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  • From: Tvoivozhd <tvoivozd AT infionline.net>
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  • Subject: [Homestead] 400 Russian kids hostage
  • Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 08:49:02 -0700

Pretty stupid of Chechen Jehadists, good for U.S. getting more cooperation from Putin against our guerrilla attackers.

Children have always been about the highest priority of Russians. When there was little money for anything else, there were hundreds of thousands of State-run neighborhood day-care centers (that the U.S. still can't afford?), so mothers could join the workforce without wondering what was happening to their kids.

I would expect this outrage to have savage repercussions. In the old days the entire populace of Chechnya would have been rounded up and in thousands of trainloads, sent to Siberian Gulags, ending the Chechnya attacks in Russia once and for all.

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Published: September 1, 2004

*Filed at 7:52 a.m. ET*

MOSCOW (AP) -- Attackers wearing suicide-bomb belts seized a school in a Russian region bordering Chechnya on Wednesday, taking hostage about 400 people -- half of them children -- and threatening to blow up the building. At least two people were killed, one of them a parent who resisted an attacker.

The hostage-takers reportedly released 15 children several hours later, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported. No further details were immediately available.

President Vladimir Putin interrupted his working holiday in the Black Sea resort of Sochi and returned to the capital. Upon arrival at the Moscow airport, he held an immediate meeting with the heads of Russia's Interior Ministry and Federal Security Service, the Interfax news agency said.

The seizure began after a ceremony marking the first day of the Russian school year, when it was likely that many parents had accompanied their children to the facility which covers grades 1-11. The attackers forwarned they would blow up the school if police tried to storm it and forced children to stand at the windows, said Alexei Polyansky, a police spokesman for southern Russia.

Suspicion in both the school attack and the Moscow bombing fell on Chechen rebels or their sympathizers, but there was no evidence of any direct link. The two strikes came just a week after two Russian planes carrying 90 people crashed almost simultaneously in what officials also say were terrorist bombings.









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