Beech - hats on the towers.

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 Picking up the phone, Basayev dialed the number he had helped
or by heart, and when they responded at the other end of the line, he said:
  - Tama!
  Then he hung up.
  Some explanations are in order here.
  Everyone knows that behind any blood in our time there are
someone's money. The activities of Shamil Basayev are in no way
was an exception to this rule. How now I’m finally tired
updated, the main Moscow sponsor and ally of Basayev was
General Director of Tuta Bank Kim Polkanov. It is he who is still for
two months before the events described, developed vigorous activity in
buying karakul, which as a result almost tripled in price.
  At this point we would like to make one extremely important point:
tagging. In no case should Tuta-Bank be confused with Tama-Bank.
bank", and some conceptual similarity of their names we
We're trying to explain. It's connectedwith the initial
accumulations.  In those days when Polka of them walked into the gateway and
asked Polkanov where the bank is, Polkanov answered:
  - Tuta!
  After which he immediately hit the client on the head. Either from senti-
mentality, or out of superstition, the entrepreneur did not want to dis-
deal with the word that brought him luck, money and the opportunity to
join the top ten Russian financiers.
  As for Marlen Khruslin, president of the board of directors,
ditch of Tama Bank, then he, like all entrepreneurs in those years
economic slavery, was also forced to use a sign
labeled "Currency Exchange" but his role was to guide the client
into the gateway, where a completely different legal entity stood with a stranglehold
coy. When passers-by, seeing the sign, asked where
bank, Khryuslin, pointing deeper into the gateway, said: “Tama.” Ta-
what a way to accumulate funds - and completely legal -
noble and respectable in everything related to the activities of the
Khryuslina, - turned out to be very effective, because most
citizens decided to turn into the gateway, at the entrance to which
stood a handsome and intelligent man.  It is clear that, having learned
the truth about the activities of his partner, Khryuslin broke up with him
all sorts of business contacts, but funds collected during work with
Khryuslin, it was enough for this partner to open his own business -
notorious"Vona Bank".
  We are somewhat distracted from the outline of events, but we hope that the
now it became clear who, using the cri-
zis, is inflating the current scandal around Tama Bank.  Smart chi-
the reader will easily understand everything himself if he pays attention to
that it was the newspapers bought by Vona Bank that were trying their best to
are trying to connect the activities of Tama Bank with the Kremlin events.
  So, having contacted Polkanov by phone, Shamil Basaev
said only one word:
  - Tama!
  It was a conditioned signal, chosen specifically so that
cast a shadow on Tama Bank, which, we repeat, is absolutely
who had nothing to do with this whole story, but was fundamentally
a great competitor of Polkanov. Immediately after this, from Polk's dacha -
Now two covered trucks left in the direction of the Kremlin, which
freely entered its territory. The gate behind them is not
slowly closed, and after a few hours the stars were on everyone
Kremlin towers disappeared under huge astrakhan fur hats.
  The Basayevites, who carried out this operation with lightning speed, had with them
all the necessary climbing equipment, and before that a long
spent time training in the mountains. Having ordered the sentries to double their vigilance,
ity, Basayev performed namaz and began to wait for the envoys.
  To explain why this wait was delayed, it should be said:
say a few words about the situation in Moscow. Rumors aboutCapture Cream
la, as already noted, circulated for a long time within the limits
lah of the Garden Ring, and they were carried mainly by taxi drivers,
refusing to carry passengers through the center or demanding payment
This is an incredible fee. The first news of the successful terrorist attack was
walked to the FSB from one of the employees who was commuting to work by
taxi. At first they didn’t believe what they heard. When the information is
received confirmation, the FSB decided to check just in case
they called her to the Moscow bureau of the CNN television company. There they say
They said that no one agreed on anything with them, and the FSB
The conclusion is that the information is false.
  The situation was complicated by the fact that the top leadership of the FSB during this
spent time accompanying the President on an official visit to
Greenland, and it was impossible to make quick responsible decisions
mu. So the low activity of law enforcement agencies in the first two
day of the operation there are completely objective reasons.  As for
rumors that the guards, who were aware of possible events, simply
took the breadwinner away, then we don’t consider them seriously -
all these Solntsevo and Dolgoprudny election maneuvers are pro-
a hundred are disgusting. Do not seriously argue with the opinion that such
the distant place for the visit was chosen because the terrorists
there was an atomic warhead, purchased on the way from Ukraine.

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