Details of Russia's assassination of former Chechen Presiden

[ariweiner]

Due to closed investigation of assassination of Ex-President of Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (CRI) Yandarbiyev, Russian side has always been distorting the real state of affairs and falsifying the facts. According to earlier brief media reports, the assassins of Ex-President of CRI Yandarbiyev arrived in Doha, Qatar with false passports; they rented a minivan, acquired cellular phones and headed for the Russian embassy to get the explosives.

After that, during a Friday prayer, they drove up to the mosque, which Mr. Yandarbiyev was going to, found his vehicle and planted a bomb in it. Malika Yandarbiyeva, widow of Chechen Ex-President, says that a police officer helped figure out who the agents were when he spotted two men of 'Slavic appearance' and wrote the minivan’s license plate number down. This fact was reported by The Washington Post as well.

Due to the absence of objective information, government-run Russian media were broadly covering the results of the investigation and the entire trial of the Russian terrorists in their own biased way. This is why there was so much obscurity around this case, and this is why many things sounded unclear and discrepant.

We have obtained the materials with testimonies of Russian terrorists, which they gave during the first interrogation, and the list of the entire arsenal of material evidence discovered during the search of the villa. The evidence is fully shedding the light on the case of the terrorist act against Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev.

We are offering our readers more detailed and consistent information about the events in Qatar, which has been compiled from the materials of preliminary investigation, during which it was established that the assassination of Chechen Ex-President was preplanned long before.

After the terrorists made their first confessions it became clear that Russian secret services were collecting information about Mr. Yandarbiyev long in advance and thoroughly studying all main routes of his movement around the Qatari capital.

During his stay in Qatar Ex-President of CRI was under constant surveillance by some Yevgeny (Eugene), an FSB agent, who was forwarding all information necessary about Mr. Yandarbiyev to the embassy of the Russian Federation in Qatar, directly to Alexander Fetisov (who was released due to his diplomatic immunity).

As soon as enough information about Mr. Yandarbiyev was gathered, secret agents of Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) were called into Alexander Fetisov’s office: Vasily Anatolievich Pugachev (Yablochkov) and Anatoly Vladimirovich Belashkov. (In Arabic the names are spelled as: Bokchov Vasily Anatolievich and Belakshov Anatoly Vladimirovich).

During the meting they were told that they were being charged with a responsible assignment from the government: the removal of Ex-President of CRI Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev. The direct order was coming from Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergei Ivanov (after consultations with the attorneys this name was no longer mentioned in the materials of the investigation).

The terrorists were given the plan of Mr. Yandarbiyev’s assassination, which was developed by the FSB in detail back in Moscow even before the trip to Qatar, and the agents were given a white Land Cruiser for the assignment. Fetisov explained that this is the same kind of jeep that Yandarbiyev had in Qatar.

They headed for the assignment with no worries: a nuclear superpower is behind them. A plane with diplomatic mail flew out the same day, January 21. When the terrorists arrived in Doha on January 22 at 7:30 AM (two hours difference), two vehicles with diplomatic license plates entered Qatar from the city of Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates): Jeep Cherokee and Nissan Premiera, belonging to the Russian embassy. Diplomatic mail and the explosive device were in one of these vehicles.

It must also be mentioned that the customs recorded these vehicles crossing the border. The terrorists stayed at the villa rented for them exclusively, where Fetisov was giving them instructions. After studying the area and coordinating their actions, members of the terrorist group agreed that it would be best to perpetrate the assassination of Chechen Ex-President on Friday at the mosque, which Mr. Yandarbiyev was going to. The terrorists chose to plant a bomb under the bottom of Mr. Yandarbiyev’s vehicle.

February 13 by 10 AM three terrorists headed for the park near Sheraton Hotel in a Mitsubishi Pajero with diplomatic license plates. Here Belashkov got into the van rented by Yablochkov and headed for the mosque, where he was waiting for Yandarbiyev, who drove up in his Land Cruiser and entered the mosque.

