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I am a former demolition expert on a Special Forces A-Team. I have read the conspiracy theory posts that the KGB blew up the apartment buildings, was responsible for the massacres at the Moscow theater Beslan.
I want to say all of this is nonsense, and on the level of a man claiming he is a poached egg.
Firstly, the report of the KGB blowing up the apartment buildings included one where the KGB members were caught putting sugar looking RDX explosive in an apartment building. RDX does not look anything like sugar, and so I count that report as fantasy.
Secondly, the Moscow theater rescue was handled almost as well as could be expected. Rescuing the hostages in the theater where two huge artillery shells had been electronically wired to explode was an almost impossible to win situation.
Thirdly, the Beslan school massacre was similar. The terrorists had wired artillery shells to explode electronically. One was attached to a basketball goal, and later exploded when it accidentally fell setting off the final chain of events.

In all military operations the unexpected happens, and these operations were no different on either side. While the Russian military did not execute their plans perfectly in Moscow or Beslan, they did do a decent job.
We have several individuals on Free Republic who are conspiracy theorists, and live and breathe the evil Russia, KGB, and Putin. I include TapTheSource as a complete basket case looking for a conspiracy in every newspaper, rag, novel, and comic book to back his wild ideas. Putin, Russia, and the FSB have their faults, weaknesses, and a few bad eggs, but they are not the evil beings these nuts make them out to be in their posts.