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	Russian apartment bombings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Russian apartment bombings were a series of bombings in Russia that killed nearly 300 people and led the country into the Second Chechen War.
		A caller to a Russian news agency said the blast was a response to recent Russian bombing of Chechen and Dagestan villages in response to the invasion of Dagestan.
		According to the official investigation, the apartment bombings were planned and organized by Arab terrorists fighting in Chechnya on the side of Chechen insurgents, Amir Khattab and Abu Umar (both of them were later killed in Chechnya).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Russian_Apartment_Bombings (1305 words)

	KGB's Terror Bombings in Moscow, Volgodonsk, Ryazan 1999
		The view that the bombings were the work of the Russian government is based on three types of evidence: the logic of the political situation at the time of the attacks; what is known about the bombings in Moscow, Buinaksk and Volgodonsk; and the implications of the so called "training exercise" in Ryazan.
		The bombings were explained as a response to the Russian bombing in August, 1999 of Wahhabi villages in Dagestan.
		The FSB said that the bomb was a dummy and that the explosive materials in the sacks attached to the detonator was sugar.
	www.tjetjenien.dk /baggrund/bombs.html (12637 words)

	Rebels open fire on Russians in Grozny (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Seven Russian soldiers were killed and 10 were wounded in the attacks, an official in the Russian-backed Chechen civilian administration said on condition of anonymity.
		Russian artillery continued to shell suspected rebel hide-outs in the Itum-Kale, Urus-Martan, Nozhai-Yurt and Vedeno districts in southern Chechnya, but Russian warplanes remained on the ground Sunday because of bad weather, the official said.
		Russian forces and rebels have clashed in small but bloody skirmishes for months, and in recent weeks the intensity of the fighting has appeared to increase.
	www.unb.ca /bruns/0001/issue12/intnews/grozny.html (346 words)

	Encyclopedia: Russian Apartment Bombings
		The first bombing, not of an apartment, occurred in Moscow, the Russian captial, on August 31, 1999.
		On September 4, a car bomb detonated outside an apartment building housing Russian soldiers in the city of Buinaksk, in the province of Dagestan.
		The motive for the invasion was further quenched when a truck bomb exploded September 16 outside a nine-story apartment complex in the southern Russian city of Volgodonsk, killing 17 people.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Russian-Apartment-Bombings (299 words)

	11 Die in Chechen Attacks
		Russian forces and rebels have clashed in small but bloody skirmishes for months, but in recent weeks the intensity has appeared to be increasing.
		The Russian shelling of the Itum-Kale, Urus-Martan, Nozhai-Yurt and Vedeno districts was the fiercest reported over the past month and a half.
		Russian officials did not immediately blame the killings on rebels, saying an investigation was underway.
	www.themoscowtimes.com /stories/2000/11/17/162-print.html (338 words)

	Religioscope > Archives > Chechnya: Amir Abu al-Walid and the Islamic component of the Chechen war
		The FSB claims that al-Walid organized the 1999 Russian apartment-block bombings, planned bacteriological attacks on Russia, and was behind the May 2002 Kaspiysk bombing in Daghestan.
		Russian journalist Anna Politkoyskaya (one of the few outsiders to report from behind Chechen lines) was quoted as saying none of the fighters she knew had ever seen al-Walid.
		The Muslim Brotherhood has vigorously denied any responsibility for the Grozny bombing or other violent acts, though they are likely involved in fund-raising for the Chechen mujhadin as well as their acknowledged funding of humanitarian organizations active in Chechnya.
	www.religioscope.info /article_88.shtml (1266 words)

	CNN - Report: Russian troops corner Chechen leader in arms-length campaign - October 12, 1999
		MOSCOW (CNN) -- Russian troops launched a new round of artillery fire in Chechnya on Tuesday and may have trapped a key leader of the Islamic militants they are trying to uproot, Russian sources reported.
		Russian troops have seized about a third of Chechnya in hopes of carving out a buffer between the rebel republic, which effectively escaped Moscow's rule in a 1994-1996 war, and neighboring Russian territories like Dagestan.
		The Russians are studiously avoiding the kind of tactics that resulted in tens of thousands of casualties in that war.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/europe/9910/12/russia.chechnya (552 words)

	Asia Times: Who gains from the Moscow apartment bombings?
		The target and death toll from the recent spate of bombings in Russia are inconsistent with previous acts of political or criminal retribution dating from 1996.
		Bomb attacks in Russia are forms of political protest, gang warfare and ultra-nationalism.
		Russians may be willing to believe that Chechens are attacking in Moscow as well as the Caucasus, but it is highly unlikely.
	www.atimes.com /c-asia/AI15Ag01.html (857 words)

	P2P-Zone - US to launch pre-election strike on Iran ? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A car bomb exploded outside the back gate of the U.S. Embassy in Rome and rockets were fired at the compound from across the street.
		The van bomb was planted in an underground garage and left 6 people dead and 1042 injured and almost ½ billion dollars in damage.
		Bombings of United States expatriate housing compounds in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia kill 26 and injure 160.
	www.p2p-zone.com /underground/showthread.php?t=20566 (5106 words)

