Moscow Subway Bombings Show That the Caucasus Region Is Still Seething
It was only a few weeks ago that the Russian government was proclaiming its brilliance in killing “notorious gang leader” Said Buryatsky in Ingushetia after allegedly linking him to the November 2009 bombing of the Nevsky Express passenger train between St. Petersburg and Moscow, an incident that left 39 Russians dead.
But if the Kremlin meant to suggest that such incidents were now a thing of the past, it was very much mistaken.
Early Monday morning, just as rush hour was beginning, two Moscow subway stations were bombed, one just steps from the headquarters of the KGB on Lubianka Square. An almost identical number of Russians were killed as in the Nevsky incident, and right in the heart of the capital city. Almost immediately, a lethal team of “black widow” suicide attackers was blamed. It was as if the Caucasus rebels were sending a clear message to Vladimir Putin himself: “You think you’ve won? Think again.”
Last February Doku Umarov, leader of the militant Islamist group Caucasus Emirate, declared: “Russians do not understand that the war today is coming to their streets, the war is coming to their homes, the war is coming to their cities.” At the time, it seemed like bluster. Now, it seems like a declaration of war.
The BBC quoted security expert Victor Mizin, whose wife was on one of the trains attacked: “Russia opposes a very tough enemy and it comes from our North Caucasian region but still it’s an ongoing process and unfortunately the security forces are unable to quell it.”
The Kremlin liquidated Shamil Basayev, the Chechen Osama bin Laden, in July 2006 following the infamous attacks on the Beslan school and the Dubrovka theater in Moscow. But that didn’t stop the violence. It installed a puppet ruler in Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, but that didn’t stop the New York Times from reporting just days ago, on the total “breakdown of law and order” in neighboring Dagestan, where the killing of police and government officials has become part of the daily routine.
Instead of quieting the region, Putin’s intense crackdown on Chechnya has only served to spread the fervor of rebellion throughout the Caucasus region, and his decision to support the separatist cause in Georgia has only established a clear precedent by which various Caucasian groups can demand their own freedom.
The Putin regime continues to commit barbarous atrocities in the region against civilians. It continues to rack up a shocking litany of convictions in the European Court of Human Rights for crimes like state-sponsored murder, torture, and kidnapping. Yet despite this brutality, feared militant groups continue to rise from the supposed dead to strike against Russia’s civilian population with impunity, all part of a “hidden war” being waged in Putin’s Russia against “bandits” he supposedly defeated long ago.
Hey
I see how it is here.
When they are in Russia they are Muslim Separatists and it is a rebellion. Thank you for clearing that up. I thought it was all consistent terrorism and war against the west. Apparently it is more nuanced than that.
How can the author even attempt to justify the loss of innocent civilians? Surely you understand that these people had nothing to do with what happened in the Northern Caucaus region, that if anything, the Russian government should’ve been blown up, not the people?
The similarities between the Putin regime and the Bush/Cheney regime are too striking to ignore, and it is sad that the media chooses to ignore them.
This surely wouln’t happen in the US, uh, I forgot to talk of Norman LeBoon
Hey, here’s a great idea for Russia — If they really are having a problem with manaiacal Islamic separatists…. why not do every thing they can to ensure that the Iranians get nukes, basically just to tweak an America ruled by Barack Obama?
C’mon, that’s called brilliant strategy!
As long as profits are higher priority than people, Russian businesses, like others, who do business with companies in countries
that are majority Muslim – they are like Armand Hammer.
Given that history is what people want it to be, there are history books that make Armand Hammer to be a 20th century carpet-bagger (which is a term, for those who do not know, used to describe scoundrels, scalawags, deformed souls, and other unsavoury terms to describe those of that ilk).
Muslim jihadists don’t care about our internal divisions. They will kill russians, chinese, americans, jews, hindus, etc. Everything non-muslim is fair game to them.
Americans, Europeans and Russians should wise up and work together against this menace.
Or it could be like the 1999 apartment bombings…
Blogger says social media have failed on Metro blast:
http://3dblogger.typepad.com/minding_russia/2010/03/social-media-fails-in-covering-moscow-metro-blast.html
More proof of how the Internet is the salvation of Russian democracy. Not!
It is time to classify Islime as a terrorist organization!
There has been no condemnation from any Islime country, leader, or group.
