holman@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Eugene Holman) wrote in message
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> In article <13ea6e3a.0409052233.6807ad41@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> palmer.william@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Bill Palmer) wrote:
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> > Now that the Russian government has been forced
> > to admit that their first reaction to the takeover
> > of the school by murderous religious fanatics was
> > to tell a whopper of a tansparent lie about the
> > number of hostages in the school, one has to wonder
> > what else they have been lying about.
>
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> The number of people in buildings, trains, and schools when there is
> open-school day is not usually known with precision.
That strains credulity. It is virtually certain
that there would have people in the vicinity
who were not actually in the school who could
have least said within an error or hundred or
so how many people were in that school. The
people I refer to would have been local folks
with one sort of affiliation with the school.
Yet, the Russian government came out with a
number that represented perhaps one-third
of the actual correct figure.
>
> Remember that on September 11 we were initially told that there had been
> about 6,000 casualties in the WTC. It takes a while before the numbers
can
> be sorted out, and when there is a tragedy of this type unfolding in
real
> time, people have more im****tant things to do than make estimates.
>
> For Beslan, the precise number of people in the building will never be
> known, nor will the number of victims, since a few children may have
been
> abducted by the hostage-takers that escaped, and other people were
> charred beyond recognition or simply blown up.
That is a very shallow excuse for the sort of
misstatement we are speaking of. In the first
place, while a few hostage takers could have
slipped past the Russians in the confusion
following the bomb blasts, it strains credulity
to think very many of them could, or that they
could have many hostages in tow. Also, as
far as who is missing, of course that could
be determined very precisely, because most, if
not all, of those in the school would have
family members would re****t them missing.
Of course the authorities would be able
to correlate that information with other data
and get a fairly accurate -- not necessarily
100 percent perfect -- count. These victims
were not a bunch of vagabonds, they were
people who were part of a community. Common
sense says most of them would have had daily
interactions with others.
Mr. Palmer
Room 314 in the upstairs office
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>
> Regards,
> Eugene Holman
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