Committed to PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO KNOW Vol. 5 Num 100 Thu. September 02, 2004       Front Page Hundreds held hostage at Russian school: 8 die A TV grab taken from the Russian NTV channel shows Russian special police forces troops evacuating a little girl and her mother in the northern Ossetian village of Beslan, some 15 kilometres outside Vladikavkaz, yesterday. PHOTO: AFP