Children Testify in Court to Horrors of Beslan

-Hamas has distributed posters and tapes throughout PA-controlled territory, turning the mastermind of the Beslan operation into a heroic martyr.

-The mainstream media attempted to cover up the fact that the perpetrators were Islamists who clearly saw themselves as part of the Global Jihad.

-This is part of a pattern of Jihad operations in which brutal rape is a motif. (e.g. in Darfur: "Each of us was raped by between three and six men?.One woman refused to have sex with them, so they split her head into pieces with an axe in front of us.") Islamists find ample justification for this in the Koran.

-Because Israel has expertise with child terror, victims were airlifted to hospitals in Israel. All costs were picked up by a Jewish charity.

A 10-year-old boy testified Thursday, August 25th in the trial of the one lone terrorist to be captured alive after the siege in Beslan. One of the female terrorists ... told us that if she found a phone on anyone, that person would be killed and three more people near him or her would be killed too.

Malik Kalchakeyev, 14, speaking slowly and in great detail, told of how the schoolchildren and their parents were herded into the school's gym, how the attackers stopped providing water and how they taunted the exhausted hostages, often forcing them to stand and sit quickly in the hot, crowded gym.

"On the second day, we were all very thirsty. Women told us, the boys, to pee into plastic bottles so that the children could then drink our pee," the boy said, bursting into tears. "I peed into a bottle, and small children -- even babies -- drank it."

Alan Kochiyev, 13, told how the attackers shot a hostage in the gym. He also recalled how they forced a boy sitting next to him to stand up and threatened to shoot him if the hostages did not keep quiet.

A 17-year-old girl testified that the hostage takers gave a bucket of water to one boy and told him to give it only to the children. They said that if any adult drank the water, they would shoot the boy.

One gunman, whose pockets were stuffed with grenades, held up the corpse of a man just shot in front of hundreds of hostages and warned: "If a child utters even a sound, we?ll kill another one."

After more than 24 hours in the sweltering heat of the school gymnasium in Beslan, one of the boys trapped inside could not take it any longer.

Summoning up his courage, he approached a hostage taker with a bayonet fixed to his assault rifle and asked him for a drink. It was probably the worst error that he could have made.

?Instead of giving him water, he drove his bayonet through the boy?s body,? said Stanislav Tsarakhov, 10, another captive standing nearby. ?I don?t know if he died.?

On the last day of the siege the terrorists did not allow anyone to use the bathroom.

Some children ate plants that were in the building, because they were so hungry.

When the hostages tried to escape as the storming took place they were shot in the back, one of the hostages claims that one of the terrorists who was shooting was smiling as the children were falling.