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Chechen rebels plan another attack in Moscow
Ros Business Consulting ^ | January 17, 2002

Posted on 01/17/2003 8:59:42 PM PST by HAL9000

The Russian newspaper Izvestia reports that it has obtained a copy of an extract from the Russian Interior Ministry's decree "on the possibility of a terrorist act in Moscow". According to the document, the Moscow police have been bracing for another attack by Chechen rebels, which "will be on a larger scale" than the Moscow theater siege in October 2002.

The head of the Moscow Department of the Federal Security Service, Viktor Zakharov, said at the Moscow government's meeting earlier this week: "We have recently received information, through Interpol, about the preparation of another large-scale terrorist attack in Moscow by Basayev." The document sheds light on the information the security official was speaking about. According to the newspaper, two cars packed with 30 kg of plastid were found near the Ulitsa 1905 metro station in central Moscow on Thursday. "According to our information, the field commander Basayev ... is preparing another terrorist act in Moscow. Terrorists plan an unprecedented terrorist act. We assume that it will be staged very soon, and it will have a larger scale than the theater siege operation," the decree reads. According to it, the notorious warlord Shamil Basayev called on all Chechens working in Moscow to leave the city, sell their flats and cars and contribute the proceeds for the creation of a Chechen rebel financial base abroad (Czech Republic, German or Belgium). Reportedly, Chechen rebels have prepared accommodations for Chechen refugees in Western Europe, particularly in Britain and Belgium. "If measures taken by the Moscow authorities prevent the terrorist act, or it be considered unsuccessful, further terrorist acts will be carried out against other targets somewhere in Europe," it is said in the document.

Information regarding the preparation of the attack and counter-measures taken by the Russian authorities was posted on a personal site of Stanislav Vasilyev. Izvestia's correspondent contacted him on Thursday.

"I posted this document on the Internet on January 15," Mr. Vasilyev told the newspaper. "It seemed interesting to me, and I obtained it from very reliable police sources which I would not like to name. That is why, I decided to post it on the Internet for public knowledge," he said.

Igor Zinovyev, the head of the anti-crime police unit of Moscow's Central District Interior Department, whose signature appears on the decree, confirmed the authenticity of the document. But he said he was unaware how it got on the Internet.

Nikolai Kulikov, the head of the Moscow administration's law enforcement department, also confirmed the existence of this document. He told Izvestia that Moscow's Interior Departments had indeed received extracts from the decree of the Main Interior Department of Moscow # 1058/TE/142/03 of January 11, 2003 "on the possibility of a terrorist act in Moscow", which was signed by Colonel Zinovyev, the head of the anti-crime police unit of Moscow's Central District.



TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: basayev; chechnya; russia

1 posted on 01/17/2003 8:59:42 PM PST by HAL9000
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2 posted on 01/17/2003 9:00:41 PM PST by Support Free Republic (Your support keeps Free Republic going strong!)
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To: Stavka; MarMema; Destro; Fusion; Hoplite
Ping
3 posted on 01/17/2003 9:06:35 PM PST by Angelus Errare
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To: Angelus Errare
I glad I'm flying into Helsinki on Tuesday instead of flying directly into St. Petersburg. I hope they catch these terrorist before I arrive.
4 posted on 01/17/2003 11:40:00 PM PST by Andy from Beaverton
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To: Angelus Errare; Stavka2
thanks, pinging stavka2.....can't wait to see what Fusion has to say about this.
5 posted on 01/18/2003 7:47:42 AM PST by MarMema
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To: FormerLib
how about some prayers for the Muscovites? We already know these scum can do damage in Moscow.
6 posted on 01/18/2003 7:49:24 AM PST by MarMema
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To: HAL9000; BrooklynGOP; wildandcrazyrussian; crazykatz; don-o
I have no doubt that serious plans are in action. I was very alarmed in skimming kavkaz at the end of December by some commentary about the end of the chechen war, from obvious rebel-cohorts. Please keep the Muscovites in your prayers.
7 posted on 01/18/2003 9:29:52 AM PST by MarMema
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To: RnMomof7; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; George W. Bush; OrthodoxPresbyterian
please pray for the Muscovites.
8 posted on 01/18/2003 9:31:17 AM PST by MarMema
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To: MarMema
Will do
9 posted on 01/18/2003 9:38:11 AM PST by RnMomof7
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To: MarMema
Did I ping you for the thread pulled off an al-Qaeda website in which one of bin Laden's lieutenants authorized the use of nuclear and biological weapons against US and Russian targets? If you put that together with this report and the stories about Abu Khabab (the organization's top WMD scientist) establishing a biological weapons workshop in the Pankisi Gorge and you get a very scary picture developing.

St. Michael the Archangel, watch over and defend the people of Moscow.
10 posted on 01/18/2003 10:25:05 AM PST by Angelus Errare
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To: Angelus Errare
No ping that I recall, if you have time, please ping me.

There are notices out on many lists about a protest to be held in Moscow on Feb 1st against the chechen war.
Buncha human rights types, apparently.

11 posted on 01/18/2003 10:43:00 AM PST by MarMema
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To: MarMema
Hey, glad to see that you are feeling better!

The Moscow Opera house event...didn't Putin make certain that the rebels were sewed up in pig skins (anathema to an islamic), when they were buried? It seems to me that the way to deal with such satanic fanatics is to make certain that they know that there is no chance that they will enter the perversion that they call heaven (placing pig products in/on their bodies does this according to their belief system), that will stop the nonsense. If they use walking "not-so-smart" bombs, do the same thing to the "dearly departed's" family.

Irony:
That we would sincerly pray on behalf of a nation, and it's leader, who was a former member of the KGB, and dedicated to destruction of the west. It is testimony to how God changed hearts and situations...that same former KGB member institutes a flat tax, and turns out to be the Ronald Reagan of Russia. How God has changed the world in so short a time...sola Deo Gloria.

12 posted on 01/18/2003 12:19:28 PM PST by Calvinist_Dark_Lord (Once more dear friends into the breach, once more!)
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To: Angelus Errare; MarMema
one of bin Laden's lieutenants authorized the use of nuclear and biological weapons against US and Russian targets?

http://www.satribune.com/archives/dec30_jan05_03/P1_Chashma.htm

Interesting......
13 posted on 01/19/2003 10:09:13 PM PST by swarthyguy
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To: HAL9000
bump ...
14 posted on 01/19/2003 10:51:44 PM PST by Centurion2000 (Memetic Engineer in training.)
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