Russian Forces Enter Theatre, End Hostage Situation

[Serb]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove


So will the Russian Federation make an exception for these guys?

In this case, I really don't know.

[Sonic]

It is strange terrorists didn't had gasmasks - quite a big flaw in the organization, since gasmaks aren't that hard to get at all... At least they are easier to get than machine guns and bombs.

[Serb]

I wish I could see your face if you spent 3 days wearing gas mask.

[lightblue]

Hmm, last I heard all but 2 of the terrorists were killed in the action, although there were rumors that a handful managed to escape.

So I don't think the death penalty thing is too much to worry about. Hopefully the Russians won't take out their anger on the Chechen population though, viscious circle and all that...

[Eli]

The next time terrorists will attack Russia on such scale there will be no hostage taking. After this action they probably already understood the obvious, Russia isnt going to leave.

[Serb]

Hmm, last I heard all but 2 of the terrorists were killed in the action, although there were rumors that a handful managed to escape.

So I don't think the death penalty thing is too much to worry about. Hopefully the Russians won't take out their anger on the Chechen population though, viscious circle and all that...

About 30 suspects arested. It's beleived that they observed the situation from outside and told information to terrorists which were within theater. And this "escaped" guy was actually one of the arested, as it was said later.

[Serb]

Originally posted by Eli
The next time terrorists will attack Russia on such scale there will be no hostage taking. After this action they probably already understood the obvious, Russia isnt going to leave.

Russia isn't going to fullfil terrorist demands. TERRORISTS, not rebels or gunman as your media decribe them. THEY ARE TERRORISTS
When you start to saying the truth to yourselves?

[Sonic]

Serb, they are rebels anyway.

Word rebel can cross with word terrorist:
Rebel - anyone, fighting against government
Terrorist - anyone intentionally killing innocent people to fulfill his needs

Thus one, fighting against government in a peace time and killing innocent people in the way would be rebel terrorist.

[Sonic]

However, by my description Russian army are also terrorists, because as far as I know they are also intentionally killing lots of civilians in Chechenya...

(I will probably translate and post here an interview with Chechenyan ambassador to Lithuania later)

[Pekka]

What you mean gunmen and rebels? Our media has been calling them terrorists all long. There are Chechen rebels, but these are terrorists.

I'm glad it's over now. Though 67 were lost, I consider this a major success for Russian special forces. They did very very good.. I'm sorry for the lost lives, it's still tragic, but at the same time I congratulate the soldiers who took part in the action and succeeded.

[Gangerolf]

what kind of gas did they use?

just saw the news, an expert of some kind thought it may have been CO2.

[Gangerolf]

some of the women terrorists appeared to have been shot while unconscious

[Sonic]

Pekka, so did Lithuanian media. However, if you'd read articles on CNN, you'd see they are called gunmen or rebels there.

[Eli]

Originally posted by Gangerolf
some of the women terrorists appeared to have been shot while unconscious

Yes. They were sleeping and the Russians didnt want to mess with the explosives belts so they just killed them.

[Sonic]

Gangerwolf, they shot most of terrorists while unconscious.