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[-] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 65 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Those are two separate events...

The false flag apartment bombings were carried out by actual Russian security services - not Chechen assets, or militants.

On an ~~related~~ unrelated note, ~~some of Russian agents who took part were comically stupid.~~ If you aren't aware of the Sims vs SIM card mix-up, do yourself a favor and look it up.

Edit: as pointed out below, the Sims vs SIM card was not part of the 1999 false flag operation, but a more recent one (2022). My bad.

[-] FlowVoid@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago

The Sims comedy hour was a separate event from the other two, it was a 2022 attempt to frame Ukraine for terrorism.

[-] anarchy79@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

I bet this is the first actual terrorist attack on Russia that was not perpetraded by Putin. I mean, even a clock and so on...

[-] ours@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

They botched one of the apartment building bombings worse than "The Sims card" thing. They had announced one of the bombings before doing the actual bombing.

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