No English definition of religious could include: flying planes into buildings or blowing up buses/subway cars.
If Islime is not a terrorist organization, none exist.
Al Qaeda is a front organization for middle east intelligence agencies; in a good cop bad cop con;
Islime preaches violent jihad in every “terrorist recruitment center” (AKA Mosque)
Something that a lot of folks are missing: just because the Chechens are engaging in terrorism doesn’t mean that the Russian Government isn’t a totalitarian thug regime.
The news of a terrorist bombing against innocent civilians might not be the best vehicle for lamenting mistreatment of the terrorists.
Zigfeld can’t help herself not to dance on the graves on a day of terrible tragedy.
Alas, while there was a question in the past why Pajamas Media would promote her brand of anti-Russian propaganda, there is no question anymore.
What a shame!
Precisely. It seems that Be, whoever he/she is, is trying to instigate hatred against the Russian government on an article which laments loss of innocent life on a subway station. C’mon people, what’s wrong with you? Why don’t you take your biased, and foolish posts elsewhere, anywhere but here. Although this article does come from the chief editor of La Russophobe, so it’s not surprising to see such ridiculous content here.
Be: did you mean to say “Checken Islamic terrorist”; just because “the Moscow weapons company” is what it is; What has that got to do with the Islime religion blowing up subway cars? At least you admit that your Islime in in fact a terrorist organization;
PTfulla Bulla: yes, I appreciate your point of view that demonstrates beyond a reasonable doubt that “liberalism is a mental disorder”.
Which century was is not seething? More pointedly, the seething is coming here. Maybe the Russians need to invest in drone technology so they, too, can do pre-trail targeted assassinations of suspects during law enforcement operations against man made natural disasters. Maybe we should have linked more humane Russian killing procedures for pre-trial executions of Muslims to reducing our nuclear warhead inventory? Fewer war heads for more dead rag heads, seems like a no brainer to me. I’m surprised the thought didn’t occur to those Chicago politicians in the White House, they need to work on their ruthless quotient to keep up with the Russians .
It is an old pattern of battle. One People to another. One People send their/a few warriors out to do what mayhem and murder on another People that they can. The proper response of a People subjected to such tactics is decimation/massacre of the base population for which said warriors are acting.
In America that meant Indian tribes encampments of women, children and old men wiped out by the army after and while said tribes had their young warriors courageously massacring homesteads of a few white Euro couples and children.
Today it means we need to decimate moslems until they quit attacking us. That means nukes on moslem cities. Unless you are willing to have your kids school bus being a target for moslems at will.
Russia has been invading and savaging countries for a century. How can anyone compare this to the US and 9/11.
What part of “The Kremlin caused the genocide of 100 million in the last century” do people not understand?
Do you think the corporate cultural within those walls changed because the letters were changed from “KGB” to “FSB”?
http://www.faminegenocide.com/resources/famine_map.html
Putin’s strategy failed. Didn’t he just had a kid with a Cossack gymnast? His first Muslim son? and the Jihadists are still bombing the subways?
Hmmm, I wonder if Bammy will manufacture a crisis over Russia taking over Chechnya and approves building houses in Moscow. Or will he do a full 90 degree bow to Putin?
Kim Zigfeld is the Joe Klein of PJTV. Really, people, it’s all Russia’s fault? This has nothing to do with radical Islam? Zigfeld even mentions Dagestan without a single reference to the Wahhabism that causes so much of the turmoil in the region. Just like Obama always blames Bush, and liberals always blame Israel, Zigfeld’s ideological narrative is equally disingenuous.
I admit to being torn.
The Russians are notoriously ham-handed in dealing with people they want to subjugate, and the Chechens are no exception. OTOH, it could be the Chechens are Muslim “separatists” — or is it imperialists, working for Iran? The problem I have is, if I supposed the Russians treated the Muslims as well as we do, I know the response by the Chechens would be the same. Given what I know about the Muslim Brotherhood, the Hamas Covenant, and events over the last few years, I have to think that, if the Russians were the kindest, gentlest, most liberal nation on earth, the Chechens would still attack them, just as they have done to us. They aren’t attacking the Russians because of the Russians’ behavior any more than they have attacked us because of our behavior. They attack us all, all countries (Pakistan, Iraq, India, Indonesia Israel, Lebanon, for example) because of what they want to do to us all.
