From the BBC:
Russian prosecutors say they have arrested four people in connection with the school siege in Beslan last year, which left more than 330 people dead.
Deputy Prosecutor General Nikolai Shepel said the four were suspected of helping plan the siege in North Ossetia and other attacks in Ingushetia.
He said five other suspects were killed as they resisted arrest.
A BBC regional analyst says the Russian authorities are keen to show they are in control in the region.
Mr Shepel did not say when or where the latest arrests took place.
“These people helped prepare the terrorist act in Beslan,” he said.
The three-day siege of the Beslan school ended on 3 September last year in chaotic, bloody scenes.
About 330 of the 1,000 pupils and adults taken hostage died in explosions and gun battles between the attackers and Russian security forces outside the building.
Officials say one hostage-taker was arrested and the other 31 died.
As far as I’m concerned, it’s a shame all 9 didn’t resist arrest.
They may yet be fatally injured trying to escape,we hope.
Hear, hear! They should be given the same trial that they gave their 300+ innocent victims.
“As far as I’m concerned, it’s a shame all 9 didn’t resist arrest.”
“Well, Your Honor, this one fell up the stairs, this one tripped over a garden rake, and as for this guy, he was shot in the back accidentally….twenty-two times.”
(w/ apologies to Richard Pryor)
keyword, “bad”
To keep with the spirit here, I usually try to add something funny or irreverant, but allow me to be serious for a moment…
Columbine taught us that schools are vulnerable to even the most amateurish of attacks. Today, police SWAT units train to react to another Columbine, but in their training, they consider it a success if they limit the carnage to one classroom–IOW, 25-40 dead kids. I don’t know about the rest of you, but this is unacceptable.
When you look at the laws related to Concealed Carry–even in the most gun-free of states– carrying a gun onto school property is illegal. That law-abiding teachers, staff, and visitors who have fulfilled their state’s requirements to carry a gun, cannot do so legally on school property is setting us up for another Beslan.
I promise that my next comment will be irreverant.
Never thought I’d ever be in a position to hope that there are enough former KGB still around in Mother Russia to “question” suspects with . . . vigor.
Any truth to the rumor that during the attack one of the terrorists escaped and was left to the not-so-tender mercies of the local parents? I’ve always liked that story.
I totally disagree Jeff.
They should be locked in a Siberian prison, stripped naked, dehydrated to the point that they are forced to drink their own urine. Then they should be forced listen the rape of their fellow terrorists in the next room. In a perfectly sick world these terrorists would be reverted back to the days they were eight years old and have to live their entire lives with that greasy film on their memory they can never quite scrub off.
Ah fuck it, they should have all resisted you’re right.
…or, they could be a bunch of terrorist stooges whacked by the Russians to make it look like they were actually doing something…
Not that there’s anything WRONG with that.
Attila Girl,
I think all the ex-KGB guys are over here running Hometown Buffets now.. but I’m pretty sure Jon Idema is still in Kabul and available for short term ‘contract consultant’ work.. Jon knows ‘vigor’.. He’s available through an ad in the back Soldier of Fiction Magazine I believe.
If he’s booked they might try that Lyndie Englund chick.. you know.. dykie hair..cig hanging out the corner of her mouth at Abu Ghraib.. She’s kind of unpredictable though.. a loose cannon.. More than once she’s overstepped ‘the line’ and put panties on prisoners heads. She can be reach through the Ft. Leavenworth, KS Military Correction Center for Wayward Girls.
-BPiS
Alan Turing Word: Point
As in: is there one?
I was thinking of something a little more, um, rigorous than the Lynddie England treatment.
Disclaimers: yes, I believe in the rule of law. No, I don’t generally support vigilante justice. Yes, I am supposed to be some sort of sorry excuse for a half-assed Christian.
But in the middle of the night, when there’s no one else around, I want these people to suffer.
Perhaps someday I’ll transcend that. But not tonight.
Oddly, I would prefer that they didn’t resist arrest…and that they lead productive, useful lives…until they coughed up every one of their financiers, suppliers, contacts, supporters, collaborators, and co-conspirators and every scrap of knowledge about the strategies and tactics of their fellows—after which they might “fall down flights of stairs” for a few weeks before they “try to escape.”
But, then, I’m a softie.
All nine should have surrendered to the tender mercies of ex-militia and ex-KGB “investigators”