the hostage crises.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/washpost/20040906/ts_wash
post/a64187_2004sep5
" As for the hostage-takers, Deputy Prosecutor General Sergei Fridinsky
said authoritatively on Saturday there were 26 of them, and all had been
killed. On Sunday, he said there were 32 -- 30 of them dead -- and
bragged about the capture of one "member of the gang" who was to be
charged in court on Monday.
Putin made no public comment Sunday on the deadliest terrorist attack of
his presidency, and no senior member of his government has commented
publicly since the siege began at 9 a.m. Wednesday. A day after the
president vowed in a televised address to take unspecified new security
measures in response to the killing of "defenseless children," the
Kremlin was silent on what those steps would be.
Sergei Markov, a political analyst with close ties to the Kremlin, said
the deadly outcome of the school standoff had left Putin at a loss as to
how to respond beyond the former KGB colonel's instinct to strengthen
police powers and centralize control over government institutions. "They
don't know what to do," he said. "Vladimir Putin didn't explain in
detail what will be happening."
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Apparently scrambling for a response in Post Communist times.
-Gel
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