Mother of the bombers

Here's a story from The Moscow Times about the mother of the accused Boston Marathon bombers:

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/mother-of-bomb-suspects-found-deeper-spirituality/479397.html

Kinda sounds like it was written in the US, no? It was (from the AP).

There's something being left out of all these stories: the Russian apartment bombings in 1999.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_apartment_bombings

The official story is that the bombings were conducted by Chechen terrorists. Putin came to power in the wake of the bombings and then started a bloody reprisal war with Chechnya.

However, as was reported in the book Blowing Up Russia, the Russian Security Service (FSB) itself was accused of carrying out the bombings. Interestingly (reminiscent of the Boston Marathon bombing and 9/11), at least one of them occurred during what later was called a "training exercise".

One of the accusers, Alexander Litvinenko, was later murdered by someone who gave him radioactive polonium-210. Since this is a material available only to a few governments, it suggests that he may have been assassinated by his own government for this and other revelations.

Whether or not the FSB was complicit in the 1999 bombings, they cannot be considered an unbiased source for intelligence concerning Chechnya. The animosity (hatred?) caused in Russia by those bombings, by the Moscow theater hostage crisis in 2002 (during which the Russian police shot or fatally gassed everyone in the theater, including the hostages), and the Beslan school hostage crisis in 2004 (which ended with the death of over 380 people, including 186 children) has no doubt led to a powerful anti-Chechen mentality in Russia.

Strange how no one is mentioning that. Blowback ... not just a US phenomenon.