[BBell]

I never did hear or read anything concise as to what happened to the apartments. It's one big conspiracy theory.

I do remember Beslan, the theater take over, the subway bombings, and the two black widows who brought down two passenger jets by smuggling explosives in their ho-ho.

[MinorityRepublican]

This has led to the support of theories by Alexander Litvinenko (later murdered by an unusual radioactive isotope) and Anna Politkovskaya that the apartment bombings were carried out by the Russian secret service FSB (formerly KGB). Together with the Invasion of Dagestan launched from Chechnya in August 1999 by Islamist militia led by Shamil Basayev and Ibn al-Khattab, the bombings caused the Russian Federation to launch the Second Chechen War.