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To: LindyBill who wrote (66801)	9/3/2004 6:29:15 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 793866

KIDS - SHOT IN THE BACK. Command post Russia Updates - Rescue Operation Declared to be Over Covering ground from the past few hours: Here’s a telling piece of information: “The majority of patients have bullet wounds in the back” Kids. Shot in the back. Here’s more: The operation of Russian special forces for the rescue of all hostages in a Beslan school has been completed, according to a statement by General Viktor Sobolev, chief commander of 58th army. Russian NTV quoted him saying that a total of 556 people, including 322 children, were hospitalized in the local hospital. Seventy-nine bodies of the hundred-and-more casualties were identified, most of them were shot in the rear while trying to escape from the besieged school. Anyone know what to make of this Rueters headline? Bush Blames Terrorists for Russian Deaths Did they have someone else in mind to blame? Bush had this to say: “In Russia, hundreds of agonized parents are worried about the fate of their children. This is yet another grim reminder of the lengths terrorists will go to threaten the civilized world,” Bush said. “We mourn the innocent life that has been lost, we stand with the people of Russia, we send them our prayers in this horrible situation,” Bush said. Three of the terrorists have been detained: Three members of the terrorist group that seized a school in North Ossetia’s Beslan have been detained by security services, head of the North Ossetian president’s information and analysis department Lev Dzugayev told Interfax. “We have information about three bandits who have been detained and are currently being held by special services. They are being worked with,” Dzugayev told Russia’s Channel One television station.