Dozens of teenagers wearing black T-shirts that read “Anti-Terror” gathered Friday with weeping parents and students at the burned-out shell of Beslan’s School No. 1 to remember the 333 people who died in Russia’s worst terrorist attack.
With melancholy music playing over loudspeakers, hundreds filed past photographs and lighted candles to place red carnations on the floor of the school’s gymnasium, where several dozen Islamic militants took more than 1,100 students, teachers and parents hostage on Sept. 1, 2004.
The three-day ordeal, which saw hostages deprived of food and water, ended in a bloodbath after two powerful explosions rocked the school and security forces launched a chaotic rescue effort. More than half the 333 victims were children; most were killed by the blasts and ensuing gunfire or were burned to death in the blaze sparked by the explosions.
The mastermind was Abdallah Shamil Abu-Idris (Shamil Basayev), along with his Chechen-based Muslim jihadists. Yes, Islamofascists. Are you beginning to see that everything is not Bush’s fault?
So what were Shamil’s thoughts at the time?
In the name of God, Most Benevolent, Most Merciful! (Bismillah Rahman Rahim!)
Praise Allah, the Lord of the worlds, Who created us Muslims and Who blessed us with Jihad on His Straight Way. Peace and blessing of Almighty Allah be on Prophet Muhammad, his family, his disciples and all of those who follow the Straight Way until the Day of Judgment!
By the Mercy of Allah the past year of 2003 was very successful and very good year for us because for the past year our Mujahideen (fighters) managed to inflict great damages on Kafirs (infidels) and Munafiqs (hypocrites – national traitors) and to deal crushing blows on the enemy.
According to my information, for the year 2003 all Mujahideen in Chechnya and on the enemy soil have conducted over three thousand blasts, destroyed and disabled over 1,000 units of military vehicles including armored vehicles, shot down 31 helicopters, eliminated over 8,000 Kafirs and over 700 Munafiks (national traitors) who cooperated with the invaders’ regime.
We are all walking under God. And sooner or later we will all die. A death of one of us will change nothing. Because we are seeking a death of a martyr on the way of Allah, while Kafirs (infidels) and Munafiks (national traitors) are trying to extend their good-for-nothing lives. The Jihad will be continuing. Our entire history is the evidence.
The term for each one of us has been prescribed by Almighty Allah and no one will ever avoid this term. Almighty Allah says: «Death will befall ye, even if ye hide in the towers that ye have erected». For Muslims it is the Truth.
Praise God (Alhamdulillah!), we are dreaming of dying in Jihad, we are dreaming of dying on the way of Allah, so that we could earn Paradise and Mercy of Allah. Our dead are in Paradise, and your dead are in Hell. And our victors will also be in Paradise, and your losers will be humiliated and aggrieved.
The victory is near! And may Allah help us on His Straight Way!
Allah Akbar! (God is Great!)
Abdallah Shamil Abu-Idris,
Amir of Brigade of Shaheeds Riyadus Salihiin
Just one more enemy soldier fighting World War III while you sit at home eagerly awaiting the new season of “Desperate Housewives”.