After making sure Mr. Yandarbiyev was in the mosque, Belashkov returned to the Sheraton Hotel and came back with Fetisov, where they started waiting until all visitors went to the prayer.

When all people got inside, Belashkov got out of the van and fastened the bomb to the bottom of Yandarbiyev’s car. After the Friday prayer was over and Mr. Yandarbiyev got into his car with his 13-year-old son Daud, the terrorists detonated the explosive device.

After making sure that the terrorist act was successful, they returned to the park on the embankment, where Vasily Pugachev (Yablochkov) was already waiting for them. Here they switched cars and then Vasily Pugachev (Yablochkov) headed for the car rental company to return the rented vehicle, and Belashkov and Fetisov returned to the villa in a diplomatic car.

Testimony by witness Saleh Kawari played a vital role in the preliminary investigation. Mr. Kawari identified the murderers and pointed out that they were the ones he saw near Mr. Yandarbiyev’s jeep during the prayer at the mosque. During the court hearing on February 18 terrorists were shown pictures made by a camcorder seized during the search in the villa. The detainees testified that the laptop, the camera and the camcorder belonged to Fetisov and not them.

After the fingerprints and some other evidence were shown, the terrorists realized their total failure and figured it made no further sense to be in denial, and they confessed to the murder that they committed.

For example, during the very first interrogation Anatoly Belashkov told in detail who the plan of Mr. Yandarbiyev’s assassination was developed by, how the terrorist act was being prepared and by which channels the bomb was delivered.

He also described the bomb planted under the car’s bottom. Vasily Pugachev (Yablochkov) admitted that he is an officer of the FSB in the rank of lieutenant colonel, and that he was dispatched to Qatar on direct order from Russian Defense Minister Ivanov.

They told in detail about how they were called by Fetisov, how they were given the criminal order and how they flew out on that assignment. Alexander Fetisov was in charge of the operation all of the time. Besides, Pugachev (Yablochkov) asked for a piece of paper and drew the outline of the planned operation.

The objects confiscated during the search in the villa, where Russian terrorists and the ringleader of the criminal group Russian diplomat Alexander Fetisov were staying, is the irrefutable proof that the terrorists were not going away for a weekend:

1. Laptop (notebook)

2. Walkman

3. Checks paying for vodka on the name of Maxim Maximov

4. Walkman

5. Electric device in a cardboard box

6. 3 nails

7. Tape measure

8. Remote control

9. White electric device

10. Black briefcase

11. Black electric device with 2 wires

12. Briefcase with a Siemens computer and an adapter

13. Disk with 32 MB of memory

14.

15. D-disks

16. Large number of used HALA cards

17. Grey electric cord with a connector

18. Plane tickets to United Arab Emirates

19. Plane tickets to Saudi Arabia (2 items)

20. 4 fuses and yellow box with 3 electric devices

21. Boxes with 4 electric devices

22. 2 remote controls

23. Scotch tape

24. Metal balls

25. Coiled electric wire

26. Used barbecue grill

27. Screws

28. Blank immigration forms for leaving Saudi Arabia

29. Computer memory card

30. Canon camera

31. Camera

32. Dark-blue t-shirt

33. Black suitcase

34. Dark sunglasses (3 pairs)

35. Grey t-shirt

36. Electric current controller for 110 – 220 volts

37. Brown wallet with a credit card on Vasily’s name and driver’s license

38. Cellular phones: 3 MS60 Siemens, 1 Nokia and 3 Siemens phones with built-in cameras

39. Black JVC camcorder

40. XL-battery-operated soldering tool

41. 6 photos:

Photo of Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev when he is coming out of the mosque

Photo of the house where Mr. Yandarbiyev was living

Photo of the back of the house

Photo of Mr. Yandarbiyev, his head circled in red

Photo of Mr. Yandarbiyev in his vehicle

Photo of Mr. Yandarbiyev on his way to the mosque.

All of these photos were in the second camcorder as well, which was confiscated in the villa. The sentence is scheduled for June 8. According to the laws of the Shariah Court acting on the territory of Qatar, if proven guilty, the terrorists will face a death sentence.

