INSIDE INFORMATION ON 1999 BOMBINGS COMES TO LIGHT.

INSIDE INFORMATION ON 1999 BOMBINGS COMES TO LIGHT.

In an unexpected development, an official Russian government newspaper, Rossiiskaya Gazeta, in its March 30 issue, published a lengthy interview with Aleksandr Litvinenko, a former lieutenant colonel in the FSB, who recently received political asylum in Great Britain. Some excerpts:

Interviewer: “You took part in preparing the film ‘Assassination [Attempt] against Russia,’ in which the participation of the FSB in the explosions of the [apartment] houses in Moscow and Volgodonsk and the preparing of an explosion in Ryazan’ are discussed. Do you seriously believe that?”

Litvinenko: “I have direct proof in relation to the attempt to blow up an [apartment] house in Ryazan. I am in possession of facts that not sugar, as the FSB maintains, but [the explosive] hexogen was placed under that house, and that it was employees of Patrushev [the director of the FSB] who placed it there.”

Interviewer: “Are you prepared to present this proof?”

Litvinenko: “I am prepared. Not to the [Russian] procuracy–that is, a criminal organization. And not to the FSB–that is a terrorist organization. When the public commission which is presently being formed by [Duma deputy] Sergei Yushenkov has been created, then under the condition that honest people make up that commission I will give them all the materials which I have in my hands concerning the crimes committed by the leadership of the FSB…. Yesterday through the Internet I appealed to all officers of the FSB who participated in the 1999 explosions to come forward and admit it.”