Over 300 Killed In Russian School Siege

[angels4u]

Let pray for all the families who lost a child in this terrible attack, I can't believe they took so many child'ren hostage.......

In prayer, Angels

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Over 300 killed in Russian school siege

Survivors tell of unspeakable horrors; Putin visits town

Updated: 6:53 a.m. ET Sept. 4, 2004BESLAN,

Russia - Emergency workers on Saturday pulled more than 320 bodies out of a southern Russian school that had been held by heavily armed militants, a prosecutor said, and President Vladimir Putin accused the attackers of trying to spark an ethnic conflict that would engulf Russia's troubled Caucasus Mountains region.

The ITAR-Tass news agency quoted Russian Deputy Prosecutor Sergei Fridinsky as saying 322 bodies, including those of 155 children, had been recovered from the school in Beslan. That raised the death toll well beyond the 250 officials had previously cited.

Putin ordered the borders of North Ossetia closed Saturday as security forces searched the southern region for militants who escaped .

'All Russia grieves'

At least 92 of 283 children hospitalized following the bloody and chaotic gunbattle Friday in the town of Beslan were listed in very grave condition. In all, some 531 people remained hospitalized. Many were said to have been killed or wounded when a roof collapsed from an explosion before the Russian assault of the building began.

[ann2]

My brothers & sisters i am afraid that it is going to get worse before the Lord comes.The people of Russia have my prayers.Heaven has more little souls today.My heatr goes out to the parents as i know from personal what a heartache it is to lose a child.Everyone please keep these people in your prayers.

[ann2]

My brothers & sisters i am afraid that it is going to get worse before the Lord comes.The people of Russia have my prayers.Heaven has more little souls today.My heart goes out to the parents as i know from personal what a heartache it is to lose a child.Everyone please keep these people in your prayers.

[Anonymous]

It is unbelievable and sickening that anyone would use children as hostages or ransom bait to get what they want, -- then to shoot them when is all coming to end, and they have lost! There was no gain in killing them at the end as they ran.

Breaks my heart every time I think about that situation.

Pray for those who lost their loved ones.... Pray for their country.. as well as ours!

Blessings~

[Guest charlie]

I think this is absolutely awful. Those poor children. I've been praying for their families.

I think it's so gutless; where are they gonna go next..a maternity ward?

[Guest yod]

It is unbelievable and sickening that anyone would use children as hostages or ransom bait to get what they want, -- then to shoot them when is all coming to end, and they have lost! There was no gain in killing them at the end as they ran.

This has been going on almost daily in Israel until they put up that fence.

I wonder when people are going to realize that this is the same war being fought there? When there is peace in Jerusalem there will be peace world wide.

and charlie....our intel says that al queda is planning attacks on VA hospitals

[WayneB]

Has anybody considered that this could be the United States some day IF we lose our resolve?

I wonder if the parents of those 300 plus children would support Homeland Security or Martial Law in this circumstance.

THIS is what the current administration is trying to prevent not only in the United States but around the world.

We ALL need to open our eyes to the real ENEMY...his name is Satan and he is using the goats of the world to spread terror and division.

The families are in my prayers as well.

[ayin jade]

No place is safe from these cowards.

[Guest charlie]

and charlie....our intel says that al queda is planning attacks on VA hospitals

Well that's just great, attack really old people and disabeled vets; attack people that can barely get out of bed, or those who are bound to a wheelchair.

I tell you one thing, we better clamp down on our borders or it's gonna be an American School here at home, or a VA hospital, that this happens in next time. We better start focusing on these terrorist cells that they keep telling us are here already.

I feel bad for the Russians. I know they were our enemy not that long ago but the Russian people thruout history have had a hard row to hoe. What a terrible thing to happen to them.

[senerhu]

this quote came out of an article about the massacre of Russian school children and their familys and I felt lead to share this with you all...

"Gadieyeva told of three days of unspeakable horror - of children so frightened they couldn't sleep, of captors coolly threatening to kill off hostages one by one. The gym where they were held was so cramped there was hardly room to move.

"We were in complete fear," said Gadieyeva, who spoke to an Associated Press reporter as she lay collapsed with exhaustion on a stretcher outside a hospital. "People were praying all the time, and those that didn't know how to pray - we taught them."

I posted this in Praises as well, but I thought it appropriate to share here. I am, of course, assuming that these are Christians praying...