[Kevin]

Cash, I agree with you that this is Russia's 9/11. In saying that, part of 9/11 was that it really was not preventable. How the heck to you prevent a bunch of Muslim-seperatist rebel/terrorists from storing weapons in a school, then storming it? How could you predict this would be the way they attacked? The closest they've done to this was the Moscow theatre. We all remember how Russia seemed to forget about that one so quickly.

I'm not sure that this will have the same impact on Russia that 9/11 did on us. Even if public sentiment swings a certain way, the simple fact is that Russia can't really afford to do anything about this stuff.