Monday, September 06, 2004

Manhattan on the Volga

There's no month like September in which to ponder the terror that states can visit upon their own peoples. And perhaps, given the lengthening Yukos body count, Vladmir Putin's angry rejection of a public inquiry into the Beslan school catastrophe, and the alleged poisoning of journalist and leading critic of Chechen policy Anna Politkovskaya, we ought to take a moment to remember the fifth anniversary of Russia's wave of Chechen-blamed apartment bombings.

Remember the news from Russia in September 1999? An apartment building explodes, thought by many to have been caused by a gas leak. But then another blows up, and another, and another.... The bombings killed 300 people, caused Putin's popularity to soar prior to a presidential election, and won him broad support for his war in Chechnya, the Chechens having been duly demonized.

It looked like the straightforward case of the darkskinned evildoers with whom we've become so well acquainted. But while Chechen suspects were arrested with great fanfare, they were released with little notice months later, and there were other troubling indicators that not all was as it seemed:

  • On September 14 Duma Speaker Gennady Seleznev, known for his close ties to Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), referred to a terrorist attack of the previous night. But he made a mistake: instead of mentioning the bombings at Moscow's Kashirskoye Shosse, he spoke about a building having been blown up in Volgodonsk, which didn't happen until three days later.
  • On the night of September 22 sacks of a white powder, which experts soon determined was the powerful explosive hexogen, were found in the basement of an apartment building in the city of Ryazan. A tragedy seemed to have been narrowly averted, as the detonator had been set for the next morning at 5:30am. Local police arrested two suspects within 48 hours. To the surprise of the arresting officers, the suspects produced identification linking them to the FSB. The government's story quickly changed: the incident was actually an FSB "readiness exercise," and the sacks contained nothing but sugar.
  • Shortly after the Moscow bombings, Private Alexei Pinyaev discovered sacks marked "sugar" at a military warehouse he was guarding near Ryazan. Pinyaev and a fellow paratrooper stuck one with a bayonette and tipped some of its contents into a plastic bag to sweeten their tea, but it had a strange taste and wasn't at all sweet. He took the bag to a platoon commander who, suspecting something wasn't right, had it checked by an explosives specialist. It was established that the sacks contained hexogen, the explosive used in the bombings and the same that the Ryazan apartment "sugar" sacks had inititally been said to contain. The FSB descended upon the base and interrogated Pinyaev for "revealing a state secret," and his unit was promptly shipped to Chechnya.
  • In March 2002 Nikita Chekulin, the Deputy Director of Moscow Explosives Research Institute, sought asylum in Britain. He disclosed documents proving that large quantities of hexogen had been illegally transferred from military depots to several front companies which he suspected were set up by the FSB, and the FSB suppressed police investigation of the transactions.
Wednesday evening, in a small theatre in north Moscow, Andrei Nekrasov's documentary challenging the official story of the terror campaign, Disbelief, will receive only its second Russian screening, though it has garnered broad international acclaim and caused him to be hailed as the "Russian Michael Moore." Nekrasov, in fact, eclipses Moore, who presses no further than the implausible limited hang-out of "the Saudis did it."

From The Moscow Times:

In scenes from the documentary, [survivor] Tatyana meets others whose lives were torn apart by the blasts -- both bombing victims and those who suffered in other ways. She visits Timur Dakhkilgov, one of the Chechens who were arrested after the explosion, charged with terrorism and quietly released three months later. She attempts to secure the release of official documents. She meets the former Chechen warlord, Akhmed Zakayev. She hires a former lieutenant colonel in the Federal Security Service, or FSB, Mikhail Trepashkin as a lawyer. Trepashkin was later convicted on charges of divulging state secrets, in what human rights organizations called an attempt to squash his investigations.

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Nekrasov says he has not met any serious resistance to showing the film in Russia. But when Trepashkin was arrested, Nekrasov made another documentary compiled from interviews with Trepashkin. After a Moscow screening, Nekrasov said he noticed a strange car following him all the way across town. "I just felt like I was dreaming," he said. "I felt like getting out of my car and screaming, 'What do you want from me?'"

Later, the master copy of the Trepashkin film was stolen out of the director's briefcase. Nekrasov's documents were stolen from his jacket pocket on the day he was to fly out of Moscow. "It was a nightmare," he says. "My mouth went dry."


It's good for 9/11 skeptics to recall 1962's Operation Northwoods, the Joint Chiefs' proposal to unleash a false-flag wave of Cuban terror on American soil to precipitate a war against Castro. The Kennedy Administration flatly rejected the plan, and it did not become public knowledge - such as it has - for nearly 40 years. If Kennedy had given the green light, one would have been called a "conspiracy theorist" and worse for suggesting Cuba had been set up and that the real terrorists were men like Admiral Lyman Lemnitzer, though one would have been absolutely correct.

It's also good to recall that governments pull this shit all the time. 9/11 was unique only by order of magnitude.

" I looked the man in the eye," George Bush said after his first meeting with Putin in June 2001. "I was able to get a sense of his soul."

A few months later, and two years after the Russian terror campaign, and it's Moscow on the Hudson.

15 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

The "angry rejection of a public inquiry into the Beslan school catastrophe" reminds me of a similar behavior of Bush some time ago. As far as I know, it is, up to now, not even clear how many hostages were held and exactly how many of them are dead now. Even less is known about the terrorists. As with 9/11, the officials prefer to leave it that way.

It is further interesting that the hostages who were allowed to leave in the first days were quickly brought away by the officials and not allowed to talk to the media.

Naturally, these critical question will never make it to mainstream media outlets, only in indirect form (à la "theory mentioned in a movie").

gandalf

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Blogger spooked said...

Another excellent post.

I've been wondering about the Russian terror attacks, and as horrible as it seems, if they are state-sponsored.

In this case, what really caused the problem was the heavy-handed attack on the school-house by the Russians. If this was a staged terrorist action, would the Russians have attacked in this way?

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