{"id":4555,"date":"2017-04-13T10:52:36","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T08:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4555"},"modified":"2017-04-13T10:53:46","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T08:53:46","slug":"the-bbc-on-beslan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/4555\/","title":{"rendered":"The BBC on Beslan"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the BBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Beslan school siege: Russia ‘failed to prevent’ massacre<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Given a massacre happened, I’d say so, yes.<\/p>\n

In the siege, Chechen separatists took more than 1,000 hostages, the vast majority of them children.<\/p>\n

It ended when Russian security forces stormed the building. Survivors say the troops used excessive force.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In all seriousness, and acknowledging that the siege would have been an enormous challenge for even the world’s most proficient counter-terrorism force, the Russian response\u00a0was absolutely shambolic in the most woeful sense of the word. It made Nord-Ost<\/a> look like Operation Entebbe<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And this:<\/p>\n

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Presumably the chap who does the bylines is Irish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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