Chechens Seize Moscow Theater
"The Shooting Began, We Covered Our Heads, But Then Everyone Fell Asleep"
Newspaper article
By: Julius Strauss, Ben Aris
Date: October 28, 2002
Source: "The Shooting Began, We Covered Our Heads, But Then Everyone Fell Asleep," published in the Daily Telegraph.
About the Author: The Daily Telegraph newspaper has been published in London since 1855.
INTRODUCTION
Just after 9:00 P.M. on October 23, 2002, the second act of Nord-Ost (Northeast), a popular romantic musical play, was just beginning after an intermission at a theater in the Dubrovka area of Moscow, Russia. Suddenly, about forty to fifty heavily armed Chechen terrorists, more than a third of...
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