On the merits of the questions asked

Question

You are being presented for inspection with a clock mechanism and two electric detonators of the ED-3-ZN and ED-8Zh brands, seized during the inspection of the premises at the address: Moscow, Borisovskie Prudy St., house 16, bldg. 2. Are these items familiar to you? If yes, where and when did you see them?

Answer

I have carefully examined the items presented to me and want to state that these items are familiar to me, but I saw them for the first time during the war in the territory of Chechnya in Abu Jafar's detachment. Before the explosions in 1999 in the cities of Moscow and Volgodonsk, I did not see them. I theoretically know how such a clock mechanism is made, but I have never made one myself. I heard about this from someone in the detachment; I know that in the electronic clocks used in such a clock mechanism, the alarm contact needs to be resoldered to connect some parts in series into an electrical circuit, but I cannot do this myself and have not seen how it is done. I saw electric detonators in Abu Jafar's detachment quite often; mining was carried out with their help. I repeat that I did not see such a clock mechanism and electric detonators with anyone in the summer of 1999, I mean Achimez Gochiyayev, the Batchayev brothers, and others who manufactured explosives in the village of Mirny.

Question

You are being presented for inspection with three color photographs of the leaders of illegal armed groups (NVF) on the territory of the Chechen Republic (appendix to expert opinion No. 3/400 dated November 5, 2001, designated as photos 5, 6, and 7). Are these faces familiar to you? If yes, who specifically is familiar to you and when did you see him?

Answer

I have carefully examined the three photographs presented to me and can state that in photograph number 5 I recognize: the second from the left is Khattab, the far right is a Chechen named Elsi. I do not know the other two men. In photograph No. 6, I also identify the man sitting on the left as an Arab named Khattab, the far right is the Chechen Elsi. I do not identify the man sitting between them. I do not identify the man in photo No. 7. During my entire stay in Chechnya, I saw Khattab two or three times. The last time I saw him was in the summer of 2000, when he came to our detachment, which was then located in the forest near Serzhen-Yurt. Before that, I saw him in the winter at the beginning of 2000, when I called my wife's sister from a satellite phone belonging to Khattab. I saw the Chechen named Elsi for the first time in 1997 in a camp near Serzhen-Yurt. Elsi, as far as I know, fought in the first