Kavkaz Center is keeping track of the court trial on the case of assassination of Ex-President of CRI Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev.

From the materials of preliminary investigation,

Prepared by Ahmad of Ichkeria.
Exclusively for Kavkaz-Center

[usa320]

terrorists?

They were intelligence agents killing a god damn terrorist.

I dont see Russians beheading people on camera....

[Russian Texan]

Exclusively for Kavkaz-Center
So much for credibility :roll:


Just for fun:
1). Why would Russians want to kill him?

2). Why would Russia send two slavic looking "assasins" to an arab country and make them wear bright jump suits during the job, they were suppouse to kill the man, not to get on the "World's dumbest criminals"...
C'mon, don't you think Russia's intelligence deserves a little more credit?

3). What about a testimony by the witness who confirmed seeing same two man tens of miles away at the time of the crime?

The truth is much simpler: Yandarbiev partcipated in distributing finances to Chechen warlords and simply stole or cheated someone out of money...
But of course, exposing one of the own leadership as a thief is not as beneficial politicaly wise as proclaiming him a marty,r who was murdered by infidels...

The trial is a joke and a set up.
Weiner, you like to talk so much about human rights obuses, so please tell me: does torturing people to get a confession out qualify as one?

Darling, if it was Russia's government work, your homeboy would have simply had a heart attack, car accident or a death from some other "natural cause"...

Frankly, I wish Rus gov could take a credit for it but unfortunately they didn't do it, someone else did. Oh well, the guy is burning in hell anyways :lol:

[ariweiner]

"NTV Bars Chechen Widow's Interview"

At the request of the intelligence services and the written instruction of NTV's deputy general director, an interview with the widow of Chechen separatist leader Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev was cut from the Sunday night broadcast of "Namedni," Kommersant reported Monday.

"I do not know what level the instruction came from, but I can say that the request came from people on a level that you don't argue with," Leonid Parfyonov, the anchor of the weekly current affairs program, was quoted as saying.

During the five-minute segment that was scrapped, Malika Yandarbiyeva spoke of sitting in on the trial of two Russian security service officers charged in her husband's killing in a car bomb explosion in Qatar last February.

Parfyonov said that he understood from deputy general director Alexander Gerasimov that NTV had been asked not to air any report related to the Qatari trial before a verdict is issued, likely in late June or early July.

The reaction from journalists and media observers was one of indignant outrage over what they decried as censorship.

"It's a written act of censorship, strictly forbidden not only by the media law but by the Russian Constitution," said Yevgeny Kiselyov, a former television journalist and now editor of the newspaper Moskovskiye Novosti. "It's an unprecedented scandal. I can't remember a single other case like it."

Nor could Anna Kachkayeva, a television analyst for Radio Liberty, who said it has been more than 10 years since she last saw such a written ban and the reappearance signals a certain "tightening of the screws."

But she said there are other cases we never learn about, "because they stay behind the walls of editorial offices ... or the walls of the Kremlin."

"Namedni" goes live twice every Sunday, once in the afternoon to catch the prime time hours in the Far East, and again at 9 p.m. Moscow time, for the European part. The first broadcast is taken as a practice run for the more important second, and between the two, there is time to adjust and improve the show.

Or to limit it, Kachkayeva said. "Probably someone called Gerasimov on Sunday afternoon."

And Gerasimov called Parfyonov, who told Kommersant that he had insisted that his superior put the instruction in written form so that, as a journalist, he could be spared from the implication of censorship.

Kommersant published a copy of the terse memo ordering Parfyonov to can the piece, along with a transcript of the report by "Namedni" correspondent Yelena Samoilova, taped in Doha, the Qatari capital, in early May.

The bulk of Yandarbiyeva's comments concern her grief, her children and the assistance and hospitality offered to her family by Qatar's rulers. She also tearfully recited a few verses written by her late husband, who was a poet as well as president of a de facto independent Chechnya at the end of the first war there, in 1996. He fled to Qatar at the beginning of the second, in 1999.

