After 2002 Moscow theather terror attack some people (including Litvinienko) suggested FSB was behind the attack to justify harsher policy on Chechenia, and to

After 2002 Moscow theather terror attack some people (including Litvinienko) suggested FSB was behind the attack to justify harsher policy on Chechenia, and to increase popular support for Putin. > An independent investigation of the event was undertaken by Russian politicians Sergei Yushenkov, Sergei Kovalev, journalist Anna Politkovskaya, Hoover Institute scholar John B. Dunlop, and former FSB officers Aleksander Litvinenko and Mikhail Trepashkin. According to their version, FSB knew about the terrorist group's arrival in Moscow and directed them to the theater through their agent provocateur Khanpasha Terkibayev ("Abu Bakar"), whose name was in the list of hostage takers and who left the theater alive.[58][88][89][90] In April 2003 Litvinenko gave information about Terkibayev ("the Terkibayev file") to Sergei Yushenkov when he visited London. Yushenkov passed this file to Politkovskaya and she was able to interview Terkibayev in person.[91] A few days later, Yushenkov was assassinated by gunfire in Moscow. Terkibayev was later killed in an apparent car crash in Chechnya. > In June 2003, Litvinenko stated in an interview with the Australian television programme Dateline, that two of the Chechen militants involved in the siege—whom he named "Abdul the Bloody" and "Abu Bakar"—were working for the FSB, and that the agency manipulated the terrorists into staging the attack.[92] Litvinenko said: "[w]hen they tried to find [Abdul the Bloody and Abu Bakar] among the rotting corpses of dead terrorists, they weren't there. The FSB got its agents out. So the FSB agents among Chechens organized the whole thing on FSB orders, and those agents were released" Litvinienko was killed in London, obviously. Politkovskaya was murdered in her home in Moscow in 7th October 2006. Ironicaly - 7th October is Putin's birthday. If Litvinienko and Politkovskaya were right not only Putin has ordered assasinations of several former spies and journalists criticizing him, but he's also responsible for hundreds of victims of terrorism in Russia, mostly regular civilian Russians. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_theater_hostage_crisis#Claims_of_FSB_involvement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_theater_hostage_crisis#...