	List of terrorist incidents - Simple English Wikipedia
		1982 Two bombs in Hyde Park and Regent's Park, London by the IRA killl 8 members of the Household Cavalry and the Royal Green Jackets.
		1984 IRA bomb in the Grand Hotel Brighton 5 are killed in an attempt to kill members of the British cabinet.
		1986 Berlin discotheque bombing On April 6, the La Belle discotheque, a known hangout for U.S. soldiers, was bombed, killing 3 and injuring 230 people, for which Libya is held responsible.
	simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents (2398 words)

	Russian Crime, Apartment Bombings - JRL 8-5-03
		If you ask most Russians about their lives, they will say that the picture of criminal anomie is one they do not recognise, since their daily life is happy and normal, like life in other countries, and moreover Russia is a great country with a currently booming economy.
		Satter arrives at the appalling conclusion that the Russian leadership itself was responsible for the bombings of the apartment buildings.
		The Ryazan bomb was intended to be the last and worst in a series of atrocities to be attributed to Chechen separatists.
	www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/7277-11.cfm (661 words)

	CNN.com - Rebel bombers target Russians in Chechnya towns, killing at least 37 - July 3, 2000
		Most of the victims were policemen -- brought in from Siberia to help restore order in a Chechen town -- who were killed when a suicide bomber struck near their military dormitory in a town near the capital of Grozny.
		Russian authorities say some rebels have blended into the civilian population and are using weapons stored in caches hidden in Russian-controlled territory.
		Russian troops were driven out of Chechnya in a 1994-96 war.
	edition.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/europe/07/03/russia.chechnya.02 (701 words)

	Russia Explodes Old Ammunition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Immediately after the blast, there were fears that it was another terrorist attack, like the four on Russian apartment buildings last month that killed about 300 people.
		Russian news agencies ran urgent bulletins and a television newscast interrupted its report to give news of the blast.
		The Russian government has blamed the militants for the apartment bombings last month.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/aponline/19991022/aponline111705_000.htm (210 words)

	Russia Offers Clues Linking Chechens to Apartment Bombings
		But the secretary of the Russian government's security council, Sergei Ivanov, said Russian forces were seeking two individuals in Grozny and in rebel-held southern Chechnya who they believe are tied to the crimes.
		In fact, both Russian and Chechen propagandists have been hurling wildly inflated accusations throughout the war, as well as gross underestimations of their own casualties and battlefield mistakes, so it is difficult to separate the war's truth from its fiction.
		After suffering their worst setbacks of the war this weekend, Russian troops appeared to have retaken strategic towns south of Grozny and claimed that they were on the offensive once more.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/world/europe/011300russia-chechnya.html (873 words)

	Mikhail Trepashkin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mikhail Trepashkin, a Moscow attorney and former FSB agent, was invited by MP Sergei Yushenkov to assist in an independent investigation of the Russian apartment bombings in September 1999 – the atrocities that provoked the second war in Chechnya and skyrocketed Vladimir Putin to presidency.
		Then two sisters whose mother was killed in one of the houses hired Trepashkin to represent them in the trial of two Russian Muslims accused of transporting explosives for the bombings.
		The case of Mikhail Trepashkin caught the attention of the Western press, caused an uproar among human rights campaigners, was put on record by Amnesty International, mentioned by the US State Department and even featured in an award-winning documentary Disbelief.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mikhail_Trepashkin (301 words)

	Chechnya: Background
		According to the Russian government, the "antiterrorist" operation it launched in 1999 was to have ended in March 2000, but it still continues.
		Even without bomb attacks on apartment blocks in Moscow and other urban centres (which some people believe were actually the work of Russian security services), the invasion of Dagestan by several hundred (mainly Chechen) rebels demanded a response.
		Russian army atrocities are enough to make any kind of collaboration with Moscow out of the question for the Chechens.
	www.tjetjenien.dk /chechnya/background.html (2182 words)

	Eric Margolis - FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT
		Russian journalists who reported on Moscow's crimes in the Caucasus were threatened with death, rape, or kidnapping.
		In late 1999, I wrote that the apartment bombings were a pretext to invade Chechnya and were likely a provocation staged by the Russian security service, FSB(successor to KGB).
		Then, in late 1999, after the four bombings, FSB agents were caught red-handed planting a large bomb in the basement of an apartment building in the city of Ryazan.
	www.bigeye.com /021502.htm (817 words)

	Swans Commentary: Russia's Sept. 11 - gowans18
		The export of Islamist secessionism to neighboring Dagestan and the Moscow apartment bombings.
		No one has ever been arrested for the apartment bombings and the Russian government has never offered compelling evidence that Chechens were behind them.
		Yet the apartment bombings were said to be the reason the campaign was launched.
	www.swans.com /library/art8/gowans18.html (787 words)