By law, material that encourages violence or spreads extremist sentiment may be censored.

Neither of these conditions were met, Kachkayeva said, and it was hard to see how preventing Yandarbiyeva's remarks from going on air was not worth the scandal it has sparked.

It wasn't the first time NTV has canceled a "Namedni" segment at the last minute. In November, the station's general director, Nikolai Senkevich, pulled a piece that Parfyonov planned to run about Yelena Tregubova, a former Kremlin reporter who published a sensational memoir called "Tales of a Kremlin Digger." Senkevich at the time said the "vulgar" material would not be of interest to viewers.

And Parfyonov isn't the only journalist to be put under pressure for material that strikes a nerve among station managers or Kremlin spin doctors.

Vladimir Pozner, the anchor of "Vremena," the weekly news show on Channel One, has publicly bristled at attempts by the Kremlin to modify the tone or content of his program.

Kiselyov, for his part, said, "I'm happy to be out of television. There are too few ways to resist political pressure. You inevitably have to make compromises, and you inevitably lose face."

"This is interference in the editorial policy of a private -- I emphasize private -- company," Kachkayeva said. "With the state channels, it's understood that there's a certain influence."

At Channel One and Rossia, "there's no need to censor anyone," Kiselyov said. "They manage their journalistic views. They're already censored."

Kachkayeva said the pressure on Parfyonov was "completely intolerable" if it came from high-ranking government officials.

But there was an alternate possibility, she said -- that Gerasimov made the decision himself, simply on the basis of how he anticipated the intelligence services would react, as a way of playing it safe.

"If that's the case, then it becomes more morally complicated," she said, because Gerasimov, who oversees political and informational programming for the channel, technically has the right to make editorial decisions that Parfyonov must obey.

In the face of such an order, a journalist's only leverage is to threaten to walk out, issuing an ultimatum that either the show run in its entirety or not at all, she said.

Parfyonov did not pick this path, nor did he tell viewers on air that he had been forced to drop a segment of his program.

Nonetheless, the public furor provoked by the NTV memo is likely to mean that Parfyonov will face an unhappy general director when Senkevich returns from a business trip to Los Angeles.

Kachkayeva said Parfyonov may find himself bound by stricter constraints in the future but NTV cannot afford to fire him. "He's one of the few windows through which they can claim to maintain an alternative point of view," she said.

[anonymous individual]

Please do not post any thing that has ties with Kavkaz-Center.

[Russian Texan]

"Kachkayeva said Parfyonov may find himself bound by stricter constraints in the future but NTV cannot afford to fire him. "He's one of the few windows through which they can claim to maintain an alternative point of view," she said.

They just did fire him. So much for the "independent expert analyst" opinoin rofl rofl rofl

[ariweiner]

Please do not post any thing that has ties with Kavkaz-Center. Why? Because you don't like being confronted with facts?

[American Patriot]

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[RomanS]

Please do not post any thing that has ties with Kavkaz-Center. Why? Because you don't like being confronted with facts?

Take your anti-Russian, pro-muslim terrorist facts, and stick them up your poopshoot.

There are ways to do something about your dumb retarded strugle. Go and join your Chechen boyfriends, and let them molest your pink ass with their jihad. You can type all kinds of ****, I mean copy and paste from kavkazgaycenter. But what can you do about it? NOTHING. NOTHING. NOTHING.

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We will teach them how to eat with forks, enjoy music, pork, and video entertainment. And most of all, we will teach them how to appreciate females with love and respect.

die now ari*****...

[SeanAshi]

Haven't Chechens been known to kill their own and blame it on Russia?

[Kilgor]

Haven't Chechens been known to kill their own and blame it on Russia?

like most terrorists...

[anonymous individual]

Please do not post any thing that has ties with Kavkaz-Center. Why? Because you don't like being confronted with facts?

I do not mind facts but not false facts.

[ariweiner]

I do not mind facts but not false facts.
Give me an example of a "false fact" from the article that I posted.