palmer.william@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Bill Palmer) wrote in message
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>...
> For example, now the Russian government is
> saying that 20 commandos lost their lives,
> mostly shot, not by the terrorists, but by
> the townspeople who were shooting at the
> terrorists and hit the commandos in error.
>
> In the first place, think of the utter
> absurdity of anyone conducting a hostage
> rescue operation when wrought-up relatives
> of the hostages, bristling with weapons,
> are standing just behind the anti-terrorist
> forces. Would any sort of police or
> commando unit want to try and do its job
> in such a situation and risk getting shot
> in the back by an emotional relative of
> a hostage?
If course they would, it's their job! Seems the bombs started going
off by accident & the chances are that the special forces knew there
were at least 1,500 people in there. What else can they do, sit back &
wait for the terrorists to finish killing all their captives?! Their
rescue plan would have had very little planning due to the changed
nature of the event, a re-hash of an earlier plan maybe, & would
basically have been on the terrorists terms & ground.
> Of course not. From the Russia government,
> the media gets this far-fetched scenario
> of the troops standing outside the
> school exchanging fire with the terrorists
> and then an image of troops dropping like
> ducks due to being shot in the back by
> gun-totating vigilantes.
>
> It very likely never happened.
>
> If indeed a large number of commandos were
> shot by the townspeople rather than by
> the hostages, it is far more likely
> that the vigilante townspeople, probably
> many of them parents or other relatives
> of the children held in the school
> simply executed the commandos after the
> bombs went off. The townspeople probably
> did that because they became enraged that
> the commandos did not prevent the school
> from exploding, and the explosions no doubt
> looked and sounded so bad, that the relatives
> with all the guns assumed their children
> had already been killed and took their
> fury out on the commandos.
A very lame conspiracy theory indeed, doesn't stand up to any thought
on the matter. Why would they kill the people most able to save their
children?! Their hatred would be directed at those in the building.
Chances are a lot of the dead are actually relatives killed by the
special forces as they would most likely be in civi clothes. A lot of
special forces would have been killed by relatives by accident, both
stray bullets & mistaken identity. There were explosions but no-one
would have any real idea how bad they were. Besides, most of the
relatives would have done military service & know a little more about
explosives, explosions & guns than the average American observer.
W
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