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Patrushev admits to mistakes during ‘Nord-Ost’ hostage rescue
FSB director Nikolai Patrushev for the first time has acknowledged that errors were made at terrorist-held Dubrovka in Moscow. He made this confession for the first time during his appearance in a documentary film shown on ‘Channel One’.
“The terrorist seizure of the Dubrovka theatrical center actually forced us to start from scratch,” Patrushev said following a voice-over that stated that the armed seizure of the audience and performers of the musical ‘Nord-Ost’ could be considered the first time in modern history that a terrorist attack had occurred ‘live’. According to the director of Russia’s largest security agency, “the special forces carefully prepared for the operation and listened to the opinions of the professionals.” According to him, the operation itself, despite its complexity, did not cause any major problems.
‘ITAR-TASS’ quotes Patrushev as saying: “The problems appeared during the aftermath of the attack.” While pictures in the background showed the evacuation of hostages from the auditorium of the theatrical center, Patrushev acknowledged that during the planning stage of the operation the leadership was confident that they could quickly assist the hostages.
“They got a hold of many more doses of antidote than there were hostages,” he explained. Officers, however, acting in that atmosphere of severe stress, “sometimes weren’t unable to say who’d already gotten injected with the antidote, and who hadn’t.” Nikolai Patrushev, evaluating for the first time the famous events on Dubrovka, did not specify which link in the chain failed, reported
‘NEWSru’.
On October 23rd, 2002, about 40 terrorists broke into the theatrical center on Dubrovka during a show. They took hostage 914 spectators and participants of the play ‘Nord-Ost’. Most of the hostages were freed as a result of an assault early in the morning of October 26th, but, according to the official version, the tragedy claimed the lives of 130. According to reports, all of the militants were destroyed, but their names still frequently appear on lists of the most-wanted Chechen militants.
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