Beslan school hostage crisis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The fact is that the Beslan tragedy is only a small part of broader conflict with Chechnya, which is to soem extent is itself part of fight to control of the region, that goes back centuries.
		Had U.S. forces taken 1300 children and parents hostage in a school in Iraq, and the end result was the same, this article would already be titled "Massacre." But I guess when "oppressed" minorities commit this type of violence, there is a tendency to downplay things.
		In Beslan, they actually took them hostage and tried to negotiate their demands, the "massacre" itself (regardless of whether the Russian forces were responsible or not) was a very brief incident at the very end of the stand-off.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Beslan_school_hostage_crisis (11813 words)

	USATODAY.com - Russia hostage death roll said to top 200 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The standoff was declared at an end hours after commandos began their midday assault, when a final large explosion issued from the school, apparently ending a gunfight between three militants trapped in the school basement and security forces trying to free children being used as human shields.
		The militants, some with explosives strapped to their bodies, stormed the school in Beslan on Wednesday morning and kept the hundreds of children along with parents in the sweltering gymnasium, refusing to allow deliveries of food and water.
		Streets around the school were a dizzying tableau of chaos as soldiers and men in civilian clothes carried children — some naked, some clad only in underpants, some covered in blood, some bandaged.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-09-01-russia-school_x.htm (1504 words)

	The Command Post - Global War On Terror - Russian Hostage Crisis Archives
		In North Ossetia, Beslan School #1 was the target of a brutal and senseless act of terror.
		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)

	Terrorism: Hostage/Barricade Incident at School in Beslan, North Ossetia, Russia -- 01-17 Sep 2004
		Investigation of the cause of death of the hostages is underway.
		The Beslan hostage taking does, however, substantiate the argument adduced repeatedly by both Putin and pro-Moscow Chechen leaders that there is no point in engaging in peace talks with Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov because he does not control most of the militants fighting in Chechnya.
		Beslan, the location of the stand-off, is a town 15km (10 miles) north of Vladikavkaz, capital of the North Ossetia republic, which borders Chechnya.
	www.emergency.com /2004/Ossetia__school_hostage.htm (3109 words)

	Russia school toll rises to 333 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Three children succumbed to injuries taking the toll in Russia's school hostage crisis in Beslan in North Ossetia to 333 as parents and relatives continued to search for the 260 missing.
		Parents and relatives of 260 hostages of the bloody drama in Beslan school are still unable to trace their dear ones.
		Children at the school had been celebrating the start of the new school year with parents and staff on Wednesday morning when they were seized by an armed group demanding independence for Chechnya.
	us.rediff.com /news/2004/sep/05russia.htm (601 words)

	CNN.com - Report: More than 200 dead after troops storm school - Sep 3, 2004
		BESLAN, Russia (CNN) -- The operation to end the school hostage crisis in Russia is over, an emergency official said late Friday, but more than 200 people have died.
		Reports said as many as 1,200 hostages might have been inside the school and that 70 percent of them were children.
		There was an explosion, scores of hostages fled, and hostage-takers opened fire on the children and rescue workers.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/europe/09/03/russia.school/index.html (945 words)

	Militaryphotos.net :: Nord-Osetia (Beslan Hostage Crisis)(Updated with more pictures and added some of the comments)
		Relatives and neighbors of killed hostages attend the funeral ceremony in the town of Beslan in the province of North Ossetia, September 6, 2004.
		Relatives of victims of the Russian hostage siege mourn at the cemetery in Beslan, North Ossetia.
		Relatives of victims of the Russian hostage siege carry coffins under the heavy rain at the cemetery in Beslan, North Ossetia.
	media.militaryphotos.net /photos/Nord-Osetia?page=1 (1454 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| High death toll in Russia siege
		It appears the violence began as medical workers drove into the school complex in a pre-agreed trip to collect the bodies of casualties who died when the school was first seized.
		Hostages panicked and tried to flee, while Russian forces stormed the school in an unplanned operation.
		More than 1,000 people are thought to have been in the school as parents joined their children for festivities on the first day of term.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/3624024.stm (576 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| Agony as school death toll rises (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Relatives of victims of the school hostage siege in southern Russia are enduring an agonising wait for news as the death toll continues to rise.
		Work to clear the school, in the North Ossetian town of Beslan, has been slowed by the presence of mines in the building, where militants demanding Chechen independence held children and adults for three days.
		Children at the school had been celebrating the start of the new school year with parents and staff when they were seized by militants on Wednesday morning.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/3627030.stm (647 words)

	CNN.com - Russia school siege toll tops 350 - Sep 4, 2004
		Investigators are looking at the possibility that the hostage-takers may have brought their weapons and explosives into the school well before the siege.
		An escaped hostage said she recognized some of the terrorists as having done the construction work, Echo Moscow Radio reported.
		There was an explosion, hostages fled, and hostage-takers opened fire on the children and rescue workers.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/europe/09/04/russia.school (696 words)

	Islam Online- News Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		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.
		Meanwhile, a map of the school, which was in the hands of the crisis unit, had still not been given to the special forces.
		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.islam-online.net /English/News/2004-09/07/article04.shtml (1019 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.
		This is one of several ways the school is working to establish networks between Calvert, the foreign home school families, and other U.S. organizations or individuals that might have information or resources to contribute.
		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 (569 words)

