|
Beslan Thugs Had Pre-positioned Cache?
Inside the charred, bullet-pocked wreckage of Middle School No. 1, there lies evidence of the terror Russia faces: Two parts of the library's wooden floor had been pried up, evidently by the heavily armed attackers who seized the school last week and held more than 1,100 hostages for 52 hours. Beneath the boards, investigators now suspect, the attackers had hidden a cache of weapons or other equipment for weeks and perhaps months before their attack — possibly during a seemingly innocuous summer renovation, officials said... "They knew the geography of the school grounds like their own back yard," the chief spokesman for Russia's Federal Security Service, Sergei N. Ignatchenko, said in a telephone interview ...Posted by: Pete Stanley 2004-09-07 |
| http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=42562 |