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09-01-2004, 11:29 AM | #1 |
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400 Held Hostage in Russian School
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...ssia_school_dc What do you guys think? What will be the outcome of all this trouble between Islamic extremists and the West?
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09-01-2004, 11:39 AM | #2 |
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Do you know how many children have been killed?
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i last read 8 but i also read it was only 200 hostages ona different site.
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09-01-2004, 04:12 PM | #4 |
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Well almost 50 escaped or more likely were released so it must have been over 100 but I don't think they'd have killed so many so soon.
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09-01-2004, 05:53 PM | #5 |
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*sigh* These people need to have their heads banged together.
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This is just so sad. What evil cowards to target not only innocent people, but children. I just can't understand these people. I wish they could resolve this Chechnya thing. Isn't that who's doing it?
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This is just horrible. I see the pictures of the mothers and try to imagine how they feel. It's unbearable.
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We should perhaps also remember that millions are silently dying of hunger and diseases other places in the world, most of them are children. Only their death is not up front in the media. The fight against terrorism is perhaps not the most important task.
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09-02-2004, 02:45 AM | #8 |
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Some of those children must be no older than me.
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These people want you to be either Moslem or dead. They don't seem to care much which it is.
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its absolutely abhorrent what they have done and really they all need to be shot for it (rule number ONE: dont f@%$ with children...) but the russians dont exactly have perfectly clean hands in how the deal with the chechnyans themselves. their reign has been just as brutal and really its pushed a lot of the extreme people to do stupid unconscionable extreme things like this because they see no other options. those two women that blew up the airliners recently? they were both widows (or one was a widow and one was as sister) of chechnyan's who had been captured and brutally killed by the russians. the swore a vow of revenge. on their lives. because they felt such abject hatred for what had happened to them and to their family members. they werent looking to convert anyone. just take revenge.
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The article I saw described the countrymen they want freed as 'fighters'.
Some of my comments referred to other Islamic extremist terrorists (general statements about the movement).
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Waitaminute, you can utterly despise the actions of the few, but to be completely unsympathetic to the reasoning behind the actions? The so-called "fighters" they're asking to be freed were, I believe, taken in a savage night raid undertaken by the russians. The Russian govt is not guilt-less here. While I do not sympathise with these terrorists, I do sympathise with the Chechens. I feel for the widows, and families that are left without fathers and mothers because of the Russian acts of "terror".
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