Posted on 12/17/2006 4:03:30 PM PST by DAVEY CROCKETT
I put his name in google:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Asludi+Musaev&hl=en&lr=&rls=com.netscape:en-US&filter=0
Got a news linka nd translated it, so far I do not see his name, but the last one on the page, talks about kidnapping engineers in 2003, and from my digging, I get the idea that they were there, maybe as American oil people:
[I may be mixing up the news reports, they might not be related, this is the name above it]
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&rls=com.netscape%3Aen-US&q=+Buti+of+the+district+Shatojskogo&btnG=Search
led me to this: http://psi.ece.jhu.edu/~kaplan/IRUSS/ARCHIVE/1.96.html
The translated page, from the name search, the stolen people, may be as hostages, slaves, or under arrest.
It says the Taliban organized the kidnappings, just as they did in Pakistan last week???
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.translatednews.de/2005/06/03/news-19202.html&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3DAsludi%2BMusaev%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26rls%3Dcom.netscape:en-US
3 OF June 2005 In Chechnya the Milizionär is taken away (stolen)
In Chechnya equipped humans (people) took the coworker away of the ministry of the Interior of the republic, communicated the source in the ministry of the Interior. “The day before at 20.00 in the settlement (village) Il'inskaja of the district Groznenskogo the unknown quantities in kamuflirovannoj the form, arriving on two machines (cars) - UAZ and” Lada (Shiguliberge) penetrated “, the house of the Milizionäres the shelf vnevedomstvennoj the protection (guard) at the ministry of the Interior of the republic and, with the automatic Feuerwaffe threateningly, it (it) in the unknown direction” continued, - the source said. Related news
The fighters took six away humans in Chechnya 17 OF September 2004 In Chechnya the fighters took four away peaceful citizen and two coworkers of the militia, communicated on Friday the source in the ministry of the Interior of the republic. “The day before the fighters led a whole number of the thefts (kidnappings) of the peaceful inhabitants, in addition and something coworker of the ministry of the Interior of the Chechnian republic” was taken away (stolen), - the representative of the ministry of the Interior communicated. After its words four humans are taken away in Urus Martanovskom and the districts Achhoj Martanovskom (stolen). Leninskom Grosnys was taken away from two Milizionäre in the district (stolen).
The chapter (head) of the Chechnian populated point Buti is taken away (stolen) 14 OF July 2004 The chapter (head) of the administration of the populated point Buti of the district Shatojskogo treats Isaldebirov is taken away from the unknown persons (stolen). It into Wednesday (environment) communicated the secretary of the security council the mine Dudaev to the Chechnian republic. Also, after the words R.Dudaevas, this humans (people) is taken away from two Milizionäre of the district Sharojskogo (stolen): Asludi Musalov and Zajnutdin Musalov. Also the control weapon is - taken away from two automats Kalaschnikows and the pistol Makarova (stolen). The two taken away (stolen) Milizionäre are the related (approach) brothers of the chapter (head) of the administration Sharojskogo of the district Raso Musalova, them were prikomandirovany to it as the awake soldiers.
In Grosny five humans are taken away (stolen) 5 OF January 2004 In Chechnya, in the district Staropromyslovskom Grosnys is five humans taken away from the unknown quantities (stolen), communicates Ria Novosti .po the given (available) ministries of the Interior of the Chechnian republic, the night on Sunday 10 equipped humans in the camouflage the house 23 in the small town Majakovskogo penetrated and used the man and four women away there took. The legal protection organs the personalities taken away (stolen) admits. It is 25-year old Magomed Musaev, 30-jährige Luisa Musaeva, 28-jährige Elizabeth Musaeva, as well as 55-jährig Pitimat Gambulatova and 37-jährig Salmatu Hasueva. The measures are seized to the search taken away (stolen) Zurzeit.
In Chechnya is shot evenly it is the Milizionär robs of 12 OF October 2004 In Chechnya the criminals took shot evenly to have his control weapon from the Milizionär away. It communicated the source in the ministry of the Interior to the republic. “Is discovered the day before in 13.20 in the district Staropromyslovskom Grosnys with the urban clinical hospital №3 with the firing schussverwundungen the corpse of the Milizionäres the shelf of the administration (control) vnevedomstvennoj the protection (guard) at the ministry of the Interior of Chechnya (uncovered)”, - the source said. After its words Makarova, the strengthened (fixed) automat Kalaschnikows and those are taken away from the damage associated machine (car) “Lada (Shiguliberge)” with the pleasure the control pistol (stolen).
In Afghanistan two workers from India (stolen) 7 OF December is taken away 2003 In Afghanistan two Indian worker are taken away (stolen), who concerned itself with the reconstruction of the Chaussee on the order of the USA (learned). The workers were taken away into the provinces Zabul' (stolen). There this yearly Turkish engineer was taken away in October (stolen). Probably, the crime was organized the “Taliban” of the movement.
[This starts as a view on real life and then goes to history, such as we forget all too often.
It is from a 1996 Russian Chat type list, I find it very interesting, as it is a glimpse into real people and their problems.....granny]
http://psi.ece.jhu.edu/~kaplan/IRUSS/ARCHIVE/1.96.html
[this is the starter]
From: BorisKa400@aol.com
To: info-russ@smarty.ece.jhu.edu
Subject: INFO-RUSS: Becoming Jewish in US.
Status: RO
Anarchists attack several targets in Athens
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/17/europe/EU-GEN-Greece-Attacks.php
Anarchists attack several targets in Athens
ATHENS, Greece: Assailants launched several attacks in and around the
Greek capital overnight, causing some fire damage but no injuries,
police said Wednesday.
In the worst incident, a group of about 30 people attacked riot police
with stones and flares in the central Exarcheia district shortly after
midnight, but dispersed shortly afterward.
A guard at the Hellenic-American Union in downtown Athens reported that
several passing motorcyclists threatened him with gasoline bombs but
fled after he fired a flare gun at them.
East of Athens, youths attacked a football association in the town of
Nea Makri with two gasoline bombs and rocks, breaking windows and
causing a small fire that was extinguished.
Such nighttime attacks, usually by self-styled anarchists, have
occurred
in Athens, Thessaloniki and other cities with increasing frequency in
recent months.
CK: Amnesty International is aggrieved with Supreme Court's decision on the case of Lapin, guilty of tortures in Chechnya
Caucasian Knot /Memorial
17/1/2007
Amnesty International is aggrieved with Supreme Court's decision on the
case of Lapin, guilty of tortures in Chechnya
"We are afflicted with the decision of the Court on Sergey Lapin,"
Fredericka Ber, representative of the largest in the world human rights
organization Amnesty International (AI) a AI's researcher for Russia,
stated to the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot."
On January 17, the Supreme Court of Russia has ruled to send the case
of
Sergey Lapin (radio call sign "Cadet"), criminal search senior
lieutenant of the Interior Department of the city of Nizhnevartovsk,
who
was convicted for torturing Zelimkhan Murdalov, a resident of Grozny,
capital of Chechnya, for a new consideration at the Oktiabrskiy
District
Court of Grozny by a new composition of the court.
"From our point of view, the court has wrongly doubted of the guilt
verdict, since the case files contain serious evidences against the
officer," the human rights activist has explained.
