Can ya ping some more folks to this thread? Important article discussing Russia.
From Alexander Litvinenko, FSB defector who was poisoned with Polonium 210 awhile back in London. His poisoner is still at large. The Russians refuse to extradite the only suspect. He talks about international terrorism, including the claim that Al-Qaeda's number 2 (now number 1, with Osama's death) is an agent of the FSB:
A. Litvinenko: The bloodiest terrorists in the world were or are agents of the KGB-FSB. These are well-known, like Carlos Ilyich Ramiros, nicknamed "the Jackal," the late Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, Adjalan (he is condemned in Turkey), Wadi Haddad, the head of the service of external operations of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Hauyi, the head of the communist party of Lebanon, Mr. Papaionnu from the Cyprus, Sean Garland from Ireland and many others. All of them were trained by the KGB, received money from there, weapons and explosives, counterfeit documents and a communication equipment for carrying out of acts of terrorism worldwide.
FAKT: Some may object that each of the listed figures, and the forces supporting them, were engaged in solving their own political problems.
A. Litvinenko: Certainly, all these figures and movements operated under their own slogans; however, none of them especially hid their "intimate" ... relationship with the Kremlin and Lubyanka. There is a simple question: whether the Russian special services would train and finance people and groups that were not supervised by Lubyanka and did not serve the interests of the Kremlin? You understand perfectly, they would not. Each act of terrorism made by these people was carried out as an assignment and under the rigid control of the KGB of the USSR. And [the terrorism] ... is not casual after the disintegration of the USSR and [reform of the KGB]....
FAKT: Every terrorist you have named is from 'the old staff' of the KGB. Could you name someone from recent history?
A. Litvinenko: Certainly, here it is. The number two person in the terrorist organization al Qaeda, who they are crediting with the series of explosions in London, Ayman al-Zawahiri, is an old agent of the FSB. Being sentenced to death in Egypt for terrorism and hunted by Interpol, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in 1998, was in the territory of Dagestan, where for half a year he received special training at one of the educational bases of the FSB. After this training he was transferred to Afghanistan, where he had never been before and where, following the recommendation of his Lubyanka chiefs, he at once ... penetrated the milieu of bin Laden and soon became his assistant in al Qaeda.
FAKT: Could you hint at least, where this data comes from?
A. Litvinenko: I can. During my service in one of the most secret departments of the FSB, top officials from the UFSB of Dagestan, who had directly worked with Ayman al-Zawahiri ... were called to Moscow and received high posts."
http://www.jrnyquist.com/nyquist_2005_0813.htm
From Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa, highest ranking defector to ever come over to the west. Confirms Russia's role in world wide Islamic terrorism. Click link to know more:
http://www.wnd.com/2012/09/a-brand-new-cold-war/#xlJa1vQ9XhuPd84d.99
More from Pacepa:
http://pamelageller.com/2007/08/how-the-kgb-cre.html/#sthash.NYLkqtDR.dpuf
From KGB defector Anatoliy Golitsyn and an anecdote from General Alexander Sakharovsky, same topic as the previous. See link:
http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/asia/item/13069-russian-red-jihad
Finally, modern use of terrorism in Russia against Russian citizens. The apartment bombings mentioned in Nyquist's article:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/nov/22/finally-we-know-about-moscow-bombings/
“Also points out Russia’s continuing support of Communist dictatorships across the world.”
Do we qualify yet?
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Wait...
WHAT????
THIS SIMPLY CANNOT BE TRUE!!
Remember the movie, “Lord of War”?
Nicholas Cage told us that Viktor Bout and Leonid Minin were AMERICANS FROM TEXAS, working for the CIA!!
The KGB was never mentioned.
(Yet another example of how Americans have become dumbed-down. It just wasn’t “dramatic enough” to play them as Russians and the KGB.
I have actually had libs tell me that this movie is a TRUE STORY!!)
Governors Palin and Romney were right about Vlad,Obola was wrong.
"They're here..."
Excellent read, thanks.
“even a relatively clueless businessmen instinctively fears expropriation”
Obama’s explanation of redistribution to joe the plumber did not disqualify him. His ‘you did not build that speech’ did not hurt his reelection.
Why? Did the business community not believe his threats or are they the supporters he rewards?
My German mother said no one believed Hitler was any danger because he had little support. She describes the process of ‘change’ as slowly at first then all at once.
Inasmuch as I have no trust in the Russian government (any more than our own) the existence of a premise based upon a projected motive does not constitute establishment of culpability. Mr. Nyquist knows better than this.
And why our intelligence assets are not being directed at Russia. It is a brilliant plan to destroy us and still few will believe it.