They attack us because they intend to kill us, the Jews, and every Muslim that disagrees with them.
It’s time to close the gates of Hell.
It’s time for PJM to stop running Zigfeld’s columns. Period. She, or he, or it, is a deeply sick individual whose only passion is hatred of all Russians.
I thought I was jaded enough to read this column without wincing, but I was wrong. Dozens of innocent commuters die in a terrorist attack on the subway and all this monster can say is that they had it coming because of something the government did thousands of miles away?
Try substituting “9/11″ for “Moscow Metro attack” and see how that sounds.
In Ukraine, people are simply assuming that this horrific attack was staged by the FSB. The Kremlin has certainly done it before and has nothing preventing it from doing it again. There has been growing dissatisfaction with the Putin regime inside of Russia. Attention needs to be diverted elsewhere, back to “security” issues. Hence, staged terrorist acts. After all, for the Kremlin, human life is the cheapest commodity.
ava, and in san francisco and paris many people simply assumed that 9-11 were staged by the CIA and ExxonMobil. get a life
i hate “truthers” and conspiracy theorists, be it anti-american or anti-israel or anti-russian
Obviously the real issue is that Russians should stop building houses in Moscow.
Russia’s support of Islamic regimes mean nothing to Muslims, if the Caucasus region is treated like a war zone. There policies towards nuclear proliferation will come back and bite them in the worst way.
lauren, you’re rightly wary of tin-foil hat wearing activists. I’m also wary of people wearing blinders. History has informed Ukrainian assumptions about Kremlin involvement in the Moscow bombings. Ukraine has been the object of violent kgb false-flag operations, operations which have cost countless lives, leaving not one family untouched.
Perhaps your vehemence would be better served if it was informed with facts. Reading helps. The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB may be a pretty good place to start.
In think that in your column you mix two different subjects and in doing so you miss the main point:
you speak as if the neo-stalinists in Russia were GUILTY of CAUSING terrorism.
You, and the whole West, must understand that the WORLD-WIDE jihad will not be stopped by any form of appeasement and did not start because WE (or the Russian) did something: it has gone on for 1400 years and it stopped only when islam was technologically handicapped (and even then, not completely).
The muslims want to conquer the world and will not stop until they are defeated or until they win.
Mixing this point (that you don’t seem to understand anyway) with Putin’s and his friends’ neo-stalinism means that you end up with justifying the bloody islamist killers.
The fact that you want to criticize the neo-stalinists is something that you should keep separate from the discussion about the world-wide jihad.
The enemies of your enemies are not in any way your friends, nor mine.
It is indeed tragic what happened at Park Kulturny and other sites yesterday, I hope those who ordered that attack be hunted down and eliminated. But it is
ironic how so many chose to reproach Israel for their alleged involvement in the Mabhouh it, than a similar event that Putin presided against Zandabichev
in Doha, nearly six years ago. And their outrage over Gitmo and Abu Ghraib was
dialed up to eleventy
The only reason this article seems anti-Russian is because most of what it says is true. Russia’s 200+ years adventure in the Caucausus has continued to fail. Those of you who think that it is simply “crazy Islamic terrorists” attacking innocent Russia are mistaken. People who try to connect worldwide Jihad to the war in Chechnya as one of the main causes of violence know so little about the history of the region and its wars that it’s laughable. This Islamic element only increased as Russia continued its brutal policies that put a maniac like Kadyrov in place. This is a man who kills all of his opponents including a journalist I knew. The biggest irony is that most Chechens and Muslims in Russia, like my wife, are very secular. The other irony is that Putin’s man Kadyrov has been trying to impose Islamic law on the region in order to control society. As a result, he has meet wide resistance from many secular Chechens. Zigfeld is not “dancing on the graves of anyone” by writing this article, especially given the fact that Putin is so gifted at using such tragic events to his own advantage. Nor is this article “anti-Russian” it is anti-Putin and against his failed policies.
People who think Madrid, London and now Moscow attacks are from the same root are truly mistaken.
People from North Caucasus fight for freedom and killings and torture by FSB and Russian special forces is not excuseable. For those forces its just norm and technique to crash the rebels by any unhuman mean possible.
