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From: Mateen Siddiqui [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 12:04:22 -0500
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Subject: Fw: Terror bombing known 4 months before
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> The Independent (UK)
> 29 January 2000
>
> Russia 'planned Chechen war before bombings'
>
> Former Prime Minister reveals invasion of republic was prepared months
> in advance of terrorist attacks
>
> By Patrick Cockburn in Moscow
>
> A senior Russian leader says that Russia made its plans to invade
> Chechnya
> six months before the bombing of civilian targets in Russia and the
> Chechen
> attack on Dagestan which were the official pretext for launching the
> war.
>
> His account wholly contradicts the official Russian version of the start
> of
> the war, which claims that it was only as a result of "terrorist"
> attacks
> last August and September that Russia invaded Chechnya. Sergei
> Stepashin,
> Russian Interior and Prime Minister for most of last year, said the plan
> to
> send the Russian army into Chechnya "had been worked out in March". He
> says
> he played a central role in organising the military build up before the
> invasion, which "had to happen even if there were no explosions in
> Moscow".
>
> Mr Stepashin, in recent interviews with the daily Nezavissimaya Gazeta
> and
> Interfax agency, says that as early as last March Russia intended to
> invade
> Chechnya as far as the Terek river north of Grozny, the Chechen capital,
> in
> August or September. In fact the Russian army crossed into Chechnya on 1
> October.
>
> Mr Stepashin, Interior Minister up to May and then Prime Minister until
> August, was at the centre of Russian decision-making in both jobs. He
> says
> the inner cabinet held a closed meeting with army and security chiefs in
> March to discuss the operation against Chechnya.
>
> The revelation by Mr Stepashin, that Russia planned to go to war long
> before
> it has previously admitted, lends support to allegations in the Russian
> press
> that the invasion of Dagestan in August and the bombings in September
> were
> arranged by Moscow to justify its invasion of Chechnya.
>
> Boris Kagarlitsky, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute
> of
> Comparative Politics, writing in the weekly Novaya Gazeta, says that the
> bombings in Moscow and elsewhere were arranged by the GRU (the Russian
> military intelligence service). He says they used members of a group
> controlled by Shirvani Basayev, brother of the Chechen warlord Shamil
> Basayev, to plant the bombs. These killed 300 people in Buikask, Moscow
> and
> Volgodonsk in September.
>
> Mr Kagarlitsky, who, from internal evidence in the article, is drawing
> on a
> source with close knowledge of the GRU, says that invasion of Dagestan
> by
> Shamil Basayev himself in August was pre-arranged with a senior Kremlin
> leader at a meeting in France in July.
>
> He says that the motive for launching war was the need for the political
> leadership in the Kremlin to control the succession to President Boris
> Yeltsin. By last summer Mr Yeltsin, a year from his retirement as
> president,
> was deeply unpopular. His family and associates feared for their freedom
> and
> their fortunes if a president hostile to their interests was elected
> this
> June.
>
> In an unnoticed reference in Svenska Dagbladet, the Swedish daily, on 6
> June
> last year, the paper's Moscow correspondent Jan Blomgren wrote that one
> option being considered by the Kremlin and its associates was "terror
> bombings in Moscow which could be blamed on the Chechens". This was four
> months before the first bomb. Mr Blomgren told the Independent that his
> sources, whom he cannot name, were familiar with discussions within the
> political elite.
>
> A month later, writes Mr Kagarlitsky, a meeting took place in the south
> of
> France attended by Alexander Voloshin, head of the presidential
> administration, Shamil Basayev, the Chechen warlord, and Anton Surikov,
> a
> former official belonging to the army special services.
>
> Both sides had interests in common. Mr Basayev's political fortunes had
> ebbed
> in Chechnya and might be restored by a small war. The Kremlin was also
> in
> need of an outside enemy. According to Mr Kagarlitsky they agreed that
> Mr
> Basayev would launch a military foray into Dagestan and that Russia
> would
> respond by invading northern Chechnya up to the Terek river.
> Participants in
> the meeting have all denied it took place.
>
> Events now moved quickly. On 8 August Mr Basayev's forces invaded
> Dagestan to
> the east of Chechnya. On 9 August Vladimir Putin replaced Mr Stepashin
> as
> prime minister. In Dagestan the invasion did not go as planned. Mr
> Basayev's
> forces were beaten off but, according to the Russian magazine Profile,
> were
> virtually escorted back to the Chechen border by two Russian
> helicopters.
>
> Cooperation between Mr Basayev and the Russian army is not so surprising
> as
> it sounds. In 1992-93 he is widely believed to have received assistance
> from
> the GRU when he and his brother Shirvani fought in Abkhazia, a breakaway
> part
> of Georgia. Russia did not want to act overtly against Georgia but
> covertly
> supported a battalion of volunteers led by Mr Basayev.
>
> It is now alleged that the cooperation between the GRU and Shirvani
> Basayev
> went further. The invasion of Dagestan might be resented in Russia, but
> it
> was insufficient to mobilise Russian public opinion. This only occurred
> when
> four massive bombs exploded in Russia in September. The first, at a
> military
> housing complex at Buinaksk in Dagestan, blew up on 4 September killing
> 83
> people. The next two were targeted at ordinary Russian civilians. On 8
> and 13
> September explosives demolished two working-class apartment blocks in
> south
> Moscow leaving 228 men, women and children dead. Three days later a
> truck
> exploded in Volgodonsk.
>
> It was the wave of anger and hatred among Russians against Chechens,
> universally blamed for the attacks, that gave Mr Putin the backing he
> needed
> to invade Chechnya. An unknown figure when appointed, with just 2 per
> cent
> support in the polls, he was soon the leading candidate to win the
> presidency. In December Mr Yeltsin was able to retire more gracefully
> than
> seemed possible six months before and Mr Putin became acting president.
>
> Mr Kagarlitsky now alleges that the GRU itself was behind the bombing.
> He
> says it used Shirvani Basayev to carry it out "because he was more
> easily
> managed" than his brother. It also appears that he himself and his men
> did
> not know exactly why they had been recruited by the GRU for a special
> mission.
>
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