[lbo-talk] Beslan mothers meet with Putin

[Wendy Lyon]

On 9/5/05, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Meeting on Friday with mothers of children killed in
> the Beslan school a year ago, President Vladimir Putin
> promised a thorough investigation into how the crisis
> was handled, but told them that Russia was not able to
> protect its citizens against terrorism.
> 
> He noted that the United States, Britain and Spain
> also had failed to prevent terrorist attacks, and said
> Russia was in a much more vulnerable position, which
> he blamed on the consequences of the Soviet collapse.

One of the Irish papers ran this story under the headline "Putin
refuses to guarantee security" which I think puts a slightly different
spin on it.