The Hostage Crisis Continues In Russian School

BESLAN, RUSSIA - SEPTEMBER 2: Russian forces brace for a siege around the school where some 350 hostages, most of them women and children, are being held by suspected Chechen militants on September 2, 2004, one day after the drama began in Beslan, Russia.The terrorist attack in the southern Russian region of North Ossetia, near war-ravaged Chechnya in the Caucasus, was the third to hit Russia in eight days, raising questions about President Vladimir Putin's hardline Chechnya policy. (Photo by Scott Peterson/Getty Images)