Beslan hostage-takers were all addicts says top Russian official
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All the hostage-takers who seized Beslan&#39;s school number one on September 1 were drug addicts and were under the influence of narcotics throughout the 52-hour siege, Russia&#39;s Deputy Prosecutor General has claimed.
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Russia&#39;s chief prosecutor says the militants who staged the school hostage-taking used weapons they stole during attacks on police posts in June.
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Around 300 people, including many children, were facing a harrowing night in captivity Wednesday after they were taken hostage by extremists wearing belts laden with explosives at a southern Russian school near war-torn Chechnya.
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The top official in the southern Russian republic of North Ossestia promised that his government would step down amid criticism for its handling of the Beslan school hostage siege, AFP reporters on the scene said.
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Russia's chief prosecutor has ordered  criminal proceedings against three police officers in Beslan,  the town where more than 320 people died in a mass  hostage-taking, Interfax news agency said on Tuesday.
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MOSCOW Forensic analysis of the remains of 31 militants who seized the public school in Beslan last month has determined that all of them were dependent on drugs, a senior law enforcement official said in a statement reported by Russian news agencies
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Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, in a  statement issued on Friday, claimed responsibility for the  Beslan school siege in which more than 320 hostages were  killed, half of them children, according to a Chechen rebel Web  site.
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The government of Russian president Vladimir Putin has seized on the events around the armed takeover of a school in Beslan, a town in the southern republic of Ossetia, to broaden its âantiterrorism
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BESLAN, Russia  - 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.
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MOSCOWâAfter the worst hostage-taking crisis of his presidency, when the southern Russian town of Beslan was soaked in the blood of its children, Vladimir Putin didn&#39;t dare present his condolences face to face.
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A former Russian top spy says his agents helped the Russian government steal nearly $500 million from the U.N.'s oil-for-food program in Iraq before the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003.
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VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia  - Police in the Russian  region traumatized by the Beslan school siege played down  reprisal fears as mourning drew to a close, while locals  thought the shattered community was too exhausted for revenge.
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BESLAN, Russia - Wails of mourning echoed through the streets of this southern Russian town on Sunday, and the region's top police officer reportedly resigned in the wake of the school hostage-taking that left more than 380 people dead - nearly half of them children.    A shaken President Vladimir Putin went on national television Saturday to make a rare and candid admission of Russian weakness in the face of an "all-out war" by terrorists...
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A top Russian finance official unveiled a &#36;49 million budget Monday for rebuilding the scarred North Ossetian town of Beslan, where more than 330 people &#151; mostly children &#151; died in a school siege in September.
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BESLAN, Russia  - An armed gang that stormed a  school in southern Russia may be holding as many as 1,500  hostages, far above the official figure of 350, newspapers  quoted freed hostages on Friday as saying.
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Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev claims responsibility for the Beslan siege in which more than 320 hostages died.
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Offering the government's first detailed official account of the hostage crisis, Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov depicted a harsh discipline within the group of attackers and confirmed that they were aided by a local police officer.