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	USATODAY.com - Russia mourns for Beslan school siege 1 year later (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		BESLAN, Russia (AP) — Thousands of mourners with red carnations and roses filed into the gutted gymnasium of Beslan's School No. 1 and fanned out across the town's crowded cemetery Thursday, commemorating the first anniversary of the hostage tragedy that claimed 331 lives.
		Many went from the school to the nearby cemetery, where rows and rows of grave markers carrying children's names, dates and pictures testify to the town's loss.
		Beslan residents have accused authorities of failing to investigate the raid properly or hold officials responsible for letting it occur.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-09-01-beslan-anniversary_x.htm (1017 words)

	155 children among dead in Beslan school siege
		As the death toll in the Russian school siege passed 320 late yesterday, it emerged that the explosives and arms used by the Chechen rebels were smuggled into the building well in advance.
		The battle around the school ended a siege that began when more than 30 masked and camouflaged militants stormed the school on Wednesday as children and parents gathered for the first day of school.
		A child is carried to safety after the violent end to the horrific school siege.
	www.essex.ac.uk /armedcon/story_id/000209.html (867 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Beslan school siege (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		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.
		FOR Beslan's children, reliving the horrors they witnessed during school siege is a painful, yet...
		BESLAN mother Oxana Archegova is dreading this week's return to school for her children.
	news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=1189 (483 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.
	www.mosnews.com /mn-files/school.shtml (2099 words)

	Beslan school hostage crisis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, when the servicemen approached the school, the hostage-takers opened fire, and explosions were heard from the gymnasium.
		Masked Chechen terrorist and a child during the Beslan school hostage crisis.
		The convicted terrorist Nur-Pashi Kulayev, 24, born in Chechnya, was captured and identified by former hostages.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beslan_school_hostage_crisis (7087 words)

	kutv.com - Beslan School Siege Attacker Given Life In Prison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Militants attacked School No. 1 in the southern Russian town on Sept. 1, 2004 -- the first day of classes -- taking more than 1,100 children, parents and staff hostage and herding them into a gymnasium, which they rigged with explosives.
		Survivors and victims' relatives claim many deaths occurred because troops fired at the school from tanks and flame-throwers, setting off a fire that caused the roof to collapse.
		Nur-Pashi Kulayev, listens behind courtroom glass screen, as he is sentenced for participating in the attack on Beslan school in 2004, Vladikavkaz, Russia, May 26, 2006.
	kutv.com /topstories/topstories_story_146170218.html (812 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.
		Funeral processions snaked through Beslan as relatives buried the first victims of the school siege in rows of freshly dug graves Sunday.
		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)

	iafrica.com \| news \| world news Beslan school siege trial opens
		The sole trial of an alleged hostage taker brought to justice after the Beslan school siege opened in southern Russia on Tuesday, eight months after one of the world's deadliest attacks killed 330 people, more than half of them children.
		During the hostage siege last year, 32 militants burst into the courtyard of Beslan's School No. 1 on September 1 as pupils, teachers and their parents gathered in the school courtyard for Russia's traditionally festive first day of classes.
		The siege ended two days later in a chaotic shootout between the militants, Russian special forces and local vigilantes after a massive explosion inside the gym.
	iafrica.com /news/worldnews/440965.htm (491 words)

	Police charged over Beslan siege
		Residents of Beslan welcomed the charges as a start, though they are furious that the gunmen ever made it to their town.
		More than 1,000 people were taken hostage after more than 30 armed men seized the school during a ceremony to mark the first day of term on 1 September.
		A siege ended in bloodshed two days later when explosives planted by the hostage-takers went off inside and special forces stormed the building.
	www.infowars.net /Pages/Oct_04/271004_Beslan.html (340 words)

	Russia school toll rises to 333
		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.
	www.rediff.com /news/2004/sep/05russia.htm (601 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| What happened in Beslan?
		A week after the bloody climax of the siege at a school in North Ossetia, where more than 1,000 children, teachers and parents were taken hostage, investigators are still piecing together what happened.
		He said the hostage-takers assembled in a forest immediately before the attack on the school and headed for Beslan in a lorry and two jeeps.
		One group, which hid in the school basement, was eliminated in a gunfight with the security forces.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/3642232.stm (664 words)

