KGB SUCCESSOR IMPLICATED IN MOSCOW BOMBINGS
Steve Gutterman, Associated Press, 7/26/02
http://www.ocregister.com/sitearchives/2002/7/26/nation_world/26chechcci1
MOSCOW -- A former Russian security agent offered evidence Thursday meant
to support his claim that the KGB's successor, not Islamic militants,
engineered a series of deadly bombings that thrust Russia into a new war in
Chechnya in 1999.
In a video link with Britain, where he fled two years ago, Alexander
Litvinenko said he received the evidence in a statement from Achimez
Gochiyayev, who Russia claims was paid $500,000 by a rebel warlord to
organize two apartment-building bombings in Moscow...
A few weeks after the last of four apartment-building explosions in
September 1999 - two in Moscow and two in southern Russia - President Boris
Yeltsin and his prime minister, former KGB agent Vladimir Putin, sent
Russian troops into Chechnya. Russian officials blamed the blasts on
Chechen rebels, though rebel leaders denied involvement and suggested the
security service organized them to justify the military campaign...
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