Interestingly enough, CNN was giving what seems to be the straight scoop on what happened during the hostage crisis in Russia. Too bad that Peter Jennings couldn't do as well. I heard Peter Jennings talk about how the Russians had said that they would do everything they could do to protect the hostages. Then Peter Jennings made out like there was an unprovoked attack on the hostage-takers by the Russian troops (which was false, of course).

The real story is that the terrorists had set off explosives and started shooting at escaping hostages. An ambulance had been sent in to retrieve bodies of those already killed by the terrorists. When that happened, a good number of hostages made a move to escape. Seemingly, the terrorists panicked and set off their explosive charges in the gym roof. They also started shooting children in their backs, as the children tried to escape.

In answer to that, the Russian troops had not option but to fight to save as many hostages as they could. They also had the help of the local citizenry, men who helped the troops save children and women (all the men had been killed).

I couldn't believe Peter Jennings, and I was extremely angry that he would do such as thing. He was either ignorant of the facts or else he lied to make the Russian soldiers look bad, when in fact, they were heroes.

Regards,

Jim Bender

http://dreadnought-cruisers.blogspot.com/

Reflecting on the terrible news from Russia, it makes one yearn for the peaceful days of the Cold War (at least when it wasn't "hot" in Vietnam and Korea).

Sadly, this is going to be a long, bloody road until Muslims, particularly Arab Muslims, purge the radicals from their own ranks.

And the Left fears GWB, go figure.