The self-styled enemies of terror may yet turn out to be its friends

IT IS hard to understand how anybody in his or her right mind could ever try to justify what happened in Beslan last week.

Yet that is effectively what some of John Kerry's critics are trying to do in the United States.

On Wednesday, the Irish Examiner published a front-page photograph of 10-year-old Georgi Farniyev sitting with his hands behind his head while the terrorists videoed the scene.