	Russian officials 'guilty' over Beslan massacre - World - theage.com.au
		Local investigators have concluded that top Russian officials must share in the guilt for last year's Beslan school hostage crisis that ended in the massacre of hundreds of hostages and must be punished.
		The mothers staged a sit-in protest at the main courthouse in North Ossetia not far from Beslan and demanded that top Russian officials including President Vladimir Putin, Patrushev and Nurgaliyev be held to account for their actions and whereabouts during the crisis.
		The local probe, according to Kessayev, blames authorities for not knowing that the Beslan hostage-takers trained in the neighbouring province of Ingushetia, for allowing them to travel without hindrance in a truck on the day they seized the school and for failing to organise effective negotiations during the crisis.
	www.theage.com.au /news/world/russian-officials-guilty-over-beslan-massacre/2005/08/31/1125302602043.html (507 words)

	Scotsman.com News - International - Cult head 'conned parents with vow to resurrect Beslan dead'
		A RUSSIAN cult leader who promised to resurrect children who died in the 2004 Beslan school hostage crisis was detained yesterday on suspicion of fraudulently obtaining money from people who trusted he could help them, Moscow prosecutors said.
		The cult leader's activities provoked a split among the Beslan mothers who had been campaigning against an alleged cover-up of the events surrounding the school siege and its bloody aftermath, which they believe happened because of officials' negligence.
		The leader of the Beslan Mothers' Committee, Susanna Dudiyeva, who lost her 13-year-old son Zaur in the siege, appeared on stage next to Grabovoi at the Cosmos Hotel last September saying she believed in the power of resurrection in footage shown on national television.
	news.scotsman.com /international.cfm?id=533372006 (578 words)

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		Sofia Arsoyeva, a 15-year-old student at Beslan school No. 1, was seen by a classmate being driven away from the chaotic gunfight there on Sept. 3.
		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 (1220 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 /track/rss/stories/2005/09/03/world/main814629.shtml?CMP=OTC-RSSFeed&source=RSS&attr=World_814629 (602 words)

	Pakistan Times \| Top Story: Editor sacked, Arab TV bureau chief arrested over Beslan coverage
		The newspaper was also the first to report that there were around 1,000 hostages being held inside the school, while officials spoke of a figure of just over 300.
		Meanwhile, the Moscow bureau chief of satellite television Al-Arabiya was arrested Monday as he prepared to fly back to the Russian capital after covering the school hostage bloodbath in North Ossetia, the Dubai-based station said.
		The editor of Russia's top daily Izvestia was forced to resign Monday for what was perceived as his "emotional" coverage of the hostage crisis which began when gunmen took some 1,000 captives at a school on Wednesday.
	www.pakistantimes.net /2004/09/07/top5.htm (448 words)

	Pseudo-Christ promises to raise the Beslan school kids from the dead - Pravda.Ru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		His sect became well known after his visit to Beslan, where he promised to raise all the victims of the school hostage from the dead.
		Soon after the Beslan school hostage crisis Grabovoy's representatives appeared in town to offer resurrection of the victims.
		In a year several women from the Committee of Beslan Mothers went to Moscow and allegedly signed a contract with 'the healer' so that he would raise their dead children.
	english.pravda.ru /main/18/90/361/16300_Beslan.html (992 words)

	Australian Christian Channel - Help still needed for victims of Beslan school hostage crisis.
		Even thought it is almost a year since the Beslan hostage tragedy, its effects are still being felt.
		He said the main part of the building needs work, and brick partitions in the main hall and several rooms on the second floor are still under construction.
		The Beslan Churches, Nikitin wrote, are asking for help to finish center construction as well as funds for ongoing support.
	www.acctv.com.au /articledetail.asp?id=3774 (688 words)

	Archives
		The mixed composition of nationalities among the hostage takers, coupled with the killing of two of the Chechen members who protested hostage treatment, indicates that this group was probably a mix of true rebels and agent provocateurs (led by the latter).
		The hostages at the Beslan school exceeded 1,200, most of whom were children.
		In the ensuing assault on the school to free the hostages, over 275 persons died and over 700 were wounded—mostly children.
	www.midasresources.com /archives.htm (7904 words)

	Beslan Girl Gets Free Eye Implant in New York - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The implanted eye will be different from typical “glass eyes” in that Anna will be able to move it in the direction along with her second, healthy eye.
		Anna’s sister, Alena, was also seriously injured in the Beslan terror attack and their mother, Irina, was killed.
		Beslan School Siege Suspect Found Guilty of Terrorism
	www.mosnews.com /news/2004/10/29/beslansurgery.shtml (685 words)

	The Fourth Rail: A day at school (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The hostages were denied food and water, beaten, shot in the back and used as human sheilds.
		It's being said that one of the women hostages, who came out with a child (who was not hers) in her arms, went back in, because she has three of her own children inside.
		Terrorist's official mouthpiece kavkazcenter.com Is claiming that its the russian SWAT that is killing the hostages.
	billroggio.com /archives/2004/09/a_day_at_school.html (3443 words)

	Headline News :: World News Blogs :: First suspect in Beslan school hostage seizure goes on trial
		VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia (AP) - Survivors of the Beslan school hostage crisis and relatives of the dead crammed into a courtroom Tuesday to catch a glimpse of the only man to go on trial for the terror attack that ended in the deaths of more than 330 people.
		Nur-Pashi Kulayev, in the courtroom cage in which defendants sit in Russian trials, watched impassively as prosecutors opened the trial by reading seemingly endless list of victims and relatives and listing the charges of terrorism, murder and others.
		Most of the two dozen or so spectators in the small courtroom in the capital of the North Ossetia region that includes Beslan were women dressed in fl and wearing head scarves.
	www.bloggossip.com /index.php?id=1801 (577 words)

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