On March 31, 2005, the Amnesty International, which has its
headquarters
in London, welcomed passing a guilty verdict to Sergey Lapin by the
Oktiabrskiy Court of the city of Grozny.
"For the first time a militant of the Russian Federal Troops had faced
justice in Chechnya itself for breaking human rights in relation to
civilians. Sergey Lapin had appeared to be involved in tortures and
"disappearance" of Zelimkhan Murdalov, 26, who was detained on January
2, 2001, in Grozny. On March 29, 2005, Lapin was accounted guilty of
deliberate causing heavy harm to one's health under aggravating
circumstances (Article 111, Part 3, of the Criminal Code of the Russian
Federation); excess of official powers under aggravating circumstances
(Article 286, Part 3), and service forgery (Article 292). He was
sentenced to 11 years of imprisonment in a tight security colony. After
release, he will be prohibited to work in power agencies during three
years. Besides, the Court sent a special ruling to the head of the
Khanty-Mansijsk "OMON" (Special Militia), in which, as it is reported,
the actions of the fighters of the unit that had served in Chechnya
were
exposed to a broader criticism. Other persons involved in Murdalov's
tortures and "disappearance" are still to be identified and brought to
responsibility," the AI's statement ran.
http://eng.kavkaz.memo.ru/newstext/engnews/id/1172896.html
Imam gets 7 months jail for CBT
http://www.brunei-online.com/bb/wed/jan17h3.htm
Imam gets 7 months jail for CBT
By Malai FadleyRizal
The imam of Kg Sg Liang Mosque was sentenced to seven months' jail
after
pleading guilty to four charges of committing criminal breach of trust
before the High Court yesterday.
Awang Zawawi bin Haji Nordin (Imam Grade III) took $15,285 from the
mosque that was entrusted with him while holding the position. Between
June 2002 and May 2003 the defendant took $12,825, in June 2003, he
took
$760, in July $1,100 and another $700.
The defendant's duties included being the treasurer of the mosque's
finances where he would compile statements of the mosque's finances and
hand them monthly to the District Officer of Mosque Affairs, collecting
money deposited into the collection box at the mosque after Friday
prayers and remitting the money into the mosque's bank account
maintained at IBB.
The collection box would hold money donated by members of the Friday
congregation and members of the public who visited the mosque.
The defendant was also responsible for arranging maintenance and
catering for small functions of the mosque, the money for which would
be
financed from the mosque's bank account.
The defendant was sent reminders, which were also forwarded to the
Controller of Mosque Affairs, as financial statements for the mosque
were not received.
Two officers were then sent to see the defendant at the mosque and
evaluate the finances of the mosque.
The defendant then admitted to taking all the money and using it for
his
personal expenses.
He was given time to pay back all the money but failed to do so.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Pg Jasmine Pg Hj Bahrin represented the Public
Prosecutor in the case.
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,21078963-5001021,00.html#
RAAF man 'had explosives stash'
Exclusive by Kara Lawrence and Lillian Saleh
January 18, 2007 12:00
POLICE have charged a Royal Australian Air Force employee after seizing a stash of Power Gel explosive, detonators, and a number of "homemade devices" that could be bombs, The Daily Telegraph can reveal.
The man, aged around 30, is an electrical engineer who works on RAAF planes.
He recently was transferred from Amberley RAAF base in Queensland to Williamtown RAAF, near Newcastle, home to planes including the F/A 18-Hornet
Auburn police arrested him on Monday as he reported for his first day of work there.
His arrest follows the discovery of more than 5kgs of Power Gel explosive found by transport company employees in a car at Toll Transport’s Autologistics vehicle yard on Robert Rd, Greenacre, on Tuesday of last week.
The aqua-green Ford EA Falcon had had been transport to the centre from Queensland as part of the RAAF employee’s move interstate.
Fire brigade officers earlier covered the car in fire protection material due to fears about the explosives on board, and Auburn police were called in to investigate.
Counter-terrorism police were also alerted.
At the time, a Police Media Unit spokesman refused to say what the material in the car was, but said: "The item poses no threat to any public safety".
On Tuesday this week, the day after police arrested the man, they intercepted a removalist truck near Newcastle and recovered a large locked box that contained a couple of detonators and home-made devices, as well as old firearms.
The Australian Army is believed to be examining the devices, believed to be makeshift explosives.
The Australian Defence Force has also been called in to investigate the possible source of the Power Gel explosive, which may have come from the mining industry.
Sources told the Telegraph it is not believed the man was involved in terrorist activity but expressed concern that someone with access to RAAF planes also allegedly kept a personal stash of explosives.
It is a further embarrassment to the ADF following the theft of what are believed to be Australian Army rocket launchers that found their way into the hands of criminals and suspected terrorists in 2003.
The engineer is to face court on a number of charges relating to explosives.
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,21078724-5001021,00.html
Theft not motive in beheading
By Luke McIlveen and Samantha Williams
January 18, 2007 12:00
DETECTIVES investigating the beheading murder of World War II digger Mark "Snow" Hutchinson do not believe robbery was the motive.
In a statement this morning, Police say they "are following a number of lines of inquiry, and while they are currently focusing on Mr Hutchinson’s recent movements and contacts, they have not ruled out looking into his past".
"They do not believe robbery was a motive in the killing."
The police ask that anyone who can assist with their investigation contact via Armidale Police Station on (02) 6771 0699 or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
Police made their renewed request for assistance after The Daily Telegraph revealed for the first time details of Mr Hutchinson's war heroics, including this picture in which the tough-as-teak young soldier from Armidale proudly poses for the camera with a captured Japanese "good luck" flag seized from the enemy after a firefight.
Mr Hutchinson survived hellish conditions in Borneo and was looking forward to coming home to live a normal life. A close friend said 'Snow' didn't have an "enemy in the world".
The man, who did not want to be named, served with Mr Hutchinson in the 2/12 Field Regiment Artillery.
He said the men in the regiment were shocked something like this could happen to a "dear friend".
"It's completely out of character for this to happen to Mark, he was such a great bloke. It couldn't be personal," the friend said.
"Mind you, if someone tried to break into his home he wouldn't take a backward step."
The friend said Mr Hutchinson's wife Anne died about a decade ago.
They had no children of their own but his wife had two from a former marriage.
Mr Hutchinson had managed cattle properties in southern Queensland as well as in NSW at Warren and Cootamundra, he said.
Mr Hutchinson enlisted on May 10, 1943, and was given the service number NX172547.
The exclusive photograph of Mr Hutchinson and his comrades, obtained by The Daily Telegraph , shows the "good luck" flag often found in the possession of Japanese troops.
The flags were scrawled with messages from home and kept by Japanese soldiers as a talisman.
Yesterday, like clockwork, Mr Hutchinson's friends in the walking group the Armidale Amblers filed into Caffeinds coffee shop at 9.30am after their 8km walk.
They sat at their usual table near the window, which had a red sign reading "good morning walkers".
But instead of debates about religion and politics, the mood was sombre.
"He will be hugely missed," club member Brian Hardaker said.
"He was an old-fashioned gentleman, very polite and friendly.
"He was very fit for his age, one of the quicker walkers in the group."
After the war, Mr Hutchinson enrolled at Hawkesbury Agricultural College and later worked in the Department of Water Resources.
