Mourning Rodina

The Russian people are pissed; pissed at the government for not being exactly forthcoming with the number of hostages, but more importantly pissed that they were the victim of terrorist scum that killed children. Putin reacts the only way he can and should:

In a nationally televised meeting, Prosecutor-General Vladimir Ustinov also briefed Putin on the investigation into the taking of more than 1,200 hostages in a school last week in the southern town of Beslan.
His was the first official acknowledgment that the number of hostages had been so high; the government initially said about 350 people were seized. A regional official later said the number had been 1,181.

Col.-Gen. Yuri Baluyevsky, chief of the general staff of Russia's armed forces, asserted Russia's right to strike terrorists beyond its borders.
"As for carrying out preventive strikes against terrorist bases ... we will take all measures to liquidate terrorist bases in any region of the world," he told reporters.
Baluyevsky made his comments alongside NATO's supreme allied commander in Europe, Gen. James Jones, after talks on Russia-NATO military cooperation, including anti-terror efforts.
European Union officials reacted cautiously to Baluyevsky's statements, with spokeswoman Emma Udwin saying she could not be sure whether they represented government policy. Udwin said the 25-nation EU is against "extra-judicial killings" in form of pre-emptive strikes.

Wow, the EU reacted cautiously, I'm utterly shocked. Imagine a joint Russian/NATO attack on al-Qaeda and terrorism. The intel from the Mossad, former KGB, MI5, and CIA, that if shared would be awesome. I restate my position that al-Qaeda or their surrogates might have made a serious miscalculation killing children.