Like the al Qaeda terrorists who murdered thousands of innocent civilians on 9/11, the Chechen terrorists are funded and staffed mostly by Saudis. From “The Hindu Times:
“The school hostage-taking raid in Beslan, southern Russia…was financed by a Saudi militant, the Russian military has said.
“Abu Hafs, a Saudi national, funded the siege in North Ossetia and a foiled terror strike in Dagestan, another region neighbouring Chechnya. Abu Hafs has replaced Abu al-Walid, a Saudi killed earlier this year, as the foreign fund-raiser for Chechen rebels. Russian sources said the two Saudis and Omar Ibn al-Khattab, a warlord killed in Chechnya in 2002 met Osama bin Laden. In the early 1990s, the three militants fought in Tajikistan before Osama ordered them to move to Chechnya.”
Chechen “rebels” phoned the Gulf during the Moscow Theater siege.
Like al Qaeda and most Sunni-based terrorism worldwide, the Chechen ‘resistance’ is a Saudi operation. Our government and our press will tell you that the Saudis are an important ally in our war against terrorism. The fact that they’re the world’s largest supporters of terrorism is not usually mentioned.
Russia supports Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the Saudis fear Iran’s nuclear ambitions, and “we” (ie, the US state department and government) ally with the Saudis. Who, along with the other usual-but-rarely-mention ally/suspects in Pakistan support the Chechen rebellion.
Our press, following leads given to them by Saudi funded universities and our government, says what they’re supposed to say. After an attack on Russia, they criticize Russian security and corruption, and warn that any retaliation will lead to a cycle of violence.
The cycle of violence comes from western government alliances with terror supporting states, and the willingness to tolerate the actions of these terror-supporting states when we think they’re ‘on our side’. This cycle is not going to stop until the soft targets decide to tell their leaders that they want to stop being cannon fodder in the great game.
The Russian people don’t really have the power of the vote, but we do.
A Russian employed by the Moscow Carnegie Center agrees whole-heartedly with the views I’ve expressed here. I find that encouraging:
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/the-terrorism-hydra/402904.html
The danger to the Sochi games is clear, as the writer points out that the facilities are being built on land that the rebels consider holy ground. It is a nightmare waiting to happen, and those who turn a blind eye are contributing to wholesale slaughter.
You are talking about a nation that all-out flattened the jihad. While your nation attacked the WRONG nations in respite for an inside job on Rothchilds/Vatican property. The MT is famous for empty articles devoid of details and predication. Instead they cater to empty-headed westerners. Moreover you quoted some employee for the Carnegie Foundation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Rothchilds/Vatican who are far greater terrorists than autonomous Islamic fanatics. They staged the apartment bombings through their KGB in Moscow. Are your implying that the 18million the Vatican burned alive in WWII was not terrorism? Is it not terrorism when the Catholics do it?
If you actually researched instead of parroting, you might learn that Catholicism and Islam are Abrahamic religions ordained by Constantine in 325AD. He changed Rome from a liberal, tolerant polytheist empire to a fascist, monotheist epicenter of corruption and decay. Monotheism is why Rome fell. The Vatican and Islam are two great counter-reformation powerhouses of the Unenlightment, who only desire unthinking, compliant serfs trodden over by an elite aristocracy.
the beslan horror was like nothing less than the most sickening nazi killings. the children were murdered along with the mothers and kept hostage for days.
a terror supporting state like saudi arabia is the funder along with their partner iran for all the heinous murders by these deranged muslims who seem to be everywhere, infecting everything.
our moronic, malignent narcisstic president made sure to bow very low to the saudi schmuck. maybe he was hoping to give him a bj.
the russians have every reason to “pull them up from the sewer”. it would make sense for them to declare those intentions on the saudis as well as iran.
Well, actually a North Ossetian parliamentary investigation into the Beslan siege (Beslan is in North Ossetia) concluded that the vast overwhelming majority of casualties were caused by the Russian security forces, doing things like firing incendiary rockets into a gym full of hostages.
I am not sure where you get the “teachers and students raped” by Besayev from, there is no record of that in any account I have seen.
Please also remember that Besayev was a Russian hero a few years before for his massacre of Georgian civilians in Abkhazia, particularly the Gagra massacre, where Russian, Abkhazian, and Chechen volunteers herded the Georgian and pro Georgian Apsu population into the football stadium and killed them all, men women and children.