	NewsFromRussia.Com Mikhail Trepashkin, former Russian security service officer, will not be released
		Russian military forces are holding 10 days of exercises in the south region, aimed at training for anti-militant operations More details...
		Twelve Russian sailors held in Nigeria for nearly two years on charges of stealing crude oil are expected be handed over to their embassy on Monday, a Russian Embassy official said More details...
		Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived Friday at the 1,000-year-old monastic community of Mount Athos, in the first visit by a Russian head of state since the early 20th century Bolshevik revolution to what is regarded as the cradle of Orthodox Christianity More details...
	newsfromrussia.com /main/2005/09/16/63060.html (1520 words)

	Russia To Send Troops To Iraq? \| MetaFilter
		Not only are Russians overwhelmingly opposed to going into Iraq with their own people, (which explains why the public was supportive of pulling out their workers) this poll indicates that 51% believe that the coalition should leave Iraq too.
		I shouldn't have said "widely believed", but rather that the belief the FSB [the successor to the KGB] was involved in the apartment bombings is quite plausible and I've seen it brought up a lot in stories on Chechnya, Eric Margolis, Guardian.
		There is a whole website dedicated to the 9/99 apartment bombings: Terror 99, which has all the relevant information and raises the significant issues.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/34402 (2588 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Less than a week after a recent Russian airline tragedy, a female suicide bomber attacked a Moscow subway station; evidence indicates that Chechen separatists were likely the perpetrators of both attacks.
		LONDON: The majority of Russians awoke the morning of August 25 to familiar scenes of bewilderment and confusion, as news emerged that two Russian domestic airliners had disappeared and crashed within minutes of each other.
		He must placate the Russian government, handle the hawks eager for war in Chechnya, and convince the majority of the Chechen population that he is not merely a Russian stooge.
	yaleglobal.yale.edu /article.print?id=4448 (1263 words)

	Lawyer Investigating Apartment Bombings Sentenced to 4 Years - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Trepashkin was set to represent a bombing victim’s family in a trial in October where he planned to present evidence connecting the bombings and the Russian government.
		Russian TV has been showing off what looks like a rock, but is actually a sophisticated piece of spying equipment.
		Russian Orthodox Christians have a tradition of celebrating the Twelfth-Night (the Eve of the Epiphany) by swimming in ice-holes that symbolize the baptism of Jesus Christ in the river Jordan by John the Baptist.
	www.mosnews.com /news/2004/05/19/trepashkin.shtml (845 words)

	JRL - Terrorism, Apartment Bombings, Russian Secret Services
		The court didn’t hand down this verdict out of sympathy for the defendants, indeed it convicted them on other serious counts, but even by the standards of Russia’s servile court system, the evidence regarding their involvement in the Moscow terrorist acts was too obviously falsified.
		Berezovsky was the first to discover this, much to his displeasure, and immediately, in the summer of 2000, became ever more clear and harsh in his accusations that the authorities were involved in the apartment block bombings.
		Berezovsky is a creative man. He has invented a number of original methods of robbing the nation, from the re-export of Zhiguli cars and the ABBA financial scheme, to the privatization of the presidential family.
	www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/6030-1.cfm (913 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| Russian tycoon blames Moscow for blasts
		Exiled Russian media tycoon Boris Berezovsky says he believes Moscow orchestrated the 1999 bombings of apartment blocks in Russian cities which triggered Russia's onslaught in Chechnya.
		The Russian tycoon showed part of a French documentary at the news conference which linked two bombings in Moscow and one in Volgadonsk with an attempted attack in Ryazan, 200 km (125 miles) south-east of Moscow.
		He also has the backing of a Russian explosives expert, ex-FSB member and former director of the Russian Conversion Explosives Centre, Nikita Chekulin, who says that before the bombings, security services purchased large amounts of the explosive Hexogen, said to have been found at Ryazan.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1857000/1857060.stm (512 words)

	RUSSIA / CHECHNYA
		Moscow Correspondent Eve Conant reports Russian security officials say they have uncovered further evidence of Chechen involvement in a series of apartment blasts in Russia earlier this year.
		A Russian military officer in Shali told reporters his men would be more careful about clearing occupied villages of rebels.
		The appeal comes as Russia's Security Council says federal troops have uncovered evidence that Chechens were involved in a series of Russian apartment bombings earlier this year - a charge rebels have consistently denied.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2000/01/000112-chechen1.htm (478 words)

	Varifrank: Question of the Day: Is London Really Bush's Fault?
		July 5: the IRA detonate a 1500lb car bomb (the largest used in Northern Ireland) in the centre of Newtownards in Northern Ireland, no one is killed but massive property damage is caused to the town centre.
		Bombings in France by a GIA unit led by Khaled Kelkal kill seven and injure more than 100.
		February 27: Superferry 14 is bombed in the Philippines by Abu Sayyaf, killing 116.
	varifrank.com /archives/2005/07/question_of_the_2.php (3203 words)

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