2006-08-15

Revisiting Muslim Terror at Beslan

On the first day of school in 2004, a Chechen terrorist group struck the Russian town of Beslan. Targeting children, they took more than eleven hundred hostages. The attack represented a horrifying innovation in human brutality. Here, an extraordinary accounting of the experience of terror in the age of terrorism.

4 comments:

Paul Hue said...

Six: I skimmed this article and found no description of these terrorists as Muslims.

Anonymous said...

You know, I guess now that you mention it that fact is sort of veiled over, but if you read the entire thing it's pretty evident that they are.

It's a gut-wrenching read, but well worth it.

Anonymous said...

There are enough references made along the way that you can deduce that they are Muslim.

Anonymous said...

Let me rephrase that for the PC crowd:

There are enough references made along the way that you can deduce that they are Muslim Extremists/Radical Islamists/Islamo-fascists, etc.