Huge death toll as the siege ends in battle. More. More.

I have to admit that I am pretty spectical about the Russian claims of who started the fighting, because the story now told gets the Russian leadership out of the hook magnificently; they can claim that they neither stormed the building not caring for the lives of the hundreds of people kept hostage and neither they give in for terrorism.

Terrible thing, but I never thought that this would end otherwise. And the future hostage takings will have the same kind of endings as long as Vladimir Putin rules Russia.