Posted on 12/12/2010 10:40:08 AM PST by lbryce
The release of over 250,000 diplomatic cables has revealed a lot about the intricacies of U.S. diplomacy. However, one aspect of the WikiLeaks release that has been much under the media's radar is what the leaked cables have said about Russia and its surrogate-state sponsorship of what would most accurately be described as an international terrorist network.
In a diplomatic cable dated August 6, 2008, regarding a meeting between U.S. and Russian experts on the export of Man-Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS) from Russia, the State Department expressed its concern about "Russian ammunition, sold to Venezuela ... found in possession of the FARC" Colombian terrorist group.
Four days later, in another cable, the State Department reiterated its concern regarding "recovered Russian-origin ammunition in Colombia, the ongoing Russian sale of advanced Igla-S MANPADS to Venezuela," which "have all reinforced growing concerns about the risk of increasing proliferation of arms to terrorist and criminal organizations in the region."
When "questions and comparisons were raised by the U.S. side about Russian ammunition, sold to Venezuela, and found in possession of the FARC," the cable states that the leader of the Russian delegation, a Col. Oleg Skabara, "first suggested that the ammunition did not come from Russia, but was probably a sale from 'unlicensed production,' a suggestion that it was manufactured in a third country without appropriate permits from Russia."
When the U.S. delegation did not buy into Skabara's explanation so easily, indicating "that the ammunition carried factory stamps, and that we provided this information," the Russians tried to brush off the accusation by asserting "that the meeting was to discuss MANPADS, not ammunition, and that these are different weapons and the approach, scale, and control applied to them are different."
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Putin and his thugs we'll utilize whatever is at their disposal to undermine what has been their lifelong adversary the "decadent capitalist entity". You go with what works.
It is that "Islamic terror" is the new Communism, it terms of undermining the US, plain and simple. Be it through ideological contrivances,schemes or the demagoguery espoused by Islamic fundamentalism, it's all about attaining, maintaining power through control of the masses.
This goes way back.. the boy-loving Arafat was a longtime operative of the Soviets.
Should be no surprise here...as Russia has been helping Iran for years.
Now, the Russians have just bought a Wyoming uranium mine....just freakin’ dandy....
For heck’s sake, putin sung “soviet-era patriotic songs” with the recent spies.
They imploded sure, but nothing actually changed. Except now they have all the things about capitalism they used to say the war was about, because they work. So what is/was the war about again? Simple national interest. All the hype about some political/moral worldview was just a maniplutive weapon. All the leftists in America really were/are useful idiots, after all.
During the days of the Soviet Union, they sponsored terrorism all over the world. Part of it was class warfare, and part of it was sponsoring violent revolution in third-world hell holes.
Since Russia itself is threatened by Muslim terrorists, it might have been possible to make a deal with them. We have common interests in protecting ourselves against the threat of Islam, and also of a potential future enemy in China.
More than anything else, it was Bill Clinton who put an end to that, when he attacked Russia’s “little brothers,” the Serbs. Not only did he fight that war on the wrong side, helping Muslim terrorists against Christians (who were not perfect, but no more to blame for the earlier violence than the encroaching Muslims), but he deeply alienated Russia.
Putin mentioned Kosovo as a precedent when he invaded Georgia and stole a piece of it.
George Bush hoped to ally the U.S. with Russia early in his first term. Recall the days of “Pooty Poot.” But it was not to be, because clinton had made it impossible. And Bush refused to acknowledge clinton’s blunder, agreeing to let the Muslims steal Kosovo from the Serbs, and even helping them.
And the press and pundits still don’t get it.
Thank God for Wikileaks. The good far out weighs the bad
1.The Vatican stone walled investigation into pedophile priests in Ireland who had sexually abused over 350 children
2. Saudi Arabia is actively flowing money to Al Queada ,who killed 3000 of our people on 911 and kill our troops every day.
3. Hilliary ordered spying on UN diplomats and psycho analysis of the leader of Argentina.
Much more to come!!
and Osama Bin Laden was an operative of USA in Afghanistan to defeat the Soviets. Tit for Tat. The wheel turns. Where it stops, nobody knows. (Armageddon?)
Kosovo was part of the criminal gang pathway transporting drugs and sex slave trade to Europe.
Little of what Clinton did makes sense unless you understand the Clinton/drug connection. Think of it as competing mafia and the US entanglement in Kosovo makes more sense.
“This goes way back.. the boy-loving Arafat was a longtime operative of the Soviets.”
Sadly, to survive, thugs and perverts like these need ‘friends in high places.’ Reminds me of how people like Capone thrived.
Nothing to worry about. Obama’s START Treaty will make Russia see the light! /sar
Oh, sure. Clinton was a drug gangster all his life. He took his cut from the Mexican cartels, welcomed drug lords to the White House, and presumably also took his 5% from the Albanian drug mob.
But he also started that war to distract attention from Monicagate. And it’s one of those wars that all liberals just love. Clinton bombed civilian targets and they didn’t give a damn, because it was only those evil, Nazi Serbs.
The German Socialists, British Labour, and clinton all led the way in NATO. Even the Republicans caved after about two days, and no prominent Republican has ever pointed out that this was clinton’s war, FOUGHT ON THE WRONG SIDE.
Duh. Jimmy From Brooklyn has been saying this for years...Heckmajar (or something like that) was a soviet agent that helped start this palestinian/anti Israel movement...He was trained by the soviets.
If I ran the state department, rule #1 would be:
NEVER trust the Russians.Period.
(Rule#2: Islam is NOT a religion of peace)
one aspect of the WikiLeaks release that has been much under the media's radar is what the leaked cables have said about Russia and its surrogate-state sponsorship of what would most accurately be described as an international terrorist networkGee, I wonder why that is? /sarc
Should anyone be surprised that an ex-KGB agent, vestigial cast-offs of the glorious “Workers’ Paradise”, of yesteryear yearning, still dreaming of the halcyon days of Soviet subterfuge in its heyday during the Cold War, still in relentless struggle against their arch-enemy, the USA?
1 posted on Sunday, December 12, 2010 12:40:15 PM by lbryce
No the fact that Russia sponsors Terrorism against its enemies is not a surprise.
What is surprising is that foolish Americans elected a pResident who sponsors Terrorism against the American people.
Contact your congressman, senators, County Sheriff, DA, State Legislators, Governor, and County Grand Jury Foreman and demand that they indict, prosecute, convict and imprison BO and all his local co-conspirators for leaking information to WikiLeaks and all the other crimes: Voter Fraud, Identity Theft, Illegal Foreign Campaign Contributions, TSA Sexual Assaults, Poisoning of Gulf of Mexico, Embezzlement of Government funds etc.
http://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2009/06/how-to-start-and-lead-citizens-grand.html
Only, it wasn't the Serbs who aided the Nazis, it was the Croatians (Serbs helped the Allies).
You are so right about the results of our blunder in the Balkans; we may pay for that this century, just as most of the events of the 20th Century had their roots in the blunder that was WWI.
Failing to secure the Russians as friends in the post- Soviet world will be a big mistake.
I had an Air Force Fighter pilot friend who went to Russia in the 1990s as a missionary to the Russian military, who had previously been our enemies.
We bungled a huge opportunity.
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