One lesson of the Russian school siege
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At the time of writing, Russian special forces have stormed the school where Chechen terrorists took hundreds of children hostage, and the situation is in chaos.
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BESLAN, Russia -- The first day of classes following the massacre of more than 330 hostages at a school in this southern Russian city have been abruptly canceled, a principal at one of Beslan&#39;s schools has told CNN.
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BESLAN, Russia  - Russia began counting the cost  on Saturday at the end of a siege of a school captured by  Chechen gunmen which killed at least 200 people and cast fresh  doubts on Moscow's policy in the turbulent region.
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MOSCOW Sept. 8, 2004 - The militants who raided a school in southern Russia last week were led by a man dubbed the Colonel, who enforced obedience by killing three fellow attackers two by detonating the explosives they had strapped to their bodies.
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BESLAN, Russia  - The killing of more than 320  children, parents and teachers during the bloody end to a  53-hour school siege left barely a family untouched in the  small Russian town of Beslan.
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Following is a selection of comments on the school siege in North Ossetia, where Russian soldiers have battled Chechen separatists to end the two-day standoff.
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BBC News Online looks at how the crisis surrounding the siege of a school in the Russian town of Beslan, where more than 300 people are being held hostage, is developing.
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BESLAN, Russia Inside the charred, bullet-pocked wreckage of Middle School No. 1 lies evidence of the terror Russia faces: two parts of the library&#39;s wooden floor had been pried up, evidently by the heavily
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In the hours before many would die, the children and adults of Beslan&#39;s School No. 1 were forced to sit and watch their masked hostage-takers wire up the floor and walls around them with bombs.
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The people of Russia have experienced the extremes to which terrorists are prepared to go to achieve their ends. Terrorists killed more than three-hundred people, mostly children, at a school they seized in Beslan.
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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.
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THE UNSPEAKABLE tragedy in Beslan, the town in Southern Russia where terrorists seized a school on the first day of class and where more than 300 people
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MOSCOW - Attackers wearing suicide-bomb belts seized a school in a Russian region bordering Chechnya on Wednesday and were holding hundreds of hostages, including 200 children. The assault came a day after a suicide bomber killed 10 people in Moscow...
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The ultimate blame for the tragedy that exploded in Russia on Friday rests squarely on the shoulders of terrorists who deliberately place children in harm&#39;s way to make a political point.
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The tragedy at the Beslan school number one that ended in the deaths of hundreds of small children, teachers and parents has left Vladimir Putin under the spotlight and the subject of sharp criticism for his anti-terrorism strategy.
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Key events in seizure of a school in the town of Beslan in southern Russia. Some times are approximate.
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Key events in the hostage standoff at a school in Beslan in southern Russia. All times are local; some are approximate.