Russia a nation worse than al Qaeda. But, a meeting to bring all parties to the peace table is too difficult to put together because arm wrestling with the USA military is so much more interesting.
Hundreds Die As Troops Battle Hostage Takers (click here)
By Peter Baker and Susan B. Glasser
Washington Post Foreign ServiceSaturday, September 4, 2004; Page A01
BESLAN, Russia, Sept. 4 -- Hundreds of children, their
parents and teachers died in the bloody culmination of a 52-hour siege
that began when heavily armed Muslim guerrillas stormed their school
Wednesday and ended in an hours-long battle with Russian troops Friday.
The battered, burned and scorched survivors of Beslan's School No. 1, many of them half-naked children, filled the region's hospitals as troops continued to fight through the afternoon with guerrillas holed up inside the school. Twenty-seven of the fighters, described as Chechens, Russians, Ingush and Arabs, were killed, and at least three were captured, officials said....
The battered, burned and scorched survivors of Beslan's School No. 1, many of them half-naked children, filled the region's hospitals as troops continued to fight through the afternoon with guerrillas holed up inside the school. Twenty-seven of the fighters, described as Chechens, Russians, Ingush and Arabs, were killed, and at least three were captured, officials said....
