An Ossetian boy places flowers on the wall of the school's gymnasium in Beslan. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (news - web sites) was expected to offer intelligence and humanitarian assistance to Russia after the Beslan hostage tragedy in talks with visiting Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.(AFP/Viktor Drachev)73

Local residents look at the destroyed school gymnasum in Beslan, North Ossetia. The first funerals for the hundreds killed in the Russian hostage siege took place in Beslan over the weekend. More than 300 people were killed as a result of the three-day school siege in southern Russia(AFP/Yuri Tutov)

An Ossetian boy places flowers on the wall of the school's gymnasium in Beslan, North Ossetia. The first funerals for the some hundreds killed in the Russian hostage siege took place at the weekend. More than 300 people were killed as a result of the three-day school siege in southern Russia(AFP/Viktor Drachev)

A man wipes tears during the funeral of killed sisters hostages Irina,13 and Alina,12 Tetova in the town of Beslan in the province of North Ossetia near Chechnya (news - web sites), September 5, 2004. REUTERS/Eduard Kornienko

Hug in Beslan : Two girls hug while they stand at the destroyed school gym in Beslan, North Ossetia. (AFP/Yuri Tutov)

Russian woman crosses herself in front of candles during a memorial service in Moscow for the victims of the three-day school siege in the southern Russia town of Beslan.(AFP/Alexander Nemenov)

Two girls hug while they stand at the destroyed school gym in Beslan, North Ossetia. The first funerals for the hundreds killed in the Russian hostage siege took place in Beslan, an AFP correspondent reported.(AFP/Yuri Tutov)

A worker leaves the dome as the Russian state flag flies at half staff over Moscow's Kremlin, early September 6, 2004. Russia will observe two days of mourning on Monday and Tuesday for 338 hostages who died in the school siege in Beslan, as uncomfortable questions started arising about how the hostage drama could have happened. REUTERS/Alexander Natruskin

A suspected hostage-taker is seen in Beslan, North Ossetia, Russia in this image from television shown on Sunday, Sept. 5, 2004. The man shown Sunday on Channel One, who was referred to not as a suspect but as one of the attackers, was not identified by name or place of origin. Two days after the bloody end of a hostage crisis that left more than 350 people dead, the identity of the attackers who seized a school in the ethnic patchwork of Russia's North Caucasus region remained uncertain Sunday. (AP Photo/Channel One-Russian Television Channel)

A suspected hostage-taker is seen in Beslan, North Ossetia, Russia in this image from television shown on Sunday, Sept. 5, 2004. The man shown Sunday on Channel One, who was referred to not as a suspect but as one of the attackers, was not identified by name or place of origin. Two days after the bloody end of a hostage crisis that left more than 350 people dead, the identity of the attackers who seized a school in the ethnic patchwork of Russia's North Caucasus region remained uncertain Sunday. (AP Photo/Channel One-Russian Television Channel)

A suspected hostage-taker is seen in Beslan, North Ossetia, Russia in this image from television shown on Sunday, Sept. 5, 2004. The man shown Sunday on Channel One, who was referred to not as a suspect but as one of the attackers, was not identified by name or place of origin. Two days after the bloody end of a hostage crisis that left more than 350 people dead, the identity of the attackers who seized a school in the ethnic patchwork of Russia's North Caucasus region remained uncertain Sunday. (AP Photo/Channel One-Russian Television Channel)

Relatives of sisters Irina, foreground, and Alina Tetova, background, killed in the school siege, cry at their funeral in Beslan, North Ossetia, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2004. Wails of mourning echoed through the streets of this southern Russian town on Sunday in the wake of the school hostage taking that left at least 350 people dead. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Men identified as masked police officers hold a suspected hostage-taker in Beslan, North Ossetia, Russia, in this image from television shown on Sunday, Sept. 5, 2004. The man shown Sunday on Channel One, who was referred to not as a suspect but as one of the attackers, was not identified by name or place of origin. Two days after the bloody end of a hostage crisis that left more than 350 people dead, the identity of the attackers who seized a school in the ethnic patchwork of Russia's North Caucasus region remained uncertain Sunday. The sign reads Beslan. (AP Photo/Channel One-Russian Television Channel)

Fatima Tetova, mother of killed hostages Irina,13 and Alina,12, cry during their funeral in the town of Beslan in the province of North Ossetia near Chechnya (news - web sites) , September 5, 2004. REUTERS/Eduard Kornienko

Relatives of sisters Irina and Alina Tetova, killed in the school siege, cry at their funeral in Beslan, north Ossetia, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2004. Wails of mourning echoed through the streets of this southern Russian town on Sunday in the wake of the school hostage taking that left at least 350 people dead. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Relatives cry at the funeral of victims of the school siege in Beslan, north Ossetia, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2004. Wails of mourning echoed through the streets of this southern Russian town on Sunday in the wake of the school hostage taking that left at least 350 people dead. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Relatives of a killed hostage, 8-year-old Teimuraz Morgoyev, cry during his funeral in the town of Beslan, September 5, 2004. The sound of weeping mothers who lost their sons and daughters in Russia's school siege drifted out of the homes of Beslan on Sunday as the first burials were held for some of the 338 people killed. REUTERS/Viktor Korotayev

The mother of sisters Irina and Alina Tetova, killed in the school hostage taking, mourns during
their funeral in Beslan, North Ossetia, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2004. Wails of mourning echoed through the streets of this southern Russian town on Sunday in the wake of the school hostage taking that left at least 350 people dead. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Muscovites stand in line to donate their blood at a blood transfusion center in Moscow, September 5, 2004. The siege, and the storming by troops which ended it with more than 330 dead in the Russia's southern town of Beslan, broke grim new ground, even by the brazen and bloody standards of past Chechen rebels attacks. REUTERS/Alexander Natruskin

A woman cries while laying flowers at a wall covered with photos of the Beslan hostage crisis, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Sunday Sept. 5, 2004. Wails of mourning echoed Russia on Sunday in the wake of the school hostage taking that left more than 350 people _ nearly half of them children _ dead. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Relatives and neighbors of killed hostages attend the funeral ceremony in the town of Beslan in the province of North Ossetia near Chechnya (news - web sites), September 5, 2004. The sound of weeping mothers who lost their children in the bloody end to Russia's school siege drifted out of the houses of Beslan on Sunday as relatives prepared to bury the first of 333 people killed. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin

Relatives cry at a funeral in Beslan, North Ossetia, on Sunday Sept. 5, 2004, for victims killed in the school hostage taking. Wails of mourning echoed through the streets of Beslan, a southern Russian town, on Sunday in the wake of the school hostage taking that left at least 350 people dead. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Relatives and neighbors carry the coffins containing the bodies of two sisters Irina,13 and Alina,12 Tetova, killed in the school siege, during their funeral in the town of Beslan in the province of North Ossetia near Chechnya (news - web sites), September 5, 2004. The sound of weeping mothers who lost their sons and daughters in Russia's school siege drifted out of the homes of Beslan on Sunday as the first burials were held for some of the 338 people killed. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin