Moscow Hostage Crisis
Demetrios Athanasopoulos Informative Speech October 23,2003 Section-007 Outline Specific purpose statement: After listening to my speech my audience will know of the The Moscow Hostage Crisis and understand it better. ... Preview: Id like to talk to you about what happened to 800 people attending a play at Moscow. ... on the 23rd of October 2002, forty-one Chechen separatists calling themselves the Islamic Suicide Squad took more than 800 Moscow theatergoers hostage. ... They took everyone inside hostage and told authorities they had mined the building. ... This precipitated a 57-hour crisis that captured the worlds attention. ... The Chechens resorted to terrorism because they believed the timing was right to confront the regime in Moscow with their demands. ... He would be forced to react to the Moscow theater incident to maintain his reputation. ... Conclusion The terrorist had failed to succed at their plans of ending the war but had taken 129 hostage lives.