I find this action extremely chilling, to use children as hostages with a threat to kill them must plumb the depths that terrorist will reach.

Child hostages


Though Russia has treated the Chechen's extremely harshly I cannot understand how the Chechen group can expect any sympathy if they carry out their threats.

Also worrying is the Russian response. Their supposed crack teams used to free hostages in the Moscow theatre ended up killing many hostages, after which the Russian Govt clammed up.