Testimony Transcript

...aluminum powder to Yoska, the Batchayev brothers, Timur and Zaur, arrived. They gave me instructions to purchase 5-7 tons of granulated sugar at the Erken-Shakhar sugar factory. They gave me money for this. I went to Erken-Shakhar and bought the sugar. It was delivered to Kislovodsk and unloaded at a base whose director was Yoska's uncle. I do not remember how or by what transport the sugar was delivered to the base. Then, the explosives, which had been mixed by the Batchayev brothers and one Ingush in the village of Mirny, were taken to the same base; I testified about this above. The explosive was a mixture of ammonium nitrate and aluminum powder. It was transported from the village of Mirny to the base in Kislovodsk in a KAMAZ truck, which had a sea container instead of a truck bed. I do not know the name of the driver of this KAMAZ; Yoska made the arrangements with him. This driver did not know what cargo he was transporting. The vehicle was parked at this base because it was safer there. I do not know how the explosives and sugar were taken from the base because then, as I indicated above, I went back to Chechnya to Abu-Umar. I wanted to fight. It was then that I learned from him that part of the explosives had gone to Moscow and was used by Gochiyaev in the apartment bombings. Abu-Umar gave me instructions to return to the Stavropol Krai, pick up the remaining part of the explosives, and take it to Volgodonsk to blow up a house. Realizing that I had no other choice, since it turns out I am one of those who committed the apartment bombings in Moscow, I was forced to carry out this instruction from Abu-Umar as well.

Question: Do you repent for what you have done?

Answer:

I fully plead guilty to the preparation and commission, together with those mentioned above, of the bombings of residential buildings in the city of Moscow in 1999 and I repent for what I have done. I am ready to provide any assistance to the investigation. I am ready to give detailed testimony on all additional questions regarding the circumstances of the bombings of houses in the cities of Moscow and Volgodonsk at subsequent interrogations.

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