Hostage Crisis Unfolds in Russia as Guerrillas Seize School

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Armed Attackers Seize School in Russia

Armed Attackers Seize School in Russia 09/01/2004 04:06 AM
More than a dozen attackers wrapped in suicide-bomb belts were holding hundreds of hostages at a school in the city of Beslan today, news reports said.

Insurgents Seize School in Russia and
Hold Scores

Insurgents Seize School in Russia and
Hold Scores 09/02/2004 12:32 AM
Heavily armed insurgents seized a school in southern Russia and threatened to kill scores of schoolchildren, parents and teachers.

Insurgents Seize Russian School; Scores
Hostage

Insurgents Seize Russian School; Scores
Hostage 09/01/2004 10:41 PM
Heavily armed insurgents seized a school in southern Russia and threatened to kill scores of schoolchildren, parents and teachers.

Hundreds Held Hostage in Russia School
(AP)

Hundreds Held Hostage in Russia School
(AP) 09/01/2004 03:55 AM
AP - Armed attackers, some wearing suicide-bomb belts, seized a school Wednesday in a Russian region bordering Chechnya and were holding hundreds of children and adults hostage, news reports said. The assault came a day after a suicide bomber killed 10 people in Moscow.

Russia school hostage-takers' cues
derived from chilling online playbook

Russia school hostage-takers' cues
derived from chilling online playbook 09/04/2004 06:28 AM
Worldnetdaily.com - Sat Sep 4, 05:40 am GMT

Russia Admits It Lied On Crisis
(washingtonpost.com)

Russia Admits It Lied On Crisis
(washingtonpost.com) 09/05/2004 11:39 PM
washingtonpost.com - MOSCOW, Sept. 5 -- The Russian government admitted Sunday that it lied to its people about the scale of the hostage crisis that ended with more than 300 children, parents and teachers dead in southern Russia, making an extraordinary admission through state television after days of intense criticism from citizens.

Iraq Hostage Crisis Spirals

Iraq Hostage Crisis Spirals 07/25/2004 04:11 AM
Reuters via Wired News Jul 25 2004 7:30AM GMT

Japan seeks end to hostage crisis

Japan seeks end to hostage crisis 04/09/2004 11:53 PM
A senior Japanese official arrives in Jordan to co-ordinate efforts to rescue three citizens caught in Iraq.

US warns Manila on hostage crisis

US warns Manila on hostage crisis 07/13/2004 11:48 AM
The Bush administration urges the Philippines not to bow to pressure from kidnappers to pull troops out of Iraq early.

Abe wants to revise Constitution to use
SDF in hostage crisis

Abe wants to revise Constitution to use
SDF in hostage crisis 04/12/2004 12:56 AM

Japan Today

Abe wants to revise Constitution to use SDF in hostage crisis

Monday, April 12, 2004 at 06:47 JST
TOKYO — Shinzo Abe, secretary general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, called Sunday for amending the Constitution to enable the government to mobilize the Self-Defense Forces in such eventualities as the current hostage crisis in Iraq.

Obviously the US doesn't have a monopoly on using tragedies and fear to push their political agenda. I personally am not against revising the constitution and I can see how it makes "political sense" to do it now, but it still bugs me. People make such stupid laws when they're emotional.

Crisis Grips Kyrgyzstan; Ousted Chief Is
in Russia

Crisis Grips Kyrgyzstan; Ousted Chief Is
in Russia 03/26/2005 04:47 PM
Members of Kyrgyzstan's old and newly elected Parliament competed for power in the wake of the ouster of President Askar Akayev, who was reported to be in Russia.

3 Flee After Hostage Crisis (Los Angeles
Times)

3 Flee After Hostage Crisis (Los Angeles
Times) 05/31/2004 07:06 AM
Los Angeles Times - RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — After killing at least 22 mostly foreign civilians and trapping dozens of people in a 25-hour hostage standoff, three Islamist militants managed Sunday to steal a car, disappear into rush-hour traffic and slip out of the grip of hundreds of Saudi commandos.

Iraq Hostage Crisis Spirals (Reuters)

Iraq Hostage Crisis Spirals (Reuters) 07/25/2004 02:43 AM
Reuters - Two Pakistanis working for a Kuwait-based company were missing and feared kidnapped in Iraq on Sunday, as the country's hostage crisis deepened with at least 22 countries so far affected.

