• northendtrooper@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    An excerpt from the article:

    In October 2002, Chechen militants took about 800 people hostage at a Moscow theater. Two days later, Russian special forces stormed the building and 129 hostages and 41 Chechen fighters died, most of them from effects of narcotic gas Russian forces use to subdue the attackers.

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      8 months ago

      Those are two separate events…

      The false flag apartment bombings were carried out by actual Russian security services - not Chechen assets, or militants.

      On an related unrelated note, some of Russian agents who took part were comically stupid. If you aren’t aware of the Sims vs SIM card mix-up, do yourself a favor and look it up.

      Edit: as pointed out below, the Sims vs SIM card was not part of the 1999 false flag operation, but a more recent one (2022). My bad.

      • FlowVoid@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        The Sims comedy hour was a separate event from the other two, it was a 2022 attempt to frame Ukraine for terrorism.