
Pavel Kosolapov
Axis news 30.11.2009
The only name mentioned by the Russian security services in connection with bombing of the passenger train Nevsky Express, has been a certain Pavel Kosolapov, who is named ‘a Russian bin Laden’ by the Moscow-based daily Moskovsky komsomolets (MK).
The security services possess his photo and all data about him, and an identikit of his prospective accomplice, however, investigation has not brought any results. Moreover, there is no photo of Kosolapov on police stations stands and on the website of the Ministry of Interior, MK marks. While the US FBI have hang out photos of the searched persons by packs, the website of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) does not have such section at all, as it is classified information, the paper was told by the FSB Public relations
Kosolapov’s name emerged after damage of a power transmission line in Moscow suburbs five years ago.
Self-made explosives were been found out on some bulwark and the flag of Ichkeria was attached to one of them, MK expands. The FSB operative services received reports that an arms room was found in a nine-storey apartment house in Lyubertsy. The flat’s rent contract was concluded with a certain 24-years-old native of Volgograd area Pavel Kosolapov. The biggest success of the FSB operatives was another find, false documents with photos of terrorists and a copybook with records and a scheme of mining of gas pipelines in Moscow area. It was found out that Pavel Kosolapov, a former military school cadet, had accepted Islam and taken new names, Abu Aiyad and Muhammad, and in 2001 had left for the Chechen Republic. He reportedly has had training preparation in the camps of Arabian field commanders Abu Khuteiba and Abu-Dzeida as a demolition man, the most elite trade among terrorists. After liquidation of Abu-Dzeida, the FSB operatives found out his notebook with archive. Among the sets of photos there were also photographs of Kosolapov and other insurgents; one of the photos showed Kosolapov drawing a map with a site of gas pipeline undermining.


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