Arizona Prison Officer Freed in Hostage
Crisis

Arizona Prison Officer Freed in Hostage
Crisis 01/24/2004 10:38 PM
Reuters via Wired News Jan 25 2004 2:37AM GMT

Heavy Clashes in Iraq; Hostage Crisis
Spirals

Heavy Clashes in Iraq; Hostage Crisis
Spirals 07/25/2004 10:46 AM
Reuters via Wired News Jul 25 2004 1:39PM GMT

French Hostage Crisis Adds Tension to
Headscarf Ban

French Hostage Crisis Adds Tension to
Headscarf Ban 08/29/2004 07:12 AM
Reuters via Wired News Aug 29 2004 10:33AM GMT

Iraq Hostage Crisis Unites France Behind
Law (Reuters)

Iraq Hostage Crisis Unites France Behind
Law (Reuters) 08/30/2004 05:00 AM
Reuters - French critics and defenders of a ban on Muslim headscarves in schools united in support of the law on Monday, pledging to stand firm against militants holding two French journalists hostage in Iraq who want the law scrapped.

Government trying to use hostage crisis
to squash NGO's in Japan

Government trying to use hostage crisis
to squash NGO's in Japan 05/11/2004 10:54 AM

The Japan Times

Kidnap crisis poses a new risk

In Japan's case, laws are being proposed to punish those entering designated "danger zones" without an official reason.

Victims -- or their families -- will foot the bill for their rescue, which will amount to airfare, if not more. "This is standard practice for mountain rescues," one line of reasoning goes.

But consider two things: One is that an aid mission to a danger zone is not a forest stroll gone astray. The very comparison indicates a misunderstanding of what aid missions do.

The second is policy overstretch and political abuse. This law would place a degree of government control over aid organizations, something many don't want. Particularly NGOs (by very the nature of their title) eschew government support, especially when they take on problems governments would rather avoid.

Under this law, they would effectively need official permission to work in some places overseas. Those "unsponsored" who get unlucky will face a "rescue fine" -- which could bankrupt the person or the organization. Thus this new system of rents will curtail Japanese volunteerism.

The Japanese government is taking this way too far and totally agree with the author of this article that this is a bad bad thing. As I've said before, legislation during emotionally charged times often ends up being stupid and poorly thought through. The ramifications of such a law would be devastating for NGO's and aid workers from Japan, just when such activity is becoming recognized. It almost feels like some stupid conspiracy to use this incident to squash the NGO's in Japan. Bah. I have less and less respect for the Japanese government every day.

"Three die in mortar attacks as another
hostage crisis grips Baghdad"

"Three die in mortar attacks as another
hostage crisis grips Baghdad" 07/11/2004 03:25 PM

Contact Made With Hostage-Takers in
Russia (AP)

Contact Made With Hostage-Takers in
Russia (AP) 09/01/2004 08:46 PM
AP - Attackers wrapped in suicide-bomb belts raided a school in a region bordering Chechnya, seizing up to 400 hostages — including scores of students welcoming the new school year — and threatening to kill captives or blow up the building if it was stormed by encircling Russian troops.

School cash crisis warning

School cash crisis warning 04/09/2004 04:13 PM
Teachers claim that many schools in England could face another round of funding shortages this year.

Hopes Pinned on Talks in Russia Hostage
Drama (Reuters)

Hopes Pinned on Talks in Russia Hostage
Drama (Reuters) 09/01/2004 10:59 PM
Reuters - Gunmen held hundreds of children and adults captive in a school gym into the night in turbulent southern Russia Thursday, but the Kremlin remained silent about an attack which amounted to a huge humiliation.

Russia Mourns Hostage Deaths, Putin
Criticized (Reuters)

Russia Mourns Hostage Deaths, Putin
Criticized (Reuters) 09/06/2004 05:32 AM
Reuters - Russia on Monday mourned the deaths of hundreds of children and adults in its worst hostage drama as criticism mounted over the way President Vladimir Putin and his security forces handled the crisis.