The behavior of Russia in Chechnya is the same as Nazi Germany, with “filtration” camps, where thousands disappeared, people held to ransom, and families forced to pay for the return of the dead regardless of their innocence or guilt.
Unfortunately it is a historical fact that Russia as a state cares nothing for the lives of innocent people, their own nor anybody else’s.
Russia has been committing crimes in the Caucasus for over 200 years, against all of the local inhabitants, be they Christian, Jewish, or Muslim.
As for “Count Nukem” well tosser, the difference is that in Afghanistan the US/NATO make a great effort to avoid civilian casualties, while the Russian military considers that raping, murdering and looting are part of the fun.
>Well, actually a North Ossetian parliamentary investigation into the Beslan siege
>(Beslan is in North Ossetia) concluded that the vast overwhelming majority of \
>casualties were caused by the Russian security forces, doing things like firing
>incendiary rockets into a gym full of hostages.
You lied outright. like a terrorist sympathizer. From Washington Post Torshin, who is deputy speaker of the upper house of parliament, dismissed a number of claims made after the siege, including a statement that Russian tanks fired on the school while hostages were still inside. He said flamethrowers used by FSB units at the scene did not cause the fire that swept the school at the end of the siege. And he ruled out the possibility that a Russian sniper had shot a terrorist and set off the first explosion when the terrorist’s foot fell off a pedal, triggering the bomb.
Torshin said the commission had not yet established exactly what set off the explosion, which led security forces and residents to storm the building in what proved to be a chaotic and bloody ending to the siege.
He said the security services had failed to create an effective cordon around the school, which allowed residents, some of them firing weapons, to break through police lines to try to save their children. While the anguish of parents was understandable, he said, it hampered an effective police operation.
Muslim rapists and pedophiles are well-organised and these predators often hunt their prey in rape-gangs in a tradition of Muslim razzia going back to the ‘prophet’. The reason for this cultural difference is that pedophilia and rape are abhorrent in civilised societies, but are socially acceptable to Muslim communities because the perps are dutifully following Mohammed’s example – and Mohammed is the ‘Perfect Man’ . Kuffar women and children (uncovered meat) are there for the taking.
From the days of Prophet Muhammad, sexual terror has been an integral part of Islamic Jihad. The siege of the Beslan School by Islamic Jihadis in 2004 was no exception.
Child-rape, as well as being a permitted means of satisfying the jihadists’ religiously repressed lusts, also degrades, violates and humiliates the hated ‘najis kafir’ children and their parents, thus asserting the supremacy of Islam and Muslims. Forcing them to drink urine reinforces their filthy ‘najis’ status.
“Five years ago Muslim extremists invaded a school in Beslan, Russia. These Muslim terrorists held over a thousand people, most of them children, hostage. For three days these Muslim terrorists killed and tortured countless victims. Children were shot for crying. Teachers and parents were shot for trying to calm the hostages. Young girls were gang raped. Young girls were raped with gun barrels and other objects. Many young girls did not survive these rapes. Children were forced to drink their own urine before being executed. The list of inhuman acts committed by these Muslim animals is as nothing I have ever heard before.
Beslan: They knifed babies, they raped girls
“THE full horror of the Russian school atrocity began to emerge yesterday as traumatised children told horrific tales of stabbed babies and brutal rapes. It has also emerged that scores of the 323 who died – including many children – had been shot in the back. While despairing soldiers and rescue workers moved among the growing pile of body bags, it was revealed that an 18-month-old baby had been repeatedly stabbed by a black-clad terrorist who had run out of ammunition.
Other survivors told how screaming teenage girls were dragged into rooms adjoining the gymnasium where they were being held and raped by their Chechen captors who chillingly made a video film of their appalling exploits. They said children were forced to drink their own urine and eat the petals off the flowers they had brought their teachers after nearly three days without food or water in the stifling hot gym.
Allah Akhbar!
