September Terror

Collection of materials on the apartment bombings in Moscow and Volgodonsk
Supplement to issue 7

THE LUBYANKA VECTOR
Report of the Moscow research group

Mark Ulensch

Contents:

• CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION
  • Krasnodarskaya Street. A terrorist's mistake? 2
  • Borisovskie Prudy. Thank you, doctor! 4
  • Guryanova Street. Bird of the seas and ship of the desert (chapter currently missing)
  • Kashirskoye Highway. One's own are those who pay 6
• THE ACCUSED ACCUSE
  • Letters of repentance 7
  • The Perovo lead? 9
• PREDICTIONS
  • The Chechen lead, leading to Lubyanka 11
  • Volunteer Mylnikov 12
  • The Perovo lead again? 13
• VECTOR 14
• MISCELLANEOUS
  • The Uzbek lead 16
  • Something about Ryazan 17
  • They are no longer being sought 19

What has happened over the last two years

• 14.11.2001. A closed court in Stavropol sentenced five Karachays to terms ranging from 9 to 15 years on charges of preparing terrorist acts. The original charge of complicity in organizing the 1999 apartment bombings was dropped for all defendants.
• 24.4.2002. This date marks a letter from Gochiyayev (published 24.7.2002).
• 17.7.2002. One of the accused, Dekkushev, was detained.
• 28.7.2002. This date marks a letter from Krymshamkhalov and Batchaev (published in December 2002, received by the media before 7.12.2002).
• 20.8.2002. This date marks a video interview with Gochiyayev (its text was handed over by Felshtinsky and Litvinenko to journalists and the Kovalev Commission in February 2003).
• 7.12.2002. The accused Krymshamkhalov was detained. The accused Timur Batchaev died during an arrest attempt.
• 14.5.2003. Lyubichev, an officer of the Kislovodsk State Traffic Inspectorate, was sentenced to four years in prison for aiding the accused Krymshamkhalov.
• 23.6.2003. Detention of "werewolves in epaulettes" [corrupt police]. One of them, Evgeny Taratorin, had previously told journalists about his active participation in the investigation of the apartment bombings. A few days later, the head of the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department, Viktor Trutnev, was removed from his post. In 1999, Trutnev headed the criminal investigation department of the South-Eastern District of Moscow, which includes Guryanova, Krasnodarskaya, and Borisovskie Prudy streets.
• 31.10.2003. A closed trial of Dekkushev and Krymshamkhalov began in the Moscow City Court.

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