On the same day, Valery, whose daughter was a hostage answered the question of a Spanish journalist (as told by Kommersant): “Do you think this was terrorism?” “Yes, it was. It’s always terrorism when people are taken as hostages. But the people died from their own. My daughter called me; she said it was all quiet there. They treated the kids normally. She told me that only one woman was killed in the very beginning. Do you understand?”
There were gunshots before the raid. They were heard. But not a single hostage confirms what the operational headquarters’ representative, Pavel Kudryavtsev, declared at 5:40AM. They affirm the contrary, that there were no executions before the raid. The terrorists did not execute the hostages early in the morning of October 26th. Otherwise the female terrorists sleeping in peaceful poses among the hostages would not have been killed. So what did happen? Here is what. “The gas attack, Kommersant writes, was preceded by a light-and-noise cover. The commandos fired on the Nord-Ost publicity banner, which blocks the windows of the second floor. The terrorists thought that the commandos got inside and threw grenades at them from the balcony and started to shoot over there, distracting from the hostages, a participant of the raid told Kommersant, but the shooting stopped in a moment because the gas started to work.”
Notice that the latter was said by a participant of the raid and not a hostage. What he said was a lie. Because when the raid started, every human being in the hall either slept or was already dead two hours ago. Let us recall that Nikolay Stepchenkov, an ambulance doctor testified that at 6:50 there were already dozens of inanimate bodies on the entrance. /…/ Some already dead. And they were dead since a long time – two-three hours ago.” If it is two hours, then they released the gas at 4:50 and if it is three hours then it was at 3:50. In any case Stepchenkov is precise: their skin was cold. After all, he is a doctor, he knows.
So what did happen? Barayev was distracted with phone calls from generals and criminal authorities. They released the gas in the hall. Then the commandos opened fire on the Nord-Ost banner as planned, really carrying out a light-and-noise cover. However this cover was not intended for the militants but for the media, for the Russian society. They had to create a false “execution of hostages”. In real fact the commandos who burst into the hall had nobody to shoot at: all the militants in the hall were either sleeping, or like a part of the hostages, already dead. Otherwise there would have been casualties among the commandos. There were only some male militants left on the second floor. It was them who shouted “Allah akbar!” and tried to organize a resistance. But most of the terrorists were shot by the commandos in their sleep, apparently after the hostages in a creepy slumber (a few breaths per minute, you remember!) were brought out of the hall.
After that they cleaned the hall. They left the killed Chechens and corrected the reality according to how they wanted to present it to the society. And they invited a few trusted journalists, while the FSB operators filmed the hall on camera. The FSB video aired by the television channels show powerful bombs thoroughly put in evidence and cables leading to them and disappearing somewhere in the ceiling. Not a single independent journalist saw the hall of the Theater Center on Dubrovka before it was cleaned by the commandos. The video shows a frame-up.
Later, the NTV channel, still disobedient at that time, demonstrated another video filmed by a hostage and also photos secretly made by another hostage (an Ukrainian). On these video documents we can see that there is no bomb on the place of the largest land mine. There is a bag (two times smaller than the bomb on the FSB video) and there are no cables attached to it. The FSB agents cleaned the hall and fixed the bomb and the cables in order to justify their wrongdoing against innocent Russian hostages. There was no risk that the building might explode! The risk of an explosion is brought by the authorities as the most important argument to justify the raid. “We couldn’t save everybody”, the president said. You killed them, Mr. President. You and your employees of the special forces who spent the morning covering up the bodies. Without hesitation, without risking their lives.
MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS
The National-Bolsheviks have declared Putin responsible for Beslan’s victims. This is how German journalists from Spiegel, authors of the book “01.09. Beslan’s File” saw the very beginning of the Beslan tragedy. I will cite the very beginning of the foreword. “Early in the morning of September 1st 2004 a group of thirty-one men and two women came out of a wood on Sunjen Ridge and went their way. Armed with grenade-throwers, guns, hand grenades, sniper rifles and automatic guns they went to seize School Number One in Beslan, a town in the neighboring North Ossetia. /…/ During several days the terrorists molested, according to official data, 1120 hostages, 331 of whom died, including 186 children, from babies to first grade students. 783 were wounded and among them there is also a lot of children. Beslan, until then an idyllic town on the background of the Caucasus Ridge became the embodiment of grief, a town condemned to live with an everlasting pain.
If a corresponding crime had happened in some German town or a French village or an American province, its cruel inhumanity would have become the subject of the media for months to come. And under the pressure of the public the authorities would have been forced to thoroughly investigate the crime and report about its results as soon as possible.
But not in Russia. But not on the Caucasus. Silencing and hushing up for generations have become part of the lifestyle here. They must protect the foreign sovereigns from claims and pretensions. Therefore it is extremely difficult here to carry out an investigation among those who were touched by this event.
Everything is interlinked on the North Caucasus. Everybody is linked with one another by either a deep friendship or a deep animosity. And the distances here are modest too. There is only one hundred km from Beslan in the Christian North Ossetia to Grozny in the Muslim Chechnya. And between them is squeezed the small and also Muslim Ingushetia. The countries are all dwarfish, surrounding Moscow like a necklace on a distance of 130 km from it. Here, near Caucasus’ Northern spurs, the former Soviet empire has broken to little pieces, which today’s Russia doesn’t have the forces to put back together. In the contrary: the war in Chechnya is shattering the region and allows the separatist movements here and there to gain strength. In the mountains and forests of Chechnya and Ingushetia Allah’s Muslim warriors are getting ready. And the terrorist attack on Beslan was an attempt to draw North Ossetia, a Christian republic, for centuries faithful to Moscow, into war.
The Russian official bodies are slowing down as they can the flow of information about the reasons and the analysis of the events. The art of disinformation has flourished again since the Soviet times. For instance the information that the Prosecutor General, the special services, the army and police officials share with the public are first of all reflecting their desire to hide their own neglect and miscalculations.
This neglect and mistakes are astounding. The destroyed building of School Number 1 was never investigated as the spot when the crime was committed like it was supposed to be according to the rules of criminalistics. Even the process of hostage taking itself was not sufficiently clarified by the officials; at least the public did not get such information. A lot is unclear with the tragic end itself, which was contributed to by the lack of professionalism of those who acted from the name of the State.”