Snow
Spoils of war ... Mark Hutchinson (second from left in front row). / The Daily Telegraph
Go and look at the photo, if you want to see a man who has no soul...granny
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,21074676-5001021,00.html
Sheik's DVD a backyard job
Kara Lawrence and Lillian Saleh
January 18, 2007 12:00
THE hate videos in which radical cleric Sheik Feiz Mohammed depicts Jews as pigs were filmed and distributed by a backyard studio in Sydney's southwest.
The Death Series DVDs – in which Sheik Feiz calls Jews pigs and commands children to become holy warriors – were being sold by One Islam Productions until The Daily Telegraph exposed them yesterday.
"To be honest we just get the call to record these things. We send a film crew but we don't really review them," director Subi Alshaik said.
"We realise the problem now and we have taken them off the shelves."
The Federal Government is now examining whether the DVDs were submitted for classification as required by law.
"The importation of hatred into Australia is totally unacceptable," acting Attorney-General Kevin Andrews said.
"These remarks and the others before them are condemned by the Government. We do not believe hatred and remarks of this nature should be made or imported into Australia."
Death Series, being sold as a box set of 15 DVDs, was available online for $150.
Calls from Jewish and community groups for Sheik Feiz to be charged under racial vilification and incitement to violence laws gathered momentum yesterday .
"The public prosecutor, the federal prosecutor should really have a close look as what is being conveyed by this guy and whether it is in breach of any laws and he should be charged," Community Relations Commission chairman Stepan Kerkyasharian said.
The Australian Federal Police confirmed the videos were being investigated to see whether national security and racial vilification laws had been broken.
"The AFP is aware of the DVD entitled Death Series and we are making inquiries relating to that," a spokeswoman said.
Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd said the sheik should be banned from returning to Australia.
"Do not return to Australia, you are not welcome here," Mr Rudd said. "As I see it (his) statements add up to incitement to terrorism."
The "lectures" were recorded at the Global Islamic Youth Centre in Liverpool about two years ago.
"We want to have children and offer them as soldiers defending Islam," Sheik Feiz said in one.
"Teach them this: There is nothing more beloved to me than wanting to die as a mujahid (holy warrior). Put in their soft, tender hearts the zeal of jihad and a love of martyrdom."
Morris Iemma says he'll act to ban the sale of a DVD in which radical Muslim cleric Sheik Feiz Mohammed calls Jews pigs and urges children to die for Allah.
"This DVD goes a lot further than vilification," the Premier told reporters in Sydney.
"The sort of incitement that's taking place, or that the DVD encourages, is incitement to acts of violence and acts of terror.
"I will take the advice of the Attorney-General but there are specific laws in the commonwealth jurisdiction on the sale of this material and that's why we'll be seeking the cooperation of the federal Attorney-General to take whatever steps are necessary."
Sydney cleric
Sheik Feiz ... jihad and a burning hate for infidels is what all radical muslims need, according to Feiz. / The Daily Telegraph
Related links
* Audio: Kill for Islam and win paradise
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Latest Comments:
In my religion, this guy is known as a Pagan. You don't see me preaching in his country about it!
Posted by: Tracy of Perth 3:22pm today
Could all the people please stop telling this guy to practice what he preaches, I sure don't want this fool blowing himself up on my train home this afternoon.
Posted by: Simon of Central Coast 3:15pm today
Our Premier, the member for Lakemba, depends on their votes and will continue to protect them.
Posted by: Gerard Huitii of 3:12pm today
I saw this idiot lie through his death in an interview with 60 Minutes. He should not be able to set foot in Australia again, he is an absolute joke and has upset millions of people. WHY ON EARTH CAN'T SOMEONE DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS RACIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Joanne McStay of Sydney 3:05pm today
Well done Franny I agreed with you 100%!!!!!
Posted by: RT of NSW 2:58pm today
What a LOSERRRRRRRRR... he should be deported immediately....
Posted by: RT of NSW 2:56pm today
The government will do little if nothing untill the next elections come around ,then we will see all the usual election vote promise crap to win votes and tell us that people like him will face the music,once elected again it will all be water under the bridge as usual.
Posted by: Brad Stalling of NSW 2:56pm today
Australian citizens, whether you are born in this country or not - ought to consider themselves first and foremost Australians, with everything else, including religion, coming second. To make suggestions that Australia is a muslim country, or that any non-muslim is an infidel, vilification of Jewish people, women and anyone else who does not conform to what the radicals consider as pure is just dead set treason and needs to be treated as such. In case new arrivals dont know, Australia is a nation proud of our ability to not give a toss whether someone is religious or not - Australia is a nation of believers and non-believers (of any kind of faith) living together peacefully, and if that is not acceptable, then those who cannot handle it ought to just pack up and leave - Australia does not need citizens like that. I dont care what colour you are, what religion you practice, or whether you agree with current political events - it is our right to speak our opinions - but for those who want to try and create hatred where there currently is none, then it is best that they be shown up for what they are - hatemongers and warmongers - and exiled from this country forever. Its as simple as that. I dont know about anyone elses experience, but for me growing up Australian was just about having fun as a kid, playing and mucking around, going to school, graduating, hanging out on the dole for a while, getting a job, getting married (eventually) and buying our house. I love politcs but speaking my mind is about as radical as it needs to be, protesting en masse with groups of like minded people - but never, ever would I ever try to get other citizens to rise up and do harm to other Australians. I love the freedom and choice that Australian life has to offer and simply cannot understand why anyone would want to try to wreck our peaceful society by preaching jihad. This bloke sounds like he has way too much time on his hands - but then again, he's probably never contributed to the greater Australian society so no wonder he feels like an alien. Those expecting a free ride through life will always feel disaffected.
Posted by: slimshady of Perth WA 2:55pm today
If these idiots say this stuff, why publish it? They do it for attention... they are like 2 year olds having tantrums, ignore them and they will go away!!
Posted by: M of SYDNEY 2:52pm today
Being in a democratic elected country, why arent the pollies bringing in LAWS to deport these idiots if they dont like the way of life in Australia, send them home!
Posted by: Damian of 2:49pm today
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Guess this would be called " a page of odd and odder news:
http://flowing-dancer.livejournal.com/90249.html
Spaniel follows phone scent
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2153132.html?menu=news.quirkies
A dog has been hired to work full-time in a prison to sniff out illicit mobile phones.
Murphy the spaniel has undergone seven months of practice in finding hidden phones in Norwich prison.
Trainer Mel Barker has taught Murphy to detect one particular scent out of 20 given off by mobile handsets.
Exactly what he seeks out cannot be revealed for security reasons, reports the Sun.
However, his nose is so sensitive he can distinguish between the smell of officers' phones and illicit handsets.
Officer Frees Bald Eagle With One Bullet
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/01/09/national/a200915S34.DTL&type=bondage
(01-09) 20:42 PST Des Moines, Iowa (AP) --
A bald eagle owes its life to the sharpshooting skills of an Iowa conservation officer. Though the bird has yet to offer any thanks, Jason Sandholdt is getting plenty of recognition from those who saw him use a single bullet last weekend to free the bird from a branch that hung over a cliff at Lake Red Rock.
"There were accusations of sheer luck," said Brian Lange, one of the kayakers who discovered the bird Saturday and alerted authorities. He added: "It was really a heroic shot."