Russia Collects Dead at School
(washingtonpost.com)

Russia Collects Dead at School
(washingtonpost.com) 09/04/2004 10:58 PM
washingtonpost.com - BESLAN, Russia, Sept. 4 -- The broken bodies of hundreds of children were pulled from the rubble of this bereaved town's School No. 1 on Saturday, pushing the death toll well above 300 in an attack that President Vladimir Putin denounced as an "inhuman, unprecedentedly cruel" terrorist crime.

Logic & Sanity: School seized in
Russia.

Logic & Sanity: School seized in
Russia. 09/01/2004 05:01 PM
Every parent's nightmare just came true in Russia .. doing updates

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Russia Seals Off Siege School Region

Russia Seals Off Siege School Region 09/04/2004 01:27 AM
Reuters via Wired News Sep 4 2004 4:54AM GMT

"Help The Victims Of The School
Terrorist Attacks In Russia"

"Help The Victims Of The School
Terrorist Attacks In Russia" 09/05/2004 09:48 AM

Russia School Standoff Ends With 200
Dead (AP)

Russia School Standoff Ends With 200
Dead (AP) 09/03/2004 08:08 PM
AP - The three-day hostage siege at a school in southern Russia ended in chaos and bloodshed Friday, after witnesses said Chechen militants set off bombs and Russian commandos stormed the building. Hostages fled in terror, many of them children who were half-naked and covered in blood. Officials estimated the death toll at more than 200.

Hours pass in Russia school siege

Hours pass in Russia school siege 09/01/2004 05:27 PM
A siege at a south Russian school goes into the night, with a gang holding at least 200, many of them children.

Questions Linger Over Russia School
Seige (AP)

Questions Linger Over Russia School
Seige (AP) 09/11/2004 03:33 AM
AP - Russian soldiers fled as shooting broke out in the spasm of violence that ended the school siege here, and unprepared special forces were forced to borrow bullets from armed locals who had rushed to the scene.

Hostage families return to school

Hostage families return to school 09/04/2004 04:00 PM
Relatives return to the scene of Russia's bloody three-day school siege, as the number killed reaches 330.

Russia School Death Toll Includes 155
Children

Russia School Death Toll Includes 155
Children 09/04/2004 10:10 AM
Reuters via Wired News Sep 4 2004 1:34PM GMT

Pope Condemns 'Vile' Russia School Siege

Pope Condemns 'Vile' Russia School Siege 09/04/2004 01:31 PM
Reuters via Wired News Sep 4 2004 4:43PM GMT

Terrorists Storm School in Southern
Russia (washingtonpost.com)

Terrorists Storm School in Southern
Russia (washingtonpost.com) 09/01/2004 08:46 PM
washingtonpost.com - MOSCOW, Sept. 1 -- Armed terrorists stormed a school in southern Russia near the separatist region of Chechnya Wednesday morning, taking hundreds of students, teachers and parents hostage after a shootout with local police, authorities said.

BBC NEWS | Europe | Bloody end to Russia
school siege

BBC NEWS | Europe | Bloody end to Russia
school siege 09/03/2004 06:21 PM
Over a hundred hostages reported killed in Russian hostage seige .. Scores, possibly hundreds of children killed .. stormed the school .. have taken over .. events

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Chechen Leader Said to Take Credit for
School Siege in Russia

Chechen Leader Said to Take Credit for
School Siege in Russia 09/17/2004 08:36 AM
Shamil Basayev, the commander believed to have organized the siege, has purportedly taken responsibility for the attack.

Russia starts 'em young with sleuth
school (Reuters)

Russia starts 'em young with sleuth
school (Reuters) 02/01/2005 09:23 PM
Reuters - Russian children as young as six are to get lessons in detective work and criminal law at a school run by the police, local media have reported.

Hostage Negotiations Stall at Russian
School

Hostage Negotiations Stall at Russian
School 09/02/2004 08:39 AM
Armed fighters refused an offer of safe passage in exchange for the release of more than 350 hostages, officials said.

During School Siege, Russia Took
Captives in Chechnya (Los Angeles Times)

During School Siege, Russia Took
Captives in Chechnya (Los Angeles Times) 09/07/2004 04:45 AM
Los Angeles Times - ZNAMENSKOYE, Russia — It was 6 a.m. when Russian soldiers hoisted themselves over the wall, crashed through the window and broke down the front door. Their quarries were still asleep.
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