BESLAN, USA: Froggy Ruminations has some thoughts on the implications of Beslan for law enforcement training. Personally, I think that these lessons are more significant. But both are worth reading.

UPDATE: Mark Steyn observes:

Could what happened in Beslan happen in the US? Two months ago, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported on a fellow called Mohamad Kamal Elzahabi, a suspected terrorist who’d fought with his fellow jihadi in Chechnya and somehow wound up in Minnesota, where he’d applied for licences to transport hazardous materials and drive school buses.

As always, his whole column is worth reading.