Sandholdt, who works for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, responded with state colleagues and county workers after the eagle was found hanging about 60 feet above the lake southeast of Des Moines.
With binoculars, they could see that the bird appeared to have caught a single talon in a knothole in the branch when it landed. Apparently, the bird tried to take off, losing its balance. It hung from the talon, upside down.
Because the eagle was hanging over a cliff and high in the air, ropes and ladders seemed unlikely rescue tools, Sandholdt said. Many in the group thought a mercy killing was the best option.
Sandholdt said he asked for a chance to free the bird with his rifle, figuring at best the bird would fall into the lake and have to be rescued for rehabilitation at a clinic.
"It's safe to say no one had any confidence that I could do that," Sandholdt said of his proposed sharpshooting. "My buddies were waiting for a poof of feathers."
Sandholdt bent a tree sapling over to use as a brace. He used the muzzleloader's scope to take aim, and the bullet traveled 60 to 70 feet, cleanly through the edge of the knothole. Sandholdt figures he hit the talon, too.
The eagle flew away. Officers waited for it to collapse. Instead, the bird kept flying, disappearing over the horizon.
"Wow, now that's what I call sharpshooting," said John Pearson, a state botanist who was with Lange when the bird was discovered.
No one is sure of the eagle's odds for survival, but it faced certain death before the rescue, Pearson said.
Information from: The Des Moines Register, www.desmoinesregister.com
Owl terrorises Middlesbrough
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2151571.html?menu=news.quirkies
A giant owl is terrorising shoppers and drinkers in Middlesbrough town centre.
The bird, capable of taking foxes and small deer, launches itself off high roofs and swoops on passers-by, reports the Sun.
The eagle owl, which has a 5ft wingspan, set up home on the roof of Middlesbrough train station in September - but turned nasty over Christmas.
Craig Smith told how the bird swooped on him from behind as he ran through the station car park to catch a train.
He recalled: "I heard a loud woo-woo noise and looked over my shoulder to see this creature with silver wings, claws stretched out.
"I ran as fast as I could on to the platform and it flew away. On Christmas Eve I saw it go for a man coming out of a pub and chase him down the street."
Another victim dad-of-four Mark Fryett, 40, said: "I was leaving work when I heard a hoot and a whoosh and saw this big white face coming at me. I put my arm up and hit its wing and it fell on the floor, but got up again and flew off.
"I was really shaken up. It was like something out of Harry Potter - I thought it was going to pick me up! I went home and called police, but I think they thought I was drunk."
Rachael Stewart, of the Kirkleatham Owl Centre in Redcar, North Yorks, said: "We think it must have escaped from a travelling show.
"Volunteers have tried to catch it a couple of times. It's not dangerous to people but it will have to hunt to survive. It could easily kill a cat or small dog."
ISI protecting Mullah Omar: Kabul
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=128079&version=1&template_id=41&parent_id=23
ISI protecting Mullah Omar: Kabul
Published: Thursday, 18 January, 2007, 08:31 AM Doha Time
KABUL: Taliban leader Mullah Omar is commanding rebel forces in
Afghanistan from across the border under the protection of Pakistan's
ISI secret service, a spokesman for the Afghan secret service said
yesterday, citing a captured insurgent.
According to the testimony of the high-ranking rebel, Omar was
operating
from the south-western Pakistani city of Quetta and was being protected
by the ISI, the spokesman said in Kabul.
Former ISI head Hamid Gul was supporting a training centre for Taliban
suicide attackers in Peshawar on the Afghan border that had been
disguised as a madrassa or Islamic religious school, he said.
The testimony is believed to come from former Taliban spokesman Mohamed
Hanif.
Hanif was arrested in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar on
Monday as he crossed the border from Pakistan.
"Hanif told us that without the help of the ISI, the Taliban would not
be able to offer any resistance (to the international troops and the
Afghan government) and that the ISI played a major role in arming and
financing the Taliban," Afghan secret service spokesman Sayed Ansari
said.
Omar went into hiding after the fall of the Taliban regime at the end
of
2001.
The news came as Afghan and Nato troops captured another Taliban leader
in the southern Afghan province of Helmand.
The Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) did not
release the name of the person detained but said he was placed into
Afghan police custody and was being interrogated.
He did not put up a fight, ISAF said yesterday.
Meanwhile, in Kabul, an Afghan guard prevented a suicide bombing at an
ISAF base when he identified a driver as looking suspicious and called
for backup, the ISAF said.
A large amount of explosives was found in his truck, and he was
arrested, the ISAF said. - DPA
Iran, Pakistan on US hit list, says Beg
http://www.dawn.com/2007/01/18/nat9.htm
Iran, Pakistan on US hit list, says Beg
By Ashraf Mumtaz
LAHORE, Jan 17: Former army chief Gen Mirza Aslam Beg says both Iran
and
Pakistan are on the "hit list" of the United States, and before
attacking the two countries the world's only super power is trying to
isolate them at the international level through diplomatic moves.
Talking to Dawn on Wednesday, he said Iran would be targeted first and
Pakistan at a later stage. But to prevent Pakistan from extending any
kind of assistance to its neighbour, Washington was trying to keep
Islamabad under constant pressure. Repeated allegations that
infiltration from Pakistan into Afghanistan was still going on should
be
seen in that context, the general said.
He said Pakistan and Iran should enhance mutual understanding and
cooperation to be able to face the challenge ahead. Also, he said, both
countries should approach their respective allies and seek their
cooperation to prevent what he called a dangerous situation for the
region.
He believed that together the two Islamic countries would be able to
counter what was being planned against them.
Gen Beg said the US knew that Iraq did not have nuclear capability and
still it attacked Iraq with its superior air and naval power. He said
now the US would go for massive strikes on Iran, using all satellite
bases it has in the neighbouring countries of the Middle East, Central
Asia and Africa.
According to him, the US could also use F-117 Stealth, which can take
off from the US bases, hit targets in Iran and go back. He said the US
had plans to destroy thousands of targets in the first 24 hours. The
former army chief said the US threats to Iran were a precursor to
attack.
About the moves to isolate Iran even among the Islamic countries, he
said, the visits of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and
Secretary
of Defence Robert Gates were meant for the same purpose.
They were telling the Arab countries in particular that Iran was
misbehaving and must be punished. The Iraqi president's visit to Syria
was also aimed at driving Damascus away from Tehran, and the ongoing
secret talks between Israel and Syria were also significant, said Gen
Beg.
He said learning a lesson from its experience in other countries, the
US
would avoid land battles and use the air and naval power and the rapid
action force instead.
To bring Pakistan under pressure, he said a senior US official John
Negroponte had alleged that Pakistan was still supporting the Taliban
and the NATO commander had said that after peace accord between the
government and the tribesmen in Waziristan, infiltration into
Afghanistan had also gone up manifold.
It was because of these allegations, Gen Beg said, that Pakistan had
launched a fresh operation against 'militants' killing several people
on
the very first day.
He said the US had been defeated both in Iraq and Afghanistan. Still,
in
his opinion, the US would not like to completely pull out from Iraq and
Afghanistan like the Soviet Union had done.
They would withdraw from both the countries, but at the same time
maintain their strong military presence there for the sake of influence
in the Gulf, Central Asia and South Asian region.
