[lbo-talk] Conspiracy theory on Moscow theatre siege (Chris?)

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

> 
> 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.

I cannot comment on the merits of this particular claim, because I do
not have sufficient information.  However, I know that the genre of
conspiracy theories involving a mole in the ranks of the enemy's top
echelons is very popular in Eastern Europe, and can be found not just in
urban legends but official propaganda and even literature.  I would thus
take such stories with a hefty grain of salt.

Wojtek