zyonchaos

The Russians are very new to the scene when it comes to the art of securing the release of terrorists especially since before the fall of communism in their country it was pretty much a case of sod the terrorists sod the victims lets go in all guns blazing and hope for the best now with the international media keeping tabs on anything like this happening it cuts that response out of the loop.
Now one of the problems the Russians faced (besides the obvious fundamentalist, suicidal attitude of the aggressors) was crowd control!!
Most of the people standing around in DIRECT LINE OF SIGHT of the target were parents of children trapped in the school. Understandable as a parent I would do the same in their shoes. But unlike their western counterparts these parents are by the large ex conscripts from the army and still have serviceable weapons in their cuboards and as soon as they saw their children in harms way, they rushed home and got said weapons.
When things started happening and shots were fired these parents returned fire, leaving the military no other option but to join in.
Now the first thing that should of happened as soon as Russian forces started arriving was a cordon should of been made in the UK no reporter, family member or fully armed person without the correct ID ie military, police or medic would of been allowed inside that cordon if this had happened a lot more lives could of been saved possibly.

Also did anyone notice as soon as it was reported that there were a couple of Arab mercenaries in the group of hostage takers, that was all that was focused on?? Just a thought

Jay

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