Belsan Suspect: "We Wanted To Start A War"

CNN reports that a suspect in the Russian school siege that left more than 330 people dead, nearly half of them children, said Monday the hostage-takers were ordered to seize the school to "start a war across the Caucasus:"

Appearing on Russian state television, the unidentified man said the attack was ordered by Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov and Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev.

"They gathered us in the woods and 'The Colonel' said that we should take over a school in Beslan. That was our order," he said.

"When we asked why we were doing this, what our goal was, 'The Colonel' answered us, 'Because we need to start a war across the Caucasus."

He said the hostage-takers included Uzbeks, Arabs and Chechens.

The "suspect" now claims to pity the children he helped slaughter:

The suspect earlier had said he did not fire a shot inside the school and that he "pitied the children" who were taken captive.

"Of course I pitied the children, I swear to Allah. I have children myself. I didn't shoot. I swear to Allah," he said. "I don't want to die. I swear to Allah, I want to live."

I got news for the bastard evil doer: It doesn't matter if you shot or not. You took part in this unspeakably evil slaughter. Burning eternally in hell is way too good for you and your evil doer accomplices.

Comments

[d. horton]

i have just watched a documentary on the belsan sieze. i am amazed that any human could go to such level. i could not watch without my heart pouring out much emotion. there is only one god; no matter how you choose to worship your god; through symbols, momuments or through whatever objects; god is still only one god. this one god does not tell anyone to kill and create wars. the people do this, not god. it is no wonder that americans go to foreign country to try and help the peoples get along with one another. look at what your doing to each other. it is not the work of any god; it is the work of selfishness and the desire to control instead of living in harmony and loving one another. i hope the countries wake up.

[mike]

muslums are way worse than nazis could ever be.
to all non muslums; WAKE UP! if you don't fight back & terrorize the terrorists now by exterminating the vermin or at least strip them of power & oil wealth to put them back into their devil worshiping bottle, your grandchildren will pay for your fear to confront & subdue them. your grand children will be slaughtered like the children of Belsan. The islo-nazi goal is ALL MUSLUM WORLD by 2100.

[eric]

Rajeev Syal of the Sunday Telegraph (telegraph.co.uk) filed on 5/9/04 (ie 5th September in UK) interviewed an Islamic cleric, Omar Bakri Mohammed 44 who lives in Edmonton, North London. The interview was over the cleric's promotion of a celebratory Conference next Saturday to commemmorate the 3rd anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Omar said in the article, and I quote, "If an Iraqi Muslim carried out an attack like that in Britain, it would be justified...".
The general feeling is that the world is up against something more sinister than just a Chechen fight for independence.