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Did Putin plant the holiday jet bomb that killed 224 Russians? Ex-KGB agent claims this dossier proves the Kremlin orchestrated the atrocity to justify waging war on Syria

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However extraordinary, the allegations about the Sinai crash are not as far-fetched as they may seem. After all, Putin has allegedly used such a murderous method against his own people to generate support for war before. In 1999, during Putin’s first term as president after coming to power following a career as a KBG spy, he was accused of being behind the infamous bombings of four apartment blocks in Moscow as well as the cities of Buynaksk and Volgodonsk.
Within 24 hours of a series of explosions ripping through the apartment blocks, killing 307 civilians, including women and children, and injuring more than 1,700 more, Putin had blamed Islamic fighters in Chechnya — and launched a devastating air assault on the region.
According to Putin and his loyalists, the bombing was ordered by Islamist warlords, who were trying to wreak havoc among the Russian population. Yet, even as Putin was going to war against his enemies in Chechnya, three Kremlin spies were arrested by local police who accused them of planting the devices.
At the same time, another bomb plot was foiled and Russian police traced suspicious calls, in which ‘terrorists’ discussed the atrocity, to a number in Moscow. It turned out to belong to the FSB (state security).
Other suspects arrested for the bombing campaign were later released after showing their FSB official identification cards.
Even more damning, it transpired that a Russian official had expressed his condolences about the apartment building bombings in an official speech to a council meeting — three days before any of the explosions.
A special parliamentary commission was set up to investigate the plot in 2000. While Putin’s government refused to co-operate with the inquiry, two members of the commission were killed in apparent assassinations, and its senior lawyer was jailed.

The head of Russia's secretive GRU military intelligence service, Gen Igor Sergun, has died suddenly aged 58.
Expressing condolences, President Vladimir Putin called him "an experienced and competent commander, a man of great courage, a true patriot".
The circumstances of his death are not clear. He became GRU chief in 2011.
In 2014 he was placed on EU and US sanctions lists targeting top Russian officials after Russia's annexation of Crimea, in southern Ukraine.
The EU list said Gen Sergun was "responsible for the activity of GRU officers in eastern Ukraine".

52-årige Alexander Sjusjukin, stabschef för de ryska luftlandsättningsstyrkorna, avlidit i en hjärtattack. Enligt en tjänsteman vid ukrainska inrikesdepartementet var Sjusjukin ett ledande befäl vid annekteringen av Krim våren 2014.
I ett fåtal, främst ukrainska, medier noteras att två centrala kunskapskällor vad gäller Rysslands ljusskygga roll i Ukraina-konflikten nu tystnat och enskilda bedömare tror att männen röjts ur vägen.
I november avled 57-årige Michail Lesin, i många år känd som Rysslands propaganda-tsar, på ett billigt hotellrum i USA under vad The Moscow Times kallat mystiska omständigheter.