Mosnews: "FSB North Ossetian chief Valery Andreyev says that twenty hostage-takers have been killed in Beslan; ten of them turned out to have come to Russia from Arab countries, RIA Novosti reported. Aslambek Aslakhanov, advisor to the Russian president, quoted a different figure, saying only nine were Arabs, RIA Novosti writes."

Like the New York Times, Russian newspapers have a hard time calling it terrorism. To do so, means you have to make a moral judgement. If newspapers are unwilling to recognize evil, how can they be trusted in their judgement of "good?"

UPDATE: “The majority of patients have bullet wounds in the back, " That is how Itar-Tass describes the carnage.

“Six hundred and forty-six people, including 227 children, were hospitalized following the terrorist act in Beslan,” sources in the Russian Ministry for Civil Defense and Emergencies and the North Ossetian Health Ministry told Itar-Tass.

The Command Post is following the story as are other blogs.