“According to The New York Times, when the terrorists took over the Russian elementary school, they shouted “Allahu akbar” (Allah is Great). [...] They would make several sips of urine and then would stop and cry because their lips were chapped and the urine stung their skin.” Indira Dzetskelova, the mother of one of the child hostages in Beslan , Russia , reports that “several 15-year-old girls were raped by terrorists.” Her daughter “heard their terrible cries and screams when those monsters took them away.” Her traumatised daughter Dzerase sobbed as she added: “When the assault started, some of us were running out through the school dining room. “The terrorists started to shoot from the roof, then one of them ran into the dining room and started to shoot from the window. “I saw kids and women falling to the ground. And I saw that vermin’s face. I saw his smile as he killed my friends.” Diana Gadzhieva, 14, was held with her sister Akinba, aged 11. She told how the rebels executed all the adult men in a room upstairs. “We saw groups of men hostages going out and never coming back.” Other survivors told how screaming teenage girls were dragged into rooms adjoining the gymnasium where they were being held and raped by their Chechen captors. Witnesses reported that a black-clad terrorist who had run out of ammunition had repeatedly stabbed even an 18-month-old baby.
http://www.wikiislam.com/wiki/Images:Beslan
Beslan was clearly a sexual homicide/sexual suicide. That is, the offenders wanted more than simple terrorism. Some of the terrorists at Beslan were hired guns who did not plan on dying that day. They had not thought things through and did not realize that the Russians would not let them out alive. Then, once they were inside, and the realization dawned on them, plans changed.
Things had deteriorated when the media reported that there were only 354 victims. Wanting to have a dramatic impact, the terrorists exploded with anger. There were 1200 victims, and the Russians were trying to down play the incident. The terrorists said they would have to eliminate victims to fit with what the media had reported. Their demeanor worsened, and they got really mean.
It was then that they began raping the girls. They wanted sex as they killed, and this is sexual homicide. A sex killer gets excited when he thinks about forcing himself inside an unwilling victim, but the rape itself does not produce the ultimate excitement. It is the rape followed by the killing that is arousing. This is what happened at Beslan.
One by one, females were targeted. The sex killers looked for the perfect victims, and after zeroing in, they grabbed and disrobed the little girls in the middle of the gym. There were muffled cries as the girls were humiliated in front of everyone. They were stripped, raped, and sodomized by several men. Not content to simply rape, the terrorists used their guns and other objects to penetrate the screaming victims while the other hostages were forced to watch. And the terrorists laughed. They laughed as they violated the children and made them bleed. What few people know is that some of the girls died as a result of being raped with objects. The internal damage was so severe that without immediate medical attention, the girls bled to death. Those who managed to survive required extensive reconstructive surgery and painful recoveries.
But raping the girls was not enough for the deviants who had entered the school. The terrorists beat the other children. In fact, beatings took place regularly, and as they pummeled the little ones, the terrorists smiled and laughed. It was said that they would strike a child and then watch the child cringe. When the youngsters recoiled, their captors laughed. This says the offenders enjoyed inflicting the suffering. They wanted their victims to suffer. Such behavior is sadistic. Bringing others pain brings the sadist pleasure. And the terrorists tortured the victims in many ways.
Along with causing paralyzing fear, the terrorists had an ally in the weather. It was extremely hot outside, but the school had no working air conditioner. As the heat raged, the hostages begged for water, and at first, some was given. Time crept on, and the terrorists became increasingly cruel. They drank in front of the hostages and mocked the children who were crying out for water. Things got so bad that the victims were forced to drink their own urine. In some cases, the hostages poured urine over one another in a feeble attempt to keep cool. Seeing the suffering enhanced the joy of the perpetrators. In a twisted, ghoulish game, the terrorists put water in front of the children who were desperately thirsty and told them if they reached for the water, they would be killed.
Still, this horror wasn’t enough for the hostage takers. Raping, beating, torturing, and mocking were just not evil enough. Thus, to further frighten the victims, one terrorist stated “we came here to die.” Russian Tagirovich Khuchbarov was called the “colonel.” When the children asked for water or to use the restroom, he simply stated “I’m not your uncle, I’m a terrorist … I came here to kill.” Up until this point, the hostages most likely believed they could survive, but then…hearing these words…it meant they were to die too. This surely would have made the victims scream in their minds. If they cried out loud, they risked being beaten or shot.
As a crowd gathered outside the school, several terrorists goaded the townspeople. It was said that they “took delight” in egging the crowd on. They fired shots. They taunted. And again, they laughed. This psychopathic, sadistic behavior continued into the night as they ordered hostages to throw naked dead bodies out to the west yard. Yet, the Russian government did not want to negotiate with these offenders. Russian officials knew what they were dealing with: men intent on murder. However, in any hostage event, negotiations are necessary, but negotiations at Beslan were very difficult. When offered food, the terrorists refused because they feared poisoning. They had learned from Nord Ost and other terrorist standoffs. They would not make the same mistakes at Beslan.
