Hold all the world leaders in the below piece to their word. (sorry for the long post I didnt want to lose the link) Get them to start doing something about it now..all together..as one! All we hear over and over from world leaders are condoles after a tragedy.
It is time to act...for future generations. The UN crap takes too long
get all of the world leaders in a back room some where..map out a plan and just do it.
Just go into any nation that might be harboring terrorists..or nation that might have any connection to terrorists (money trails, etc) and take them over...clean out the leaders or the terrorists and move on...(hey isnt that GWBs plan) ...the time has come! NEXT!
from
www.cnn.com
Russian school siege jolts world leaders
More than 200 feared dead in attack
Friday, September 3, 2004 Posted: 6:06 PM EDT (2206 GMT)
PARIS, France (AP) -- World leaders expressed horror over the bloody climax of Russia's hostage crisis Friday, saying the barbaric attack on school children showed terrorists have sunk to new lows, and some experts warned that Russia's Chechnya conflict was becoming the next crossroads of international terrorism.
"The series of escalating attacks in Russia this month leaves no doubt that the conflict in Chechnya is a matter of international, not merely internal, security," said Celeste Walander, director of CSIS Russia and Eurasia Program in Washington, D.C.
Messages of solidarity and shock poured in from capitals worldwide as a three-day standoff at a school turned into a gunfight between Russian commandos and Chechen militants holding hundreds of hostages. An official said the death toll could be far more than 200.
"We have been confronted with a deep human tragedy," said Dutch Foreign Minister Ben Bot, speaking on behalf of the European Union. "This shows once again that we have to do everything in our power to confront terrorism."
As images of wailing mothers outside the school in Beslan, Russia, were beamed around the world, and bloodied figures were seen wheeled away on stretchers, many decried the violence as heinous new territory for terrorists.
"This is a new dimension of terrorism," said German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.
"There are no reasons imaginable that could justify taking children, toddlers, babies and their mothers hostages," said German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer.
U.S. President George W. Bush called the siege "another grim reminder of the length to which terrorists will go to threaten this civilized world."
"We mourn the innocent lives that have been lost," Bush said. "We stand with the people of Russia, we send them our prayers for this terrible situation."
Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Santan Lopes lamented "what the world has come to. We feel a sense of revulsion."
The Foreign Ministry in France, caught in a hostage drama of its own with two French journalists held in Iraq, called for "everyone to mobilize in the fight against terrorism."
Among 20 militants killed Friday, there were 10 Arabs, said Valery Andreyev, Russia's Federal Security Service chief in the region where the school is located. President Vladmir Putin's adviser on Chechnya, Aslanbek Aslakhanov, also said some dead militants were Arab mercenaries.
The presence of Arab attackers would lend greater credence to Putin's contention that al-Qaida terrorists were involved in the Chechen conflict, where Muslim fighters have battled Russian forces in a brutal a war of independence for most of the past decade.
In Israel, the Foreign Ministry said Israelis "identify with the Russian people and government in these difficult hours."
There is no difference between terror in Beersheba and terror in Beslan. The entire international community must denounced these acts and unite in the war against terror," the ministry said.
The European Union directed veiled criticism at Russia's handling of the crisis, saying it regretted the violence and bloodshed.
"It's very difficult to judge from a distance whether the right decision was taken or not," said Bot, whose country holds the EU's rotating presidency. He apparently referred to Russian forces' decision to storm the school where the militants took their hostages.
However, the 25-nation bloc understood that Russian authorities had few options, Bot said. He said the tragedy highlighted the need for Russia to end the Chechen conflict and that the EU would continue to push for a peaceful resolution.
Swedish Prime Minister Goeran Persson said the "evil deed" of targeting children would bring the international community together. It makes the world "understand what times we're living in, how vulnerable our communities are and what types of crimes and terror we have to deal with," he told Swedish news agency TT.
"It is hard to express my revulsion at the inhumanity of terrorists prepared to put children and their families through such suffering," British Prime Minister Tony Blair wrote in a letter to Putin.
Blair's foreign secretary, Jack Straw, added that the fight against terrorism is "one we have to win."
"The international community has to unite against terrorism that denies common human values to all the world's civilizations," said Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. "There is no reason that could justify such inhuman violence."
Italy's president, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, added: "The perverse cycle of violence must be stopped by firmness in countering terrorism and by clear sight in confronting its causes."
From the Middle East, several leaders cabled Putin to convey condolences and denounce the hostage-takers.
Lebanese President Emile Lahoud said Beirut "denounces all forms of terror, especially that which threatens the lives of children and innocents." A similar message was sent by Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sheik Sabah Al Ahmed Al Sabah.
In Jordan, government spokeswoman Asma Khader condemned the hostage-taking as "heinous," saying "no cause can be achieved by such criminal means."
International organizations were outraged.
"I am appalled that a school and its pupils are being used for political ends," UNESCO Director-General Koichiro Matsuura said in a statement. "Schools are where children learn to live together. The safety of schools must never be threatened. I condemn these actions in the strongest possible terms."