How about it skeptics?
'The Ryazan incident on September 22, 1999 prompted the initial speculation in the Western press that the Moscow bombings were organized by the FSB, the Russian domestic intelligence service.[14]
The FSB were caught by local police and citizens in the city of Ryazan planting a bomb with a detonator in the basement of an apartment building at the address of 14/16 Novosyelov on the night of September 22, 1999 [5]. Explosives experts arriving at the scene found that the bomb tested positive for hexogen (i.e., RDX) [6]. On September 24, 1999, Nikolai Patrushev, the head of the FSB, said on the NTV channel that the bomb in the basement of the apartment had been a dummy and that the FSB had been conducting a test [7]. The FSB officially stated that the gas analyzer that detected hexogen had malfunctioned, and that the substance in the dummy bomb was sugar.[15]
In December 1999 Robert Young Pelton interviewed GRU officer Aleksey Galkin who was captured by Chechen rebels while in Grozny during the Russian siege, under surveillance of Abu Movsaev - director of state security department of self-proclaimed Ichkerian Republic[16],. Galkin who was a rebels prisoner allegedly admitted to Pelton that the apartment bombing in Buynaksk was organized by a GRU team under general command of head of the 14th section of the Central Intelligence Office Lt. Gen. Kostechko and GRU director Valentin Korabelnikov. [17] [18][19] Pelton writes about this in his book Three Worlds Gone Mad. [20]. However Chechen rebels tortured Galkin to extort this confession [18] [16]
Yet, Yuri Tkachenko, the explosives expert who defused the bomb insisted that it was real. Tkachenko said that the explosives, including a timer, power source, and detonator were genuine military equipment and obviously prepared by a professional. He also said that the gas analyzer that tested the vapors coming from the sacks unmistakably indicated the presence of hexogen. Tkachenko said that it was out of the question that the analyzer could have malfunctioned, as the gas analyzer was of world class quality, costing $20,000 and was maintained by a specialist who worked according to a strict schedule, checking the analyzer after each use and making frequent prophylactic checks. Tkachenko pointed out that meticulous care in the handling of the gas analyzer was a necessity because the lives of the bomb squad's experts depended on the reliability of their equipment. The police officers who answered the original call and discovered the bomb also insisted that the incident was not an exercise and that it was obvious from its appearance that the substance in the bomb was not sugar.[1][15]
Alexander Litvinenko, a former FSB officer, claimed that apartment bombings were organized by FSB and GRU agents in his book Gang from Lubyanka. On 29 December 2003 Russian authorities confiscated over 5000 copies of the book en route to Moscow from the publisher in Latvia.[21] Litvinenko also published the book "Blowing up Russia: Terror from within". A movie with the same title was produced [22] The film accused Russian special services of organizing the explosions in Volgodonsk and Moscow. According to research carried out by two French journalists, Jean-François Deniau and Charles Gazelle, the explosions were carried out by FSB to provide justification for the continuation of the Second Chechen War, which in turn helped Putin beat the communists in the presidential election of 2000.[citation needed] The movie and Litvinenko books were partially sponsored by Russian businessmen Boris Berezovsky whose impartiality in this case has been challenged in Russian media.
In April 2002 on a visit to Washington, Duma member Sergei Yushenkov pointed to a mysterious remark by the Duma speaker Gennadiy Seleznyov, from which it appeared that Seleznyov had known about one of the explosions three days before the fact.[23][24][25] The Russian Public Prosecutor Office had replied to Yushenkov's inquiry by stating that Seleznyov was referring to an unrelated hand grenade-based explosion, which indeed happened in Volgodonsk three days earlier.[26]
A documentary "Nedoverie" (Disbelief[27][28]) about the bombing controversy by Russian director Andrei Nekrasov was premiered at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. The film chronicles the story of Tatyana and Alyona Morozova, the two Russian-American sisters, who had lost their mother in the attack, and decided to find out who did it.[29]
On May 20, 2004, an article in the Los Angeles Times described the conviction on an unrelated state secret charge of Mikhail Trepashkin, appointed by a public committee, set up by four members of the Russian parliament, to investigate the bombings[citation needed]. Trepashkin was arrested shortly before he was to make his findings public [8]. The article states that FSB agent Vladimir Romanovich was identified by several witnesses as the man who rented the basement of one of the bombed buildings; Romanovich subsequently died in a car crash in Cyprus. Trepashkin's wife declared that the police planted the weapon in order to fabricate a case against her husband. [30].[31] He was recognized as a political prisoner by Amnesty International.
On 18 January 2003 Yuri Felshtinsky provided Novaya Gazeta with a video recording and its transcript.[32] The video dated 20 August 2002 contained an interview with unknown individual claiming to be Gochiyayev. The authors edited out the names of an FSB agent and another person from the interviewee's story. The authors asked for money in exchange for the missing details.
In February 2005 Yuri Felshtinsky received an audio cassette and a written statement from an unnamed mediator without pay[citation needed]. The statement made by Gochiyayev or orchestrated by his kidnappers said that he was just an unknowing participant in a plot organized by an undercover FSB agent, his former acquaintance Ramazan Dyshekov.[33] This story contradicted the name of the FSB agent Vladimir Romanovich disclosed by Trepashkin one day before his arrest.[34]
Among Western scholars, the theory of FSB involvement in the bombings has been championed by Johns Hopkins University and Hoover Institute scholar David Satter, the former Financial Times correspondent in Moscow, in his book Darkness at Dawn: the Rise of the Russian Criminal State ISBN 0-300-09892-8, published by Yale University Press.[35]'
'former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko, Johns Hopkins University and Hoover Institute scholar David Satter,[1] and Russian lawmaker Sergei Yushenkov asserted that the bombings were in fact a "false flag" attack perpetrated by the FSB in order to legitimate the resumption of military activities in Chechnya and bring Vladimir Putin and FSB to power.'
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