Use of children reportedly triggered clash of captors
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Some of the hostage-takers who took over a school in southern Russia, leading to the death of more than 150 children, may not have known what they were getting
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BESLAN, Russia - 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.    Authorities established contact with the hostage-takers hours after the raid Wednesday, which officials said left at least two people dead in the latest assault in a country the defense minister said has been challenged by a declaration of terrorist war...
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The Bush administration&#39;s aggressive techniques for extracting information from detainees captured in Afghanistan and Iraq sparked sharp dissent
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Militants appear to have planned their seizure of a Russian school carefully, starting months earlier and sneaking weapons into the building in advance. Still, some of the raiders may not have known what they were getting into and were appalled to find they were holding children hostage.
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BESLAN, Russia - Camouflage-clad commandos carried crying babies away from a school where gunmen holding hundreds of hostages freed at least 26 women and children Thursday during a second day of high drama that kept crowds of distraught relatives on edge.    Two new accounts emerged, meanwhile, that the militants were holding at least 1,000 children, teachers and parents inside the school, far more than previously thought...
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Aborigines fear police and troops will seize their children as part of a controversial clampdown aimed at preventing widespread sexual abuse, the Australian government acknowledged Tuesday.
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Details began to emerge yesterday as to what may have driven the school siege militants, as yet unidentified, to commit such a horrifying act against children.
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More kids appear to be playing a risky game that can lead to accidental strangulation.
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Children in Pakistan are increasingly exposed to abuse, kidnapping and violence, a new report says.
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Footage is released by US and Iraqi forces claiming to depict al-Qaida militants training children under the age of 11 how to fight and kidnap
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A fter a prisoner abuse scandal in Iraq, the International Committee of the Red Cross has reportedly found that prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay are subjected to interrogation methods that are &quot;tantamount to torture.
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Video image of hostages sitting below explosives strung from basketball hoops in the gymnasium of a school in Beslan, Russia. Photograph: NTV/AP.
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The case of the youngest detainee at GuantÃ¡namo Bay has implications as large as the growing ranks of child soldiers worldwide.
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Governments in at least 10 countries continue to use children to fight on the frontline, according to a new report. &quot;Scores of armed political groups in most regions of the world continued to recruit children
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By Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington and Frances Williams in Geneva. The International Committee of the Red Cross has accused the US of using psychological and physical pressure to interrogate prisoners at
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 6 -- Security forces ringing a besieged mosque pummeled Islamic radicals with gunfire on Friday, as concern grew that many of those still inside -- including children -- were being held against their will.
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