	Online NewsHour: Update \| Militant in Beslan Siege Gets Life in Prison \| May 26, 2006 \| PBS
		A Russian judge sentenced the only known surviving hostage-taker of the 2004 Beslan school siege to life in prison, prompting an angry outburst from mothers of some of the victims who stormed the cage where the Chechen militant stood.
		Kulayev is accused of participating in the deaths of 331 people, more than half of them children, held hostage during the takeover of a Beslan school on the morning of Sept. 1, 2004.
		Thirty-one of Kulayev's associates, who launched the siege in an effort to force Russian troops from the embattled Chechen province, are believed to have been killed in the shootout, Reuters reported.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/updates/europe/jan-june06/beslan_05-26.html (490 words)

	Interfax: Most terrorists responsible for Beslan school siege killed, some still being searched for
		Three militants suspected of involvement in the Beslan school siege remain at large, Federation Council Deputy Chairman and chairman of the parliamentary commission probing the Beslan terrorist attack Alexander Torshin told Interfax on Tuesday.
		Another 797 hostages and other Beslan residents and 46 FSB, police, and armed forces officers were injured in the siege.
		Kulayev [the only participant in the school siege who was caught alive and who was recently sentenced to life imprisonment] tried to escape, but was caught immediately.
	www.interfax.com /17/203659/Interview.aspx (676 words)

	Timeline: the Beslan school siege \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		An intense exchange of gunfire is reported as troops blow a hole in the side of one of the school buildings and begin freeing hostages.
		Russia's Itar-Tass news agency says the school is under the control of Russian forces, but the sound of gunfire continues to be heard in and around the site.
		Although 35 hostage-takers are believed to have been killed in the 10 hours of fighting that followed the end of the siege, deputy prosecutor Sergei Fridinsky says he believes that 32 terrorists had been involved and that two remained alive and in custody.
	www.guardian.co.uk /russia/article/0,,1296826,00.html (1345 words)

	PM - Questions remain over Beslan school siege
		MARK COLVIN: As the Russian town of Beslan marks the anniversary of the deadly school siege that claimed the lives of more than 300 people, burning questions remain about how and why they died.
		The three-day siege ended with a violent battle between the rebels and Russian forces.
		There are three separate inquiries into the siege — one by the federal prosecutor's office, and two by the federal and local parliaments.
	www.abc.net.au /pm/content/2005/s1451266.htm (757 words)

	Esquire:Feature Story:The School
		Most of the terrorists had left the gym for defensive positions in the main school building, leaving behind a handful of men in athletic suits or camouflage pants.
		With it was a mental blueprint of the school, in which he had studied as a boy.
		Already Kazbek assumed this siege would end in a fight, and he knew that when Russia's soldiers rushed these rooms, their attack would be overpowering and imprecise.
	www.esquire.com /features/articles/2006/060512_mfe_beslan.html (964 words)

	Ex-Policeman Took Part in Beslan School Siege — Paper
		A former policeman from Ingushetia, a Russian internal republic bordering Chechnya, took part in the attack on the school in the south Russian town of Beslan, the Vremya Novostei newspaper wrote Wednesday.
		Pliyev’s body was found among the attackers who were killed in the school seizure in Beslan, the paper wrote, citing investigators who identified him using fingerprints.
		Over 330 people were killed after the school siege and assault by the Russian troops on September 1-3.
	www.prisonplanet.com /articles/november2004/031104schoolsiege.htm (266 words)

	Independent Online Edition > Europe
		One of the longest streets in Beslan, it runs parallel with the boundary of the shattered remains of School Number One.
		The street suffered the heaviest losses in the school siege and most of the dead were children.
		He thinks that people in Beslan who dwell too much on the siege are in danger of losing their health and their reason.
	news.independent.co.uk /europe/article309416.ece (1960 words)

	ABC News: Medical Miracles in Beslan
		As gunfire erupted from inside the school, children and adults poured out in a desperate attempt to escape the school's gymnasium where more than 1,200 people had been held for three days without food or water.
		Six weeks after the siege Azam is still in the hospital undergoing treatment, but doctors think that he will have a full recovery.
		Incredibly, within the first four hours after the siege, 47 life-saving surgeries were performed and not one patient was lost.
	abcnews.go.com /2020/story?id=187126 (956 words)

