The Globe and Mail: "The hostage-takers, in their own minds, were only playing by the rules set by the Russian army. 'They told us that their own children have been killed by Russians and they have nothing to lose,' Zalina Dzandarova, one of a handful of hostages released before the bloody climax, told the newspaper Kommersant?. 'I asked one of them how they could put the lives of our children in danger like this. He answered that no one asked his opinion about anything when his children were being killed.'"