Testimony Regarding Acts of Terrorism

I also want to note that they were committed by me because we, that is, all persons involved in the explosions in September 1999, were told: "Blow something up in Russia and the war against our brothers in Dagestan will stop."

Events Leading to the Actions

As I have already testified earlier, in the summer of 1999, before the start of the war in Chechnya, a person unknown to me from the Uchkeken jamaat came to me and said that I must go to Chechnya to perform some work. I arrived at Khattab's camp near the settlement of Serzhen-Yurt. There, one of the Arabs named Abu Umar told me that I must go to Volgograd and there purchase aluminum powder from a Chechen whose phone number I was given. For expenses, I was given approximately 3 – 3.5 thousand US dollars.

Acquiring Resources

Carrying out this instruction, I returned to the Caucasian Mineral Waters and there, with the money received from Abu Umar, I bought a "Moskvich-Svyatogor" passenger car for 2,800 US dollars, green in color, approximately 1998 model year, state registration number "181" (I don't remember the letters) of the Stavropol Krai (Essentuki). The car was registered by general power of attorney to my wife – Zemfira Magomedovna Dekkusheva. Also in Kislovodsk, in a mobile phone shop located at the "circle," at my request, my acquaintance Yusuf Krymshamkhalov bought a cell phone. I also acquired the phone on the instructions of Abu Umar.

Meeting and Purchase in Volgograd

In this car, I went to Volgograd and there, having called the number given to me, I met at the exchange at the entrance to the city with a Chechen (about 25 years old, I don't remember his name, but he was originally from Atagi, where he was later killed during combat operations). He helped me buy aluminum powder. It was packed in gray metal barrels with inscriptions, but I do not remember the content of those (inscriptions) at the moment, nor do I remember the number of barrels. We loaded them into a passing vehicle headed for Kislovodsk –