The simplest explanation for the 1999 apartment block explosions is that they were retribution by Wahhabis (drawn perhaps from throughout the North Caucasus) for the federal assault upon the Wahhabi enclave of Karamakhi, Chabanmakhi, and Kadar. The first apartment block blast occurred in Buinaksk, the town nearest to those villages, on 4 September 1999, just a couple of days after the federal assault began. The last apartment block blast occurred in Volgodansk on 16 September 1999, the same day that Basayev was finally driven from Dagestan. On the other hand, the principal weakness in this explanation is the incident at Ryazan, which it does not explain. Legitimate concerns are also raised by the closed, and consequently unsatisfactory, nature of the trial that recently convicted two men for the Moscow blasts.
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