	Network for Good :: Children of Beslan: Russian School Siege
		But Knowledge Day 2004 was different at School No. 1 in Beslan: A group of heavily armed rebel extremists stormed the school, holding more than a thousand children and adults hostage in a sweltering gymnasium for three days.
		The harrowing siege ended Sept. 3 in a series of explosions and hail of gunfire that killed some 350 people - half of them children.
		Today, those children are trying to not only cope with their transformed community, the enormous gaps in their school and their new roles in what remains of their family, but also with their new perspective of their town after being exposed to this act of violence.
	www.networkforgood.org /hbo/beslan/?source=HBO (479 words)

	ABC News: Attacker in Russian School Siege Sentenced
		Alexei Ptakh stands in front of the photos of those killed in the September 2004 school siege in a gym hall of the half-destroyed school in Beslan, Russia, Thursday, May 25, 2006.
		Most died in the climactic conclusion to the siege, when explosions tore through the school and security forces stormed the building where the 1,100 people had been held for three terrifying days.
		Survivors and victims' relatives claim many deaths occurred because troops fired at the school from tanks and flame-throwers, sparking a fire that caused the roof to collapse over many wounded.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=2006908 (341 words)

	CNN.com - Russia school siege toll tops 350 - Sep 4, 2004
		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.
		North Ossetia government spokesman Lev Dzugayev told CNN that 323 hostages, including 156 children, died in the siege in the southern town.
		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 (686 words)

	Russian prosecutors' probe clears authorities over Beslan school siege North County Times - Nation / World -
		Islamic militants seized Beslan's School No. 1 on the first day of school, taking more than 1,100 children, parents and staff hostage and herding them into the gymnasium, which they rigged with explosives.
		The hostages suffered in hot, unsanitary conditions and were denied water by their captors during the ordeal, which ended in explosions and gunfire on the third day of the standoff.
		The school raid was the deadliest in a series of terrorist attacks by Chechen rebels and other Islamic militants that have plagued Russia since the Kremlin sent troops into Chechnya in 1994 and have intensified in recent years.
	www.nctimes.com /articles/2005/12/28/news/nation/17_00_0712_27_05.txt (1142 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Terrorist who plotted Beslan school siege dies in blast
		The Chechen terrorist who claimed to have masterminded the Beslan school siege was killed in a huge explosion yesterday.
		Shamil Basayev was apparently preparing to mount a fresh attack to coincide with this weekend's G8 summit in St Petersburg.
		The Chechen became Russia's most wanted terrorist after a string of savage attacks that culminated in the school siege in September 2004.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/07/11/wchech11.xml (766 words)

	NPR : Report Questions Events of Beslan School Siege
		She lost the shoe on her way to the cafeteria in the final battle of the siege on Sept. 3, 2004.
		Bullet holes pepper the hallway from the gym to the school cafeteria -- evidence of the battle that raged for hours after the first explosions between militants inside and soldiers outside.
		Nurpashi Kulayev, left, the only Beslan hostage taker to be captured alive, stands in the defendant's cage during his trial in Vladikavkaz, Russia, May 26, 2006.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5748369 (2255 words)

	Beslan School Siege: Two Years On Questions Remain - Whistle Stopper Political Forums
		The school is located in the republic of North Ossetia —- the only majority Christian republic in the region.
		On the second day of the siege, people waiting outside the school were desperate for news.
		By the third morning of the siege, with no substantive negotiations under way, the situation inside the school was grave.
	www.whistlestopper.com /forum/showthread.php?p=850220#post850220 (1924 words)

	skyhen.org :: Beslan siege 'planners' captured (BBC News)
		Russian prosecutors say they have arrested four people in connection with the school siege in Beslan last year, which left more than 330 people dead.
		The three-day siege of the Beslan school ended on 3 September last year in chaotic, bloody scenes.
		The Russian MP heading the investigation into the Beslan school siege blamed the lack of organisation during the crisis on senior Kremlin officials.
	www.skyhen.org /Focus/russia/beslan_siege_planners_captured.php (384 words)

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