gzt.ru

Uri Baluevski (Russian minister of defense?) has stated that Russia reserves the right to conduct pre emptive strikes on terrorists camps in any part of the world. Nuclear weapons will not be used, he said.

gzt.ru

FSB will pay out 300 million roubles (slightly over $10 million) for accurate infortmation regarding the where abouts of Shamil Basayev and Aslan Maskhadov.

24 hour Hotlines

in Moscow: 914-43-69
in Chechen Republic: 8-8712-222-762, 8-928-290-06-10, 8-8712-222-510.

Jerusalem Post

Child survivors of last week's terror attack on a Russian school are to be airlifted to Israel for treatment at facilities specializing in such care.

The children and their mothers will be flown here by the Michael Cherney Fund, which was created after the Dolphinarium suicide bomb attack in Tel Aviv, which killed 20 teenagers and wounded over 100 in 2001. The Fund also helped the victims of a May 2002 bombing in south Russia, where 10 children were killed and many more wounded.

Some background information from www.newsinfo.ru

Since the beginning of the Second Chechen War (since 1999):

- there have been 36 terrorists acts in Russia, which resulted in 1,397 dead and 1750 injured.

- Russian military casualties: 4,500 dead, 15,000 wounded (those are official numbers, non official 11,000 dead, 25,000 wounded)

- 3,500 children died in Chechnya, 2,500 missing civilians (non officla number of dead 20,000). Official number of rebels killed: 15,000.

The graph above represents russian casualties of terrorism (dead and wounded) from 1999 to 2004.


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Basayev's mouthpiece, kavkazcenter.com/russ ,just receieved a statement from the "Anti-terrorist Center of Chechnya", declaring a $20 million bounty on Putin's head. The money is offered to any country, organization or an individual who will assist them in apprehending Putin.

Putin is labeled as a "war criminal" whose crimes allegedly include:

- starting the criminal war against the sovereign state of Chechnya
- organizing mass murder of hundreds thousands of Chechen civilians, incuding several tens of thousands of children.
- creating a torture conveyor under the guise of the so called filtration camps.
- mass kidnappings and extra-judicial executions
- a number of provocations designed to discredit the freedom fighting Chechens, including the blood bath in Beslan.
- creating bandit bands - "Escadrons of Death" who are terrorizing Chechen civilians
- full and/or partial destruction of Chechen cities and towns
- genocide

Ok, very interesting stuff. Most of it is very predictible PR - they are even up to date with the accusation regarding the "blood bath in Beslan". What I, personally, find interesting is the first item on that list:

- starting the criminal war against the sovereign state of Chechnya

This is important, because they are acknowledging the fact that they had independence prior to their attack on Dagestan in 1999. It would be interesting to see how they would justify the invasion of Dagestan (Russia) by the "sovereign state of Chechnya". I've never seen any attempts at a justification, but if someone has a link - please post.

Possible Beslan II prevented in St.Petersburg?

Short video clip from the tape made by the terrorists.

(hat tip Olka)

kp.ru

Some of the teachers from Beslan's school #1

Nadezhda Tsaloeva (teacher) - second row, 3rd from the left (wearing glasses) - MISSING ( and so are her 2 children)
Darina Alikova (teacher) - second row, 4th from the left - MISSING
Lidia Tslieva (school's principal) - second row, 6th from the left - WOUNDED
Raisa (secretary) - second row, rightmost. - MISSING
Albin Alikova - first row, second from the left - MISSING

Ludmila Kokova - second row, 2nd from the right. Ludmila and her daughter (who teaches at the same school) were not
in school on September 1st, as they were in mourning due to the death of the daughter's husband who died the day before.