Holy Wars in Dagestan and Bombs in Moscow 107

In the summer of 1999, in a villa in the south of France, with the participation of Basayev and the head of the presidential administration, Aleksandr Voloshin. Furthermore, it is alleged that the explosive materials used were not supplied from secret bases in Chechnya but from GRU stockpiles near Moscow.

Basayev's declarations of war and terrorism in Russia ignited the apocalyptic war in Chechnya in the fall of 1999. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin declared on 27 September, "We are now the victims of the aggression of international terrorism." A day later he proclaimed, "It is clear we cannot simply drive them out of one spot and draw a line. . . . The whole world knows that terrorists have to be destroyed at their bases." Two days later, Russia responded with one hundred thousand troops and brutal military force to eliminate "foreign terrorist bases" from the North Caucasus.