For this purpose, he said, the US troops were being redeployed and the
number of military bases being reduced around the world. Satellite
bases
had been activated to facilitate the operations of the rapid action
forces, deployed at the satellite bases, he said. He said the US also
could go for the option of regime change in Iran, which appeared more
probable through military intimidation and coercive diplomacy.
President Ahamadinejad's weak economic policies, rising inflation, poor
showing in the last elections, UN sanctions due to his unbending
nuclear
policy, anti-American rhetoric and many other factors made him very
'vulnerable'.
The former army chief said the US 'unilateralism' was harmful for the
global peace. He said the US was bypassing the United Nations in all
its
decisions because of which the world body was getting irrelevant. He
said the sanctity of the UN should not be violated in any situation.
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Uzbekistan's law enforcement agencies have arrested Gulbahor Turaeva, a physician and rights activists from Andijon, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Uzbek Service reports.
Turaeva's husband, Farit Angildin, told the RFE/RL his wife was detained late last week at the regional customs office. On the morning of January 16 the security forces officers took her to the National Security Service, according to Angildin. “They [called me], said everything would be sorted out in a week's time and that they will call me back."
Ferghana.ru news agency reports that Turaeva was detained while returning home from Osh, in neighboring Kyrgyzstan. It says she was found in possession of banned opposition publications. The agency quotes an unidentified security official as saying Turaeva was sent to Andijon for questioning and that she faces criminal charges for attempting to smuggle in printed material deemed dangerous to Uzbekistan's "constitutional order."
http://www.cpj.org/attacks06/pages06/imprison_06.html
Journalists imprisoned
as of December 1, 2006: 134
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2006/71417.htm
[a snipped part of the article]
The Government, citing national security concerns, has conducted a repressive campaign against persons perceived as Islamic extremists. Government employees generally feel less free to perform their religious responsibilities than do citizens in the private sector, as the state maintains a policy of secularism, and government employees are under greater scrutiny than others to maintain the separation between religion and state structures.
While somewhat supportive of moderate Muslims, the Government is intolerant of Islamic groups that it perceives to be extremist. A small but growing number of unofficial, independent mosques are allowed to operate quietly under the watch of official imams. Some sources have claimed that imams of registered mosques are required to submit lists of individuals in their congregations who may have extremist tendencies. Unlike the past reporting period, there were no new reports that the Government pressured some mahalla (neighborhood) committees and imams to report on those who prayed daily or otherwise demonstrated active devotion. The Government controls the content of imams' sermons and the volume and substance of published Islamic materials.
The Government's harsh treatment of suspected religious extremists has generally suppressed outward expressions of religious piety. Following the May 2005 violence in Andijon, authorities arrested some journalists and human rights activists on charges of religious extremism. There were also credible reports of mahalla committee chairmen delivering special lectures to community gatherings in which they actively discouraged worshipping in mosques. Many sources report that the atmosphere among the Muslim community has improved, with many mosques overflowing into the streets for lack of space during Friday prayer. The Government, while controlling the imams' message and monitoring mosque activities closely, has loosened its grip on those whose appearance or behavior suggests they are observant Muslims, allowing individuals to practice their faith within the confines of a controlled environment. Nevertheless, there is an apparent reluctance to appear overly observant, as hardly any young men attending Friday prayers are bearded.
Unlike during the weeks immediately following the July 2004 terrorist attacks, when Muslim women reported feeling unease about wearing the hijab and several female students were reportedly suspended from Tashkent's Pedagogical University for wearing it, there were no reports of women feeling uncomfortable about doing so during the reporting period. Nevertheless, there were credible reports that some students were prohibited from wearing headscarves at schools.
The Government states that it does not consider repression of persons suspected of extremism to be a matter of religious freedom, but of preventing armed resistance to the Government. Contrary to the previous reporting period, however, there were few reports that authorities were highly suspicious of those with more religiously observant behavior than average, such as frequent mosque attendance, bearded men, and veiled women. Nevertheless, reports suggest that law enforcement and national security officers actively monitored and reported on mosque activities and those of worshippers.
Some mosques continued to have difficulty registering. The Panjera mosque in Navoi, where approximately 500 persons meet for prayer on feast days, has been trying unsuccessfully for 7 years to register, as have several mosques in the southern and eastern Ferghana Valley, despite having the required number of congregants to register. Worshipers of the locally funded Tuman mosque in Akhunbabayev District of Ferghana continued to function after court-enforced registration in early 2004.
In Margilan, Ferghana Province, local government authorities appropriated and converted a madrassah built through private community contributions into a medical training facility, preventing its scheduled fall 2005 opening. Thus, the Government has prevented Ferghana Province, one of Uzbekistan's most populous and observantly Muslim areas, from having a madrassah to train imams. Similarly, the Government appropriated and converted a madrassah in Andijon into a hospital, despite petitions in 2004 by community members to have it reopened.
On October 20, 2005, authorities denied the pastor of Bethany Baptist Church in the Mirzo-Ulugbek district of Tashkent an additional appeal to keep his church open. This decision prolongs the local pastor's five-year quest to register the church.
On September 8, 2005, the economic court of Karakalpakstan rejected an appeal by the Emmanuel Church of Nukus to overturn the May 2005 MOJ decision to close the church, citing among other reasons, a charge that church members promoted Christianity to children without their parents' permission. Out of approximately twenty Protestant churches that had operated in the region, this was the last to close. Local authorities continued to pressure Baptist churches associated with the International Council of Churches of Evangelical Christians/Baptists, a denomination that rejects registration on principle, with demands to register their congregations. Forum 18 reported that on April 12, 2006, police and National Security Service (NSS) officials raided a service of Council Baptists at a member's home in the town of Kuvasai in Ferghana Province. Police reportedly interrogated three congregants, and on May 5, 2006, an Administrative Commission fined one congregant $8 (9,400 soum) for hosting the service in her home. On May 7, 2006, police and NSS officers reportedly returned to raid the church's Sunday service, recorded the names of those present, and threatened members with legal consequences if they did not register.
The International Church of Tashkent, a Protestant nondenominational church that ministers exclusively to Tashkent's international community, has tried unsuccessfully to obtain registration, but now holds services in an officially registered Baptist church. The MOJ and the CRA have signaled a willingness to assist the International Church, but note that the law requires at least 100 congregants be citizens of Uzbekistan. The International Church meets regularly, without obstruction. However, the Government subjects many of its members to visa and accreditation delays.
Local authorities have continued to block the registration of evangelical Christian congregations, particularly those that attempt to minister to ethnic Uzbeks. In January 2005, congregants of the Pentecostal Church in Chirchik reported that the Department of Justice in Tashkent Region denied their church's registration application because of "grammatical errors in the Uzbek text of their charter." Authorities revoked without explanation the registration of a Baptist congregation in 2003; the last successful Baptist registration occurred in 1999. Despite a number of international appeals and formal legal appeals, the Mir (Peace) Church of Nukus, the Hushkhabar Church in Guliston, the Pentecostal Church in Andijon, and the Baptist Church in Gazalkent remained unregistered, apparently because they have ethnic Uzbek members. Church leaders reported that officials cite a multitude of reasons for refusing to register them, ranging from claims of falsified congregation lists to problems certifying addresses, "technicalities," and improper certification by fire inspectors, sanitation workers, and epidemiologists.
continues
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11.10.2005
Russian Intelligence, the Arab Sheikhs, Afghanistan...
