The Beslan Siege

The Beslan Siege

Spetsnaz Attempted to Rescue of 1100+ Women and Children Held By Islamic Terrorists. The Terrorists Murdered and Wounded Most of the Innocent Women and Children. Russian TranslationAt approximately 08-00 local time on Wednesday, September 1, 2004, a group of Islamic men and women armed with assault rifles and grenade launchers seized school No.1 in the town of Beslan in North Ossetia.After a brief shootout, the attackers forced the children and teachers inside the school and announced that they were being held hostage. 1 September The gunmen call for talks with the presidents of§ North Ossetia and Ingushetia and renowned doctor Leonid Roshal. § Hostage-takers, numbering between 17 and 40, threatened to kill 50 children for every militant killed. Nearly 50 children manage to escape. Gunmen set§ free 15 more. President Putin breaks off his vacation and returns to§ Moscow. Representative of Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov denies§ involvement by forces loyal to him. Russian authorities get in contact§ with attackers. Gunmen refuse to pass food, water and medicines to the hostages. 2 September A government source revealed the exact number of hostages§ for the first time since the crisis, putting the number at 354 (It was not true. All in Beslan know that the number of hostages is more than 1200 persons). § Schoolchildren held hostage report by phone that they are coping and that the conditions are “tolerable”. Captors free several women and young children,§ the news agencies reported. The number of released hostages varies from six to 26. 3 SeptemberThe psychopathic Muslims then murdered over fifty children. When the Islamic gunmen allowed the bodies to be carried out of the school and the emergency officials started to recover them, the attackers blew up their explosives. It was at 13.05. Storming started… Beslan: failures : A Critique By RussiansAndrei Soldatov, Irina Borogan / Agentura.Ru /The main mistake of storm in Beslan is that Osetian militia and paramilitary forces took part in this battle. Because it became battle in the city, not a special operation. Now it is some kind of official point of view of Russian secret services. But we can’t accuse local people in failure of special forces operation. The main problem in Beslan was fact, what FSB and MVD has given a management of operation to local authorities.For these cases FSB has operational-tactical plan called “Nabat”. According to this plan, chief of local FSB division becomes chief of antiterrorist operation staff. But for last five years FSB never gave this role to local FSB generals. In September 2000, when three bandits have grasped hostages some local people in village near Sochi (on Black Sea), two top officers from FSB and MVD were named chiefs of operational staff - deputy minister of internal affairs Kozlov and deputy director of FSB, chief of antiterrorist department Ugrumov.Two years later, in Moscow, special services have repeated this scheme: deputy minister of internal affairs Vasiliev and deputy director of FSB Pronichev have headed a staff in Dubrovka. Now FSB officers talk us, that absence of Moscow generals in Beslan is only result of Nord-Ost storm. Nobody wants to take the responsibility, when only one child victim will be the failure of whole operation. In this case plan Nabat was very convenient. General Andreev, chief of Osetian division of FSB, was named as chief of operational staff, and after that Beslan became local problem.But in his level he can’t provide perimeter of safety around the school. We saw units from non-osetian regions in Beslan only after storm. Perimeter was provided by local militia troops, and it was vary naïve to think this people can stop parents of hostages.In reality, local militia not only not stop civilian, but provide journalists to area near school. Day before storm one of Osetian officers lead us on the positions of his troop - in 30 meters right from school, where we can see murdered hostages. Terrorists have thrown out many children’s bodies out from windows. He said: - Please, take pictures. Please, write about it. Authorities assert, that they hold only 300 hostages. We all know it’s not true, they hold more than 1100 people. We don’t want Nord-Ost.In day of storm special operation units of FSB (Alfa and Vimpel) were not prepared to storm. In 13.05, when assault started, some units were far away from Beslan. They found the similar school in one of small town in this region and they have been fulfilling coordination in the fight. It’s normal practices for our special forces. Some officers of Alfa and Vimpel (Spetsnaz) were near school, but they have been only holding observant points. So, some of officers were without bullet-proof vests.The first explosion has broken windows of a sports hall, and children have seen chance to escape. They have run, and Islamic terrorists began to shoot many more children in the back. Today it is difficult to understand, who the first began to shoot - militia or special services. But after that operation of special forces became city battle. We never forget, how one of local people shouted near 14.00: - We need the hunting cartridges, please, find it! In this moment battle was not only in the school. It was some kind of guerrilla war, because shooting went in area around. Some people have been shooting, some searching terrorist informers. We saw how two soldiers found woman in white. They decided she is terrorist. Only fast occurrence of her husband has rescued her.In first hour after storm began the staff was unlikely to manage the situation. In 14.00 we sow how president of South Osetia Eduard Kokoity (he went to Beslan in first day) ordered about soldiers a cordon. He was president of other country, but he was one of the people, who made of the decision in staff. And nobody wondered it.Almost three hours local troops have been hunting one after another. Last explosion were in 23.15. It was the tank. It shot on last alive three insurgents who sat in a cellar. It was collapse of special services and central authorities. 32 insane Islamic killers initially seized 1300+Ø hostages. They murdered 385 of them including 190 children.Ø AnotherØ 800+ innocent civilians and children were wounded of missing (blown to mist by Islamic bombs).“There is only one effective answer to Islamic terror, torture (for intelligence purposes) and/or liquidation of terrorists and their entire families. Those agencies, nations or individuals, not hard enough to be more “terror-able” than fanatic Islamic terrorists, will be annihilated or enslaved. Effeminate bureaucrats and over-grown “play fair” advocates are useless in antiterror war. It is absurd for people to shrug off terrorist atrocities and then demand that they be met by silly rules of engagement or invented laws of war that ‘protect the rights of terrorists.’ War is a beastly business, adapt or die.”—Breaker McCoy, www.quikmaneuvers.com