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I think you have all been reading too much Tom Clancy or playing Counter Strike and Splinter Cell.
There is NO WAY Special Forces could attack a well defended group of hostage takers without their having a chance to detonate the explosive belts they were wearing.
Maintenance tunnels... infrared cameras...
Sheesh.
The point of the exercise is to show you that sometimes there is very little you can do. Either attack them, and accept that it may end in a bloodbath, or bow to their demands. In other words, those who criticise the Russians or suggest their own "super plans" are missing the point. You can't do much against a man or woman with 5Kg of Semtex on his body, who is surrounded by children and willing to blow themselves to buggery, without warning their 16 other terrorists companions that something is up.
In other words, it's a lose lose situation.
Gas "worked" once. I doubt it will work again. Perhaps there will be a miracle and Spetznaz will indeed end up in taking the hostage takers out before they murder the children. But I doubt it. Another tragedy is at hand I fear...
Mr Mephisto
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