Pavel Simonov, Ulugbek Juraev, AIA
Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan (photo: www.realafghan.com)
Sardar Mohammad
Daud Khan
Russian Intelligence tried to overthrow the legitimate Afghani government with the assistance of an influential Arab sheikh from one of the monarchies of the Persian Gulf. The International Russian-speaking RTVi channel (with its central office in New York) has shown the video recording of the recruitment of the Arab sheikh by a KGB agent. Judging from the interior design on the video, the meeting took place in a hotel. The representative of the KGB offered his quarry "Russian women and lots of money". In exchange the Arab sheikh would be required to assist in the overthrow of Afghani president, Muhammad Daud. It is clear from the conversation that it took place during the period from June 1975 to April 1978. (The Islamic revolt in Pandsher, which occurred in June 1975 is mentioned in the conversation, and in April 1978 Daud was overthrown). Judging by the quality of the recording, it was made by a candid camera. The representative of the KGB and the Arab sheikh spoke English. Other than these two, one of the women offered to the sheikh appeared for less than a minute on the screen. Following was a comment from off screen, “this videocassette from the KGB archives was purchased on the black market by interested persons.
The Unexpected Revolution
During the last years of Muhammad Daud's rule, (1973-78), Moscow was watching him with growing suspicion . This was caused by his rapprochement with the USA and actions against the left opposition. At the same time, there was no known documentation certifying Soviet participation in preparation of a coup d'etat against the Afghani President in the spring of 1978. (The Marxist regime, which came to power, named this event "The Saur Revolution".)
In this connection the testimony of General-Major, Alexander Liahovsky, who at the end of the eighties was the closest assistant to the commander of the Soviet armies in Afghanistan, and today is considered one of the best experts on the history of Soviet expansion into this country, is typical enough. In his fundamental book "The Tragedy and Valour of Afghanistan" (1995,) he notes : "For the Soviet representatives in Kabul, and also for our secret services the military coup d'etat on April 27, 1978 was a "bolt from the blue", they simply "overslept" it. The heads of the People's democratic party of Afghanistan (a party of radical-Marxist orientation, which seized power in Kabul) hid the plans on overthrowing Daud from the Soviet side and, of course, did not consult on these questions for they were sure that Moscow would see their intentions negatively". Moreover, in the opinion of many statesmen of the USSR of that period, the overthrow of Daud contradicted the strategic interests of Moscow. Because of the revolution, Afghanistan instantly turned from a friendly neighbor of the Soviet Union, into the center of regional instability.
Valentin Varenikov (during the intervention he was the Deputy Chief of the General Staff) claims: "Being for ten years Prime Minister under the king, Daud conducted a remarkable foreign policy with the Soviet Union. Naturally, when he came to power, our management did not have the slightest reason to overthrow him. On the contrary, we were extremely interested in strengthening his authority".
Alexander Liahovsky (General-Major in reserve) notes: "Muhammad Daud repeatedly visited the Soviet Union. Under his initiative the Afghani army began to receive Soviet arms and combat equipment, and also we helped in preparation of the national armed forces".
Vladimir Kriuchkov (during the intervention he supervised the Foreign Intelligence of the KGB) notes : "Until April 1978, i.e. up to the Saur revolution, it seems that nothing could foretell any complications in the Soviet-Afghani attitudes. And suddenly in the neighboring country, with which we had a common long land border, the extremist left radicals came to power... Instead of a traditionally friendly state to the Soviet Union, on our southern flank the prospect loomed of the appearance of an extremely dangerous, hostile neighbor to us ..."
Oleg Grinevsky (at the beginning of the eighties he headed a department of the Middle East in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the USSR): "Gromyko (the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR in 1957-85) grumbled: - Everything was going so smoothly... The neighbor was so good, obedient, well, exactly like Finland but on the south. And what do we have to anticipate from these madmen?"
Judging from the testimonies of the military, intelligence and political participants of the Soviet intervention, it is possible to draw the conclusion that there are two versions: either the videocassette aired by the RTVi is forged, or the KGB conducted its own game, caring little about the state interests of the USSR.
The Kremlin Against the Intervention
Dmitry Ustinov
Dmitry Ustinov
The Russian experts, especially the ex-secret servicemen, just love to recollect the CIA's connections with mujahaddin during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. It ostensibly confirms the participation of the USA in the creation of the Taliban movement and the "Al-Qaeda" organization. However, the Russians prefer not to recall the active participation of the USSR and its satellites in the creation and financing of terrorist groups in Western Europe, in the Middle East, in Africa and Latin America. Moreover, the video recording aired by the RTVi could become testimony to Moscow's participation in the transformation of Afghanistan into an incubator for the terrorist number one and his associates. To answer a question on the probability of the KGB's participation in the overthrow of the first President of Afghanistan, we have to track the role of Soviet Intelligence in
Yuri Andropov
Yuri Andropov
the development of the Kremlin's Afghani policy in the year and a half after the coup d'etat.
Having completed the revolt in the capital, the left radicals were unable to gain control over the other parts of the country and, moreover, to remain in power for a long time. In Afghani politics they represented a marginal phenomenon and had no popular support. Besides, their political and economic program was an absolute Utopia in contrast to the conditions in Afghanistan. The only chance for the new owners of Kabul to survive was the massive support of Moscow. They immediately declared their orientation toward the Soviet Union and addressed it for help. Huge deliveries of raw materials, foodstuffs and military technical equipment started coming from the USSR to Afghanistan. However, the left radicals could do nothing with the new tanks and helicopters. The overwhelming majority of the population was hostile towards them; they did not trust the army (even the officers who received military education in the USSR). Therefore, the leaders of the new regime started to press for direct Soviet participation in suppression of the opposition, which gained in strength. According to Alexander Liahovsky: "the Afghani rulers tried to involve the
Boris Ponomorev
Boris Ponomorev
Soviet Union directly into the solving of the internal problems of the country". In March 1979 in Herat - the largest city in Western Afghanistan, mass revolt started. The heads of Kabul's regime used this event as a reason to convince Moscow that without the Soviet armies intervention into Afghanistan, the "Saur revolution” will be lost".
At that time all internal and foreign policy of the USSR was determined by just four people : the chief of the KGB, Yuri Andropov, Minister of Defence, Dmitry Ustinov, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Andrey Gromyko and the head of the international department of the Central Committee of the ruling communist party, Boris Ponomarev. From March 1979, the Afghani politics of Moscow was exclusively under their control.
Andrey Gromyko
Andrey Gromyko
Each one of these four, while forming his position relied on the estimations and recommendations of assistants. The representatives of the highest military command and diplomats were categorically against the participation in military actions in Afghanistan. The head of the KGB's Foreign Intelligence, abovementioned Vladimir Kriuchkov, and the party's Central Committee representatives held the opposite opinion. Finally, during the discussions in March, "the four" reached an unequivocal decision "to refuse moving Soviet military units to Afghanistan". The head of the KGB Yuri Andropov, declared on March 19: "I think that we cannot take the decision of sending our armies. To bring armies into action means to struggle against people, to oppress people, to shoot people. We shall look like aggressors... " (Boris Gromov). However, very soon the general opinion of "the four" began to change. As a consequence, in December 1979 the intrusion of the Soviet armies into Afghanistan started. It took the KGB just eight months to force powerful masters of a huge empire essentially to change their position...
