Account Details

• We arrived in Chechnya with Batchayev by taxi from the city of Pyatigorsk.
• We settled in Khattab's camp in the settlement of Serzhen-Yurt.
• Moaz was already in this camp, and later others appeared who took part in the manufacture and transportation of explosives.

Military Actions

• Military actions began.
• I had to go out to positions in the village of Chervlenoye, where we dug trenches, but I did not take part in the battles.
• I was armed with a 5.45 mm Kalashnikov assault rifle with a wooden stock.
• I was dressed in camouflage uniform and was wearing a "razgruzka" (load-bearing vest) with eight magazines for the assault rifle and two hand grenades.

Training and Movement

• When the army approached closer, we retreated and eventually ended up in Shatoy.
• At Gochiyayev's suggestion, I joined his group, which consisted of:
  • His brother-in-law Taukan Frantsuzov
  • Abubakar (real name Marat)
  • Abubakar the younger
  • Haris (who looked like a Kazakh)
  • Abdu Sabur
• We all underwent training in explosives with Abu Umar and an Uzbek named Huzeyfa.
• This training involved practicing the assembly of an explosive device with a clock mechanism based on "CASIO" electronic watches.
• I note that a sheet with an image of this circuit was seized from me during my detention.
• After the training, Gochiyayev with the Abubakars and Frantsuzov left Chechnya.
• I, along with Haris and Abdu Sabur, went in the second group.
• We exited along the main Caucasus Range with a guide—an Ingush named Vakha (call sign "Sheikh") and another Chechen named Kuraish.
• On Mount Surat, we accidentally met a resident of Karachayevsk (or a Lezgin, or a Kumyk) named Igor (later I saw him in Pankisi, where he arrived together with Gochiyayev).
• Next, we came out in the area of the village of Komsomolskoye.
• Without entering it, we turned left and approached the direction of Tangi-Chu—the village of Orekhovoye (Yandi-khutor).
• Vakha and Abdu Sabur died while trying to find food there.
• We came out onto the territory of Ingushetia in the area of the village of Nesterovskaya.
• From there, Haris and...

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