Roots and Trajectories of Violent Extremism and Terrorism A Cooperative Program of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Sciences (1995-2020) (2022) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix C: Lessons Learned from a Terrorist Attack in a Moscow Theater (Yevgeny Kolesnikov)
Appendix C: Lessons Learned from a Terrorist Attack in a Moscow Theater (Yevgeny Kolesnikov)
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On October 23, 2002, a band of terrorists led by Chechen field commander Movsar Barayev seized the Palace of Culture of the Moscow Ball-Bearing Factory, where more than 920 people were attending a performance of the musical Nord-Ost. The Russian government immediately set up an operations center involving many government agencies near the site to oversee the government's response and to keep the public informed as the incident unfolded.
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It included 76 kilograms of explosives, 17 automatic rifles, 20 hand guns, 25 homemade explosive devices, many suicide belts, 2 homemade bombs in the form of metallic tanks filled with artillery shells, 106 grenades, and more than 5,000 rounds of ammunition. Evidence gathered during investigation of the incident included docu mentation of repeated attempts to force the Russian leadership to hold talks with the leadership of the rebels in Chechnya.
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The methods used in implementing the preparatory phase and in the act of hostage taking were characteristic of those used by extremists organizations associated with al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and other criminal groups espousing terrorism and violence as a means to achieving their goals. Also at the national level, expert assessments have established that the types of homemade explosives devices used both in the Nord-Ost incident and a car bombing at a McDonald's restaurant in Moscow a few months earlier were identical.
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