Knowing that the elite Alpha and Vympel (Russia Special forces) would be called, the terrorists made it clear that if gas was used or electricity shut off, they would kill hostages immediately. The offenders had studied prior attacks and Russian counteroffensive techniques. So, they knew that Russia would stop at nothing to end the siege. With this knowledge, the terrorists had brought amphetamines with them to help stave off fatigue. This made them more wild and unpredictable. At one point, the terrorists allowed some hostages to leave. They told some mothers that they could get out with their babies and leave behind an older child or stay with both children. Those who left a child behind will certainly be tormented for the rest of their lives. At least one child who had been left behind survived the ordeal. One can only imagine that she could develop feelings of anger and maybe even hatred for the parent who abandoned her with psychopathic sexual sadists.
The rusophobe fascist kim zig-hail does it again and pajamasmedia editors endorse it. Here how it goes:
When an islamozazi nutjob blows NYC towers pajamasmedia rightly sees it as terrorism and is ready to argue against American left who say that US had deserved it because of US foreign policies.
When an islamozazi nutjob blows a Russian subway, pajamasmedia and fascist kim zig-hail see it as something which Russia had deserved because of Russias policies, just as Russian left see it.
When US forces in Afghanistan make a mistake and 30 civilians got bombed and die pajamasmedia understands that that was a mistake, while all US left shout about US war crimes.
When Russian forces in Chechnya make a mistake and 30 civilians die pajamasmedia and fascist kim zig-hail sees as war crime, just as Russian left see it.
Kim and the editors of pjmedia:
you are no better than the left and you are no conservatives. It is because of dishonest “conservative thinkers” like you are and your roten morals we brought on ourselves Obama, the antichrist. Because people looked at you kind and they think that a student of Saul Alinsky must be more honest than you are. The gey Obama is more straight than you are. He got there as a punishment for the dishonesty of your kind, but now even the rest of us have to suffer.
>>24. Shef Rogers: It’s time for PJM to stop running Zigfeld’s columns. She, or he, or it, is a deeply sick individual whose only passion is hatred of all Russians.
Count Nukem: Amen Shef. Sometimes Kim can make valid points regarding Russian problems e.g. crime, racism and possible dangers associated with having Olympics in Sochi. But because of her hatered for everyting Russian she does not see what everyone else can see: Russia is not a nice place, but it is not the reason why islamonazi blow up their trains. They blow up Russian trains for the same reasons why they kill US service men in Ford Hood or kill civilians in Iraq. valerie #23 eplained it in the best possible way. I wonder why Kim does not see the obvious and write articles which only a moral pervert or a deranged left liberal would write. Perhaps it is a result of some of her personal experience in Russia.
Kim: I know that Russia is a criminal paradise almost as nasty as Mexico. If you traveled to Russia, was abused there by a crimional or by a burocrate and got a psychological problem I can sympathize with you. But please, do not mix your personal pain with objective political commentary which your articles pretend to be. I do not ask you to be a saint and forgive the person who abused you. But, could you at least forgive those Russian people who did not do anything to you and whose only fault that they happen to be Russians.
3@judy, nyc
At least the Nazis, cold Catholic bastards they were, gave the immolated and gassed some chocolate bars prior their extermination. The children and teachers raped under Basayev only had death for kindness. My Muslim friends want these bombers dead badly enough to take them out themselves. It’s a crime against all Russians and Georgia does not stand apart, as Kim Zigfeld implies. Georgians can be very cruel mafiosi but they are not terrorists.
So yet again Chechens prove to be the cause of more deaths in my city. Meanwhile Zigfeld attempts to place blame on the victims themselves. I took that metro twice daily. She makes a pathetic display of ethnocentrism and bullying, and inhuman sensitivity to persons simply trying to live their lives. I would enjoy giving Mrs. Zigfeld a tour of her beloved territories and introduce her to the fine people whom she loves so much. After all, the Chechen economy was in large part funded by kidnapping ransom monies. Mrs. Zigfeld can proudly assist the Chechen free market and bolster this growth sector with her fine writings, so long as they fit on the back of the ransom note.