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  Gateway Pundit: Beslan Terrorist Trial in Ossetia
A relative at the grave of a child murdered in Beslan.
Kulayev is the only surviving terrorist from the bloody and violent conclusion of the grade school massacre in Russia.
He insists that he was not involved in the murders either at the time of the occupation or during the storming of the school.
gatewaypundit.blogspot.com /2005/06/beslan-terrorist-trial-in-ossetia.html   (1114 words)

  
  BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Putin meets angry Beslan mothers
Overnight, dozens of victims' relatives stayed in the gutted school gym and at the cemetery in honour of their loved ones, guarded by police and volunteers.
Many in Beslan believe most of the victims were killed by the Russian assault forces, after Mr Putin had refused to talk with the gunmen.
Beslan, in Russia's North Ossetia region, is holding three days of events to mourn the victims.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/4207112.stm   (601 words)

  
 Beslan hostage-taker jailed for life for terrorism, murder
The only surviving hostage-taker in the bloody 2004 Beslan school massacre has been jailed for life, sparking angry scenes as mothers of some of his victims tried to attack him.
They stressed throughout the year-long trial that the Beslan school siege was a case of "particular cruelty" and warranted an exceptional sentence.
The Beslan massacre began on the morning of September 1, 2004 -- the first day of the academic year in Russia -- when more than 30 heavily-armed gunmen stormed a primary school and took hostage more than 1,000 children, teachers and parents.
www.turkishpress.com /news.asp?id=125458   (771 words)

  
 moscowhelp.org: Help Beslan children
Beslan School Terror Act Victims Continue to Receive International Medical Help - ILONA KARGIEVA, a 9-year old girl who lost her eye in the Beslan School Terror Attack last year, is scheduled to undergo complicated eye implant surgery early next month.
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.moscowhelp.org /en   (337 words)

  
 Russia commemorates Beslan school massacre : HindustanTimes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Russia marks the first anniversary of the Beslan school hostage massacre with three days of events around the country from Thursday including rallies, ceremonies and a planned face-to-face Kremlin meeting between victims' mothers and President Vladimir Putin.
Russian schools begin the academic year with a minute's silence for those who died in the crisis that began when over 1,100 people were taken hostage on September 1, 2004 at a school in the Russian Caucasus by militants demanding Russian troops withdraw from Chechnya.
The Committee of Mothers of Beslan says it has secured a meeting with Putin in Moscow on Friday, at which it will express its view that the Russian leader and other top officials bear responsibility for what happened in Beslan, and the Kremlin has confirmed the meeting is planned.
www.hindustantimes.com /news/181_1478387,00050003.htm   (256 words)

  
 Beslan - Angry Putin rejects public Beslan inquiry | Russia | Guardian
Beslan, in southern Russia, is a town in tears.
Beslan, a town of about 30000, is in North Ossetia, near the republic of Chechnya, where separatist rebels have been fighting Russian forces since 1999.
Beslan Beslan is an industrial town of 30000 that is located in North Ossetia in southern Russia, just west of the border of the separatist region.
siteshomes.com /sshs/beslan.html   (1368 words)

  
 School Siege in North Ossetia - MN-FILES - MOSNEWS.COM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Wednesday was the first day of the new school year, by tradition a festive event in Russia with children presenting their teachers with flowers and large groups of parents seeing their children into classes.
At least nine parents who were taking their children to school were wounded in the shooting, and two people were killed, a police source told the Itar-Tass news agency.
Medics and rescuers who were inside the school Friday after federal forces took control of the building and released the hostages were skeptical of official figures, and told the Vremya Novostei newspaper that the figures could surpass 400 or even 500 people.
mosnews.com /mn-files/school.shtml   (2120 words)

  
 The Epoch Times | Beslan Massacre Remembered Across Europe
A little girl stands in a hall of the destroyed school in Beslan, where 318 hostages were killed, including 186 children in a chaotic bloodbath during a three days ordeals started on September 1, 2004.
Beslan has been described as one of Russia’s worst terrorist attacks and its aftermath is still fresh in the north Ossetian city.
Beslan mothers say that their children have become tools in a political game, but vowed to fight on for justice.
www.theepochtimes.com /news/5-9-6/32036.html   (651 words)

  
 Scotsman.com News - Beslan school siege   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
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.
INSTRUCTIONS to strengthen school security were ignored by police in the weeks before the Beslan school massacre, the head of a Russian parliamentary commission investigating last year's siege said yesterday.
BESLAN mother Oxana Archegova is dreading this week's return to school for her children.
news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=1189   (482 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.
A security cordon was soon established around the school, consisting of Militsiya and Russian Army forces, OSNAZ including the Alpha Group of the FSB, and members of the OMON unit of the MVD.
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.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beslan_school_massacre   (7058 words)

