Or maybe it’s all Georgia’s fault…

Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of Russia’s security council and former director of the FSB, isn’t saying that Georgia’s behind this week’s terrorist attacks, but you never know:  “All theories have to be checked. For example, there is Georgia and the leader of that state, Saakashvili, whose behaviour is unpredictable,” Mr Patrushev told the Kommersant newspaper. “He ...

By , a former associate editor at Foreign Policy.

Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of Russia's security council and former director of the FSB, isn't saying that Georgia's behind this week's terrorist attacks, but you never know: 

Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of Russia’s security council and former director of the FSB, isn’t saying that Georgia’s behind this week’s terrorist attacks, but you never know: 

“All theories have to be checked. For example, there is Georgia and the leader of that state, Saakashvili, whose behaviour is unpredictable,” Mr Patrushev told the Kommersant newspaper.

“He has already unleashed war once. It is possible that he may unleash it again. We have had information that individual members of Georgian special forces support contacts with terrorist organisations in the Russian North Caucasus. We must check this also in relation to the acts of terror in Moscow.”

Patrushev’s statement was similarly phrased to Sergei Lavrov’s speculation that the attacks could have originated from Afghanistan or Pakistan. Anything could be possible," the defense minister said yesterday. 

For what it’s worth, a Chechen separatist group claimed responsibility for the attacks today. 

Joshua Keating was an associate editor at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @joshuakeating

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