The teaser below was for a story on the just-screened edition of a local TV current affairs program. If past practice is anything to go by, they should have a full transcript within a day or two. It is a credible show. What do you know about Alexander Litvinenko?
regards,
Grant.
"Alexander Litvinenko, a former lieutenant colonel in Russia's Federal Security Bureau (FSB) says the terrorist event throws up many unanswered questions -
* How could 50 armed and camouflage dressed "terrorists" have crossed Moscow undetected? * Why were all the terrorists - who together with the hostages were put to sleep by gas - executed instead of being kept alive to be questioned? * Why were the bodies of two informants who took part in the siege - and were well known to the FSB - never found? Were they released?
Litvinenko believes these two men - Abdul the Bloody and Abu Bakar - were working for the FSB and persuaded other Chechens to join them without revealing their connection to the FSB. Litvinenko thinks the Russian Secret Service organised the whole theatre siege and that all the others involved in staging it were killed to conceal the FSB's involvement.
Chechen rebel leader Akhmed Zakayev says the Nord-Ost siege did not benefit the Chechens but only the Russians who gained a reason for continuing the Chechen war."
http://www.sbs.com.au/dateline/