  
 Five people suspected of involvement in last year\'s Beslan school massacre have been killed by Russian authorities ...
Four suspects were also said to have been arrested in an operation that targeted some of the alleged organisers of the hostage-taking raid at the school in the town of Beslan, in southern Russia, last September.
Nikolai Shepel, the regional prosecutor leading the Beslan inquiry, would not elaborate on where or when the operation took place but said in a statement that it had targeted those involved in the "preparation stage" of the atrocity.
At least 32 gunmen raided the school in Beslan and held 1,227 people hostage for nearly three days before the siege ended in gunfire and explosions that killed 330 people, almost half of them children.
www.russianlondon.com /uknews/news/23681   (506 words)

  
 Beslan massacre conviction, sentence expected
Kulayev has admitted to being present at Beslan's School Number One on September 1, 2004, when a large group of gunmen reportedly demanding the withdrawal of Russian troops from Chechnya seized more than 1,000 children, parents and teachers and held them hostage inside the school.
But he has denied firing any shots or being directly responsible for any deaths, claiming that had joined the gunmen only at the behest of his elder brother who was among the hostage-takers killed by security forces and that he did not know where they were going or what their plan was.
Families of those killed in the massacre have demanded that top federal government officials also be held to account for their actions -- or lack of them -- during the crisis.
www.turkishpress.com /news.asp?id=125425   (512 words)

  
 CNN.com - Chechen 'claims Beslan attack' - Sep 17, 2004
In addition to the siege in Beslan, he claimed responsibility for a Moscow metro bombing that killed 10 people and explosions that downed two passenger jets, killing 90.
In his message, Basayev described the Beslan massacre as a "terrible tragedy" and blamed it on Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Revealing the tab for the terrorist operations, Basayev said he spent $4,000 on the airliner bombings, $7,000 for the Moscow bombing, and 8,000 euros on the Beslan siege.
edition.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/europe/09/17/russia.beslan   (700 words)

  
 Russia commemorates Beslan massacre | WORLD | NEWS | tvnz.co.nz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Russian schools begin the academic year today with a minute's silence for those who died in the crisis that began when over 1,100 people were taken hostage on September 1, 2004 at a school in the Russian Caucasus by militants demanding Russian troops withdraw from Chechnya.
The Committee of Mothers of Beslan says it has secured a meeting with Putin in Moscow tomorrow, at which it will express its view that the Russian leader and other top officials bear responsibility for what happened in Beslan, and the Kremlin has confirmed the meeting is planned.
On Saturday, mourners in Beslan will attend the inauguration at a cemetery where victims are buried of a monument entitled "The Tree of Life," which depicts the children of Beslan ascending to heaven.
tvnz.co.nz /view/page/425822/608213   (486 words)

  
 Inside Bay Area - Security forces cleared in Beslan school massacre
MOSCOW —; Prosecutors examining last year's school siege in Beslan have found no reason to blame security forces for the deaths of 331 hostages, including 186 children, during a police raid, the official leading the probe said Tuesday.
The comments by Deputy Prosecutor General Nikolai Shepel, which provoked outrage from victims' relatives, differed sharply from last month's report by a regional legislative panel that accused Russian authorities of botching rescue efforts and urged that those responsible for the Sept. 3, 2004, bloodbath be punished.
Islamic militants seized Beslan's School No. 1 on the first day of school, taking more than 1,100 children, parents and staff hostage.
www.insidebayarea.com /trivalleyherald/news/ci_3349717   (188 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com - Live Online
Russia is in mourning after officials reported a death toll of 334 people, including 156 children, and 200 still missing in the Beslan school massacre.
ET to discuss the school massacre in Beslan and Putin's angered response to terrorism.
But even if you look at Beslan as President Putin claims as part of the international war on terror, there is a role for the international community.
discuss.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/zforum/04/sp_world_mendelson090904.htm   (3024 words)

  
 School massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A school massacre is an incident of attempted mass murder involving at least one actual death that occurs at a school.
Even in the worst school massacre in United States history, the Bath School disaster, the perpetrator was a member of the school board.
The Red Lake High School massacre in 2005 (Red Lake, Minnesota) was a notable exception, copying the element of a gunman in a fl trench coat.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/School_massacre   (4912 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Russia beslan
May 26: The sole surviving attacker of the Beslan school siege of September 2004 was found guilty today of murder, hostage taking and terrorism but was spared the death penalty because of Russia's current moratorium on executions.
September 8: Dramatic images of life inside the gym during the hostage-taking at middle school 1 in Beslan were shown last night by the Russian television station NTV for the first time.
September 5: As the death toll in the siege of Beslan's School Number One climbed to 330 - 156 of them children - President Vladimir Putin warned yesterday that terrorists had declared 'a full-scale war' on Russia.
www.guardian.co.uk /russia/beslan   (534 words)