Read in the next part:
The Afghani war has allowed the spies to conquer Russia
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18.10.2005
The Afghani Intrigue of the Russian Intelligence
Pavel Simonov, Ulugbek Juraev, AIA
Previous article
Representatives of the Soviet Intelligence purposefully supplied the Kremlin with disinformation on situation in Afghanistan. They tried to provoke Moscow to a large-scale military campaign. Huge human and economical losses should have been the last blow on the ruling regime. The crash of the state systems could have caused only deep economic crisis, confrontations inside the country, revelry of criminality...
The Main Provocateur
From the beginning of May 1979 recommendations to send to the Afghani capital units of Army, special services or of the Ministry of Internal Affairs started coming to the Kremlin from the Soviet representatives in Kabul. As a rule, the
The chief of Foreign Intelligence of the KGB Vladimir Kriuchkov
authors of such recommendations were acting simultaneously as representatives of several Ministries, but the signature of one of them appeared invariable. It was the signature of the main KGB representative in Kabul, General-Lieutenant Boris Ivanov. He enjoyed almost unlimited authority in the Soviet colony. First of all, the Kremlin listened to his opinion much more, rather than to the estimations of military specialists or diplomats that worked in Afghanistan. Secondly, being the representative of the powerful KGB Ivanov could achieve prescheduled return to the USSR of any member of the Soviet staff, with inevitable negative consequences for that person. Besides, the General-Lieutenant enjoyed a complete support of the chief of Foreign Intelligence of the KGB Vladimir Kriuchkov, who was the supporter of increasing of the Soviet military presence at Afghanistan.
Using his exclusive position, Boris Ivanov initiated composing of the "collective" addresses which were sent to the Kremlin claiming the need for moving the Soviet units to Afghanistan. It is indicative that these documents were signed even by those who adhered to absolutely opposite point of view (as, for example, Lev Gorelov – the chief Soviet military adviser in Kabul.) Moreover, from the memoirs of General-Major Vasili Zaplatin (he was an adviser to the head of the Central political department of the Afghani army) follows that the messages of the main representative of KGB and his assistants on situation in Afghanistan was of tendentious character. They distorted the real situation with the purpose to convince the Kremlin in the necessity of sending the Soviet troops to Afghanistan. "As a rule, at closer analysis and detailed check, it was seen, that the data of the KGB, to put it mildly, mismatch the reality" - Boris Gromov (the last commander of the Soviet forces in Afghanistan, "The Limited Contingent") added.
In the summer of 1979 it became obvious, that Hafizullah Amin, the closest colleague of the first head of the pro-Soviet regime Nur Muhammad Taraki, strived by any means to seize power. The KGB used the struggle inside the Afghani ruling clique as even more convincing pretext for the beginning of the Soviet intervention.
Compromising Materials on the President
Using the biographic dossier of Amin, Boris Ivanov and his assistants fabricated "confidential materials" on his close relations with the American intelligence. For the first time the main representative of the KGB showed them to General-Colonel of the General Staff of the Soviet army Viktor Merimsky in August 1979. He recollected in his book: "The main point was that Amin during his studies in the USA was a member of the leadership of the Afghani students association, and the CIA put an eye on him.
Hafizullah Amin
Hafizullah Amin
The assumption was that he might have been recruited. The attention was focused on Amin's aspiring to gain individual authority and counts on the support of the USA."
In September, 1979 the first head of the pro-Soviet regime was killed. Hafizullah Amin seized the rule in Kabul. Boris Ivanov immediately declared that if the situation is not going to change, Afghanistan will turn into the regional jumping-off place of anti-Soviet activity of Washington and Beijing - the main strategic opponents of Moscow. According to Alexander Liahovsky (the assistant to the commander of the Soviet armies in Afghanistan, a book "The Tragedy and Valour of Afghanistan"): "a special concern of the members of Political bureau of the CPSU (the supreme Soviet leadership) was caused by the data coming through the KGB channels in October - November 1979 claiming that Amin considers an opportunity of certain reorientation of the policy towards the USA and China". Oleg Grinevsky (the head of the department of the Middle East in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, a book "The Secrets of the Soviet Diplomacy",) adds: "From the very beginning the KGB purposefully and consistently tried to discredit Amin, emphasizing on each and every opportunity that he is the American spy. But the Soviet military and diplomats in Kabul concerned to this rather guardedly, seeing no sufficient bases for such charges". Therefore, using almost unlimited opportunities, in November - beginning of December, 1979, Ivanov achieved removal from Kabul to Moscow of the main representatives of the party, army, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The officers and officials who replaced them understood the Afghani affairs extremely poorly and without any objections signed the "collective references" made up by Ivanov. He actually monopolized source of the information on situation in Afghanistan, which came to the chief of the KGB Andropov and other members of the Soviet supreme leadership.
Further, the messages coming from Kabul became more and more hysterical. Their essence was invariable: "it is necessary to outstrip the Americans, or else they will enter there first and will seize Afghanistan" (Oleg Grinevsky). As a consequence, Ivanov together with Kriuchkov finally managed to convince the chief of the KGB of the necessity to send armies to Afghanistan. "He totally trusted the sources of the information, which promoted creation of a certain view on the situation in this country and the possible ways of solving the problem" –Liahovsky marks. "Andropov followed the lead of his apparatus" - Grinevsky adds.
Disinformation for the Kremlin
The Agreement between the USSR and a puppet regime of Afghanistan
The Agreement between the USSR and a puppet regime of Afghanistan signed on December, 5 1978, before the beginning of the Soviet intervention
During the autumn of 1979 the chief of the KGB became a key figure in formation of the Kremlin's policy on Afghanistan.
Minister of Defense and the head of the international department of the Central Committee of the party agreed with him in everything. The Minister of Foreign Affairs in general withdrawn from participation in the discussions on this issue. The chief of the Soviet secret service, as well as the other members of the Soviet supreme leadership already got used with an idea on inevitability of the military campaign. It was necessary to choose only the time and a suitable pretext to activate the state system, having aimed it on the intervention against the southern neighbor.
"At the beginning of December, 1979 Andropov sent to Brezhnev (the head of the USSR at that time) a note, which the trigger of the intervention to Afghanistan...
The note was written as a result of the telegram of the main representative of KGB in Kabul Ivanov in which he informed, that Amin is the agent of CIA; he secretly meets at country restaurants the American Charge d'Affaires, he spins a plot - discusses the plan of the US intervention to Afghanistan. The American vessels with troops already came nearer to the coast of Pakistan. The landing force will proceed to Afghanistan. There is an advance party already sitting near Jelalabad (the city in the Eastern Afghanistan)..." (Oleg Grinevsky)
The further course of events was rather laconically described by Alexander Mayorov (in 1980-1981 the main Soviet adviser of the Afghani army): "Andropov insisted at the Political bureau (the supreme supervising body of the USSR) - to rescue the April revolution and to guarantee that Afghanistan will go by a socialist way of development, it is necessary to remove the fascist Amin from power and to send the Soviet armies to Afghanistan. The Political bureau hesitated; the General Staff of armed forces was against. But omnipotent by that time Andropov insisted".
