Gunmen in combat fatigues fire at crowds at Moscow concert hall, a big blaze follows

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Gunmen in combat fatigues fire at crowds at Moscow concert hall, a big blaze follows
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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.

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.

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

I bet this is the first actual terrorist attack on Russia that was not perpetraded by Putin. I mean, even a clock and so on...

They botched one of the apartment building bombings worse than "The Sims card" thing. They had announced one of the bombings before doing the actual bombing.