Well since Gnab is Aptyp, someone that came from Russia he has an idea about it, though his solution was tried before and didn`t worked (actually made things worse). He`s thinking of the Chechnian atrocities videos that i`ve seen too, they are awfull crimes, although i`ve see similar Russian atrocities videos. The thing Aptyp has to think is that by attacking without discretion all Checchnians Putun would be on the same moral grounds the monsters that made the siege were. I know that`s dificult but try to breath calmly and think of the spiral of events that would occur. Now it`s time fpr the international community for once to take Putin seriously (but just this once, Russian autocrats don`t have a good record) and understand the close links between Chechen rebels, drug dealers from the caspian routes and the Chechen mafia and operationals and financiers from the Al-Qaeda.
But when the west thinks of that region they only see the richesses from the mineral reserves of the Caspian Sea and the pipelines...
Now CCR please be carefull with your comparisions, since Indonesians from the Suharto days made similar things to this event, not the other way around, i have many many friends and colleagues from East Timor and that was really painfull to read.