  
 Cox & Forkum: Noms de Guerre
It's the one-year anniversary of the Beslan school massacre, and still few news articles acknowledge the Islamist motivations of the terrorists.
Stifling anguished cries, survivors of the Beslan tragedy and relatives of more than 300 dead hostages observed a minute of silence at the ruins of School Number One on the anniversary of the disaster.
The Beslan tragedy began last year on September 1 when gunmen seized more than 1,100 students, parents and teachers while they celebrated the start to the academic year.
www.coxandforkum.com /archives/000658.html   (387 words)

  
 Black Psyop at Russian School Controlled by Wall Street
Thanks to the Mistaravim psyop at Beslan school, most television viewers now believe Muslims are sub-humans who abduct, abuse, and deprive unarmed children of food and water, before callously raping and murdering them.
Two weeks later, after the downing of the twin Tupolevs and the mass murder of women and children trapped in the school at Beslan in North Ossetia, the "Russia's 9-11" analogy would become valid and reasonable.
on September 1, 2004, Beslan school in southern Russia was seized by a group of unknown terrorists.
www.vialls.com /myahudi/beslanpsyop.html   (2393 words)

  
 CNN.com - Russia school siege toll tops 350 - Sep 4, 2004
BESLAN, Russia (CNN) -- The death toll in the Russian hostage crisis has climbed beyond 350 as President Vladimir Putin denounced the massacre as "an attack on our country."
In a nationally televised speech Saturday, Putin said the fall of the Soviet Union had left the country unable to react to attacks, and he urged Russians to join together.
Investigators are looking at the possibility that the hostage-takers may have brought their weapons and explosives into the school well before the siege.
www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/europe/09/04/russia.school/index.html   (686 words)

  
 Suspect in Beslan school siege goes on trial - World News - MSNBC.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Nur-Pashi Kulayev, the sole known survivor from the militant group that seized a school last September in the southern Russian town of Beslan, listens behind bars to charges against him during the trial in Vladikavkaz, Northern Ossetia, Russia, on Tuesday.
Some residents of Beslan said they were anticipating the trial with dread, fearing painful memories would be dredged up.
Susanna Dudiyeva, 44, whose son died in the school seizure, heads the Beslan Mothers’ Committee, which has criticized regional and federal authorities for incompetence, both in protecting the school and in investigating the attack.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/7881018   (726 words)

  
 Larrt Pratt -- Lesson from Beslan School Massacre
Blame is deserved for the immoral policy of civilian disarmament that left a school unprotected.
In 1975, Islamist butchers slaughtered students in an Israeli school.
After that, their schools have been protected not only by guards, but by armed adults (staff and even parents) as well.
www.newswithviews.com /Pratt/larry39.htm   (859 words)

  
 TIMEeurope Magazine | Slaughter of the Innocents   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
After the Beslan school slaughter, the Kremlin's handling of the siege comes under fire.
The ghastly end to a school siege in the Russian republic of North Ossetia leaves a town in mourning for its lost children.
Kasumova, a 37-year-old teacher at the school, and Timur were among the nearly 1,200 hostages packed into the gym.
www.time.com /time/europe/html/040913/story.html   (1167 words)

  
 New Video Of Beslan School Terror, See 48 Hours Video Of Terrorists' School Siege - CBS News
Dariya and her mother started running toward the school, and were lost in a crowd of tears.
The school's principal was brought in to speak with Khuchbarov and Aushev.
At the remains of the school, family members and townspeople have memorialized the suffering by leaving bottles of water, hoping somehow to quench the victims' thirst.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/01/20/48hours/main668127.shtml   (3170 words)

  
 nbc6.net - Local News - Beslan School Massacre Marked In Russia
BESLAN, Russia -- Piercing wails cut through the air as grief-stricken residents of this southern Russian town held a moment of silence Saturday, a year to the day after hundreds of their relatives and neighbors died in a hail of gunfire and explosions that ended a horrific school hostage crisis.
By 1:05 p.m., the time of the first explosion that announced the bloody end to the three-day hostage crisis, at least 4,000 people had squeezed into the courtyard outside the Beslan school gymnasium where the victims endured terror, thirst and hunger.
Beslan Mothers' Committee leader Susanna Dudiyeva told reporters after Friday's meeting that the group still held Putin personally responsible for the tragedy and that Putin told them he feels guilty.
www.nbc6.net /news/4932679/detail.html   (770 words)

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