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September 09, 2004
10 Russian School Terrorists Identified
Russian security officials identified 10 of the Beslan school hostage-takers Thursday, confirming that six of them came from the breakaway republic of Chechnya.

Four others were from Ingushetia, the republic bordering North Ossetia, where last week's siege that ended in the deaths of at least 326 children and adults took place.

So far, regional security sources have not provided any information to back up Russian President Vladimir Putin's earlier allegation that about 10 of the approximately 30 hostage-takers were "Arabs" from the Middle East and might have been linked to al-Qaeda.

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Posted by Michele at September 9, 2004 02:11 PM | TrackBack
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Gosh! Not an actual Ayrab to be found?

Strange! And here folks were So Certain.

Posted by: Don [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 9, 2004 07:07 PM

And here you are gloating when the identity of 2/3 of them have yet to be revealed. You're all in before the flop.

Shrewd, my faux-veteran friend, very shrewd.

Then again, given your credibility, you've got nothing to lose, so maybe this is a good gamble . . . for you.

Posted by: TL [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 9, 2004 07:15 PM

only 10 of 30 identified and don`s rushing to say "told you so"? i think you`re getting a little ahead of yourself.

if/when they id the other 20 and find arabs among them and you say "they were planted by putin", then i`ll KNOW you`re full of crap. until then, i`ll just assume you are...

Posted by: realiberal [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 10, 2004 02:12 AM

Let's wait until they identify ALL of the terrorists, as well as the people who trained them, armed them and led them. They did seem to follow al-qaida training and MO exactly.

Posted by: BattleofthePyramids [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 10, 2004 02:40 AM

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