The sense of the intrigue launched and successfully realized by the high-ranking representatives of the KGB was extremely clearly specified by Boris Gromov: "The military command was very cautious concerning the information coming from the KGB employees. They quite often were guided only by the own interests..."
Kabul Under the KGB's Rule
Babrak Karmal drinking Russian vodka
Babrak Karmal
drinking Russian vodka
The middle and the top echelons of the KGB, while provoking military campaign in Afghanistan, were guided both by the short-term, and the long-term interests. Such a conclusion comes from a careful retrospective review of the history of the Soviet intervention, and of the events in the USSR that followed. Short-term interests of the KGB are absolutely clear.
At the end of December 1979 the commandos of the KGB eliminated "the American agent" Hafizullah Amin ("In spite of the fact that he studied in the USA, Amin had no pro-American feelings... Amin undertook very few efforts to gain trust of the USA" - the Charge d'Affaires of the USA in Kabul at that time Bruce Amstutz wrote). Under the initiative of the KGB Babrak Karmal became the new Afghani ruler. Later Moscow became disappointed with him. In the spring of 1986 Vladimir Kriuchkov, by then already the head of the KGB, personally persuaded Karmal to refuse the authority. Besides, under the initiative of the Soviet secret service, his place occupied Muhammad Najibullah - the head of the Afghani analogue of the KGB. Accordingly, from 1979 up to at least 1989 (when the Soviet armies left Afghanistan) the KGB actually supervised the Kabul regime. This strengthened positions of this secret service in the system of the government, fixing its superiority over military and diplomats even more. About the long term interests of the initiators of the Afghani campaign we may judge by the key events of political life of the USSR and Russia for the last 30 years.
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23.10.2005
KGB Back at Power: The Spies' Coup in Russia
Pavel Simonov, Ulugbek Juraev, AIA
The KGB chief Yuri Andropov
The KGB chief
Yuri Andropov
A total collapse of the state systems could cause not only a deep economic crisis, but confrontations inside the country, and an outbreak of criminality. It was easy to predict that the sufferings of ordinary people would create a favorable atmosphere for the emergence of a "Savior". As it was planned, he would be the representative of all the Russian Intelligence...
The KGB's Fears
Under the Soviet regime, only the representatives of the KGB leadership and other leaders of the ruling communist party had access to complete information on the situation in the USSR and other countries of the Warsaw bloc. On the basis of data collected by the KGB, by the end of the seventies it finally became clear that the Soviet state system had completely exhausted itself. "Some people in Intelligence dared to think differently, but very few people dared to speak of this" - the former officer of the KGB, Vladimir Putin, recollected at about that time (a book "From the First Person", 2000).
The absolute bankruptcy of the Soviet regime was especially felt in the field of economics. The USSR was not simply in a condition of deep stagnation, but already on the verge of the deepest economic crisis. The crisis was temporarily stalled only due to huge stocks of natural resources, mainly oil and gas. It was not difficult for analysts of the KGB to realize that without real transformations in the economy, the situation would promptly worsen. Further impoverishment of the population sooner or later threatened a social explosion.
Together with carefully covered up ethnic conflicts it could become the beginning of the collapse of the Soviet state.
As for the KGB officers, such a script promised the most negative consequences for them. First of all they were the supreme social caste of Soviet society; they had every possible material privilege. A crash of the USSR would instantly deprive them of all this. Secondly, possessing powerful services of intelligence and counterespionage, secret political police, divisions of commandos and units of protection for the higher-ranking people of the state, and also its own troops, the KGB was the main guarantor of the security and stability of the regime.
The KGB was the one organization busy with eliminating the regime's political opponents, and of those simply dissatisfied with it. Accordingly, the heads of this secret service were afraid that disorder in the USSR would end up with their prosecution and punishment. The KGB chief, Yuri Andropov, and his deputy, the head of Foreign Intelligence, Vladimir Kriuchkov, had no doubt that the fall of Soviet authority would end up sadly for them and their subordinates. In autumn of 1956, during the popular uprising in Hungary, Andropov was the ambassador of the USSR in Budapest, and Kriuchkov was his assistant. Even almost half a century later, the latter recollected in his memoirs with horror how "the true hunting down of communists and employees of the security service" started there. Further, being afraid of the collapse of the Warsaw bloc, and of the USSR after it, Andropov initiated a severe suppression of the popular uprising in Czechoslovakia in the summer of 1968. He put forward the idea of using Soviet armies against the independent trade union "Solidarity" in Poland in 1980.
The KGB Head Comes to Power
Yuri Andropov realized that the decaying, corrupt leadership of the communist party was not capable of saving the country from this crisis. According to the ex-deputy chief of the KGB, Fillip Bobkov, his former chief lived by the principle "it is not sufficient to know, it is necessary to react" (the Russian edition "Who’s Who", ¹ 1, 2004). In the autumn of 1982 he decided to try to rescue the USSR by himself. In November 1982 Andropov became the head of the state. The employees of the KGB, almost idolizing their boss, totally supported him. "He hastened to find new means to overcome true existing social contradictions," the present director of the FSB, Nikolay Patrushev, recollects (the Russian newspaper "Rossiyskaya Gazeta," June 2004). "He did not have enough time" – Bobkov adds (the Russian edition "Who’s Who", ¹ 1, 2004). Only a year after coming to power, the new Soviet leader was very ill and was placed in the hospital, where he died several months later. Bobkov, as well as his many former colleagues up to now asserts, "Andropov provided an opportunity for the country. There would be no collapse of the USSR if he had remained alive" (Ukraine.info, September 2005).
Judging from available information, by the end of the seventies some of the supreme officers of the KGB as, for example, the head of the "residentura" in Kabul, nevertheless had no hope for an opportunity to preserve the Communist regime. Some of them did not want it to meaningfully survive. It was already noted that the KGB served as the guarantor of the security and stability of the Soviet authority. This authority consisted of functionaries of the Communist party. Though the employees of the KGB had no right to conduct shadowing of the party heads in the cities, regions and at the state level, different information on them was coming through in huge amounts from KGB agents. On this basis, events on a horrifying scale of moral degradation and corruption of activists of the party were seen. Despite it, authority remained in their hands. It caused growing irritation of the supreme officers of the KGB, who, in their abilities, intelligence and discipline greatly surpassed the Communist functionaries.
Vladimir Kriuchkov, a long-term assistant of Andropov and his successor in the post of head of the KGB, was not at all suited to occupy the post of head of state. He did not possess the political weight of his former chief. The greater part of Kriuchkov's career passed in the shadow of Andropov, in bureaucratic work. He could not think and operate independently and globally.
The representative of the conservative wing in the party's leadership became the new head of the USSR, and he was categorically against any transformations. "I had a sensation then that the country was gone. It became clear that the Union was sick. It was a fatal, incurable illness - paralysis. The paralysis of authority," – the successor of Andropov in the post of chief of the secret service and head of the state, Vladimir Putin would write later (a book "From the First Person", 2000).
The KGB Begins "Perestroika"
In 1984 many representatives of the middle and top echelons in the leadership of the KGB understood that hopes were empty for the coming of someone who might save the "fatally ill patient" - the Soviet Union. In the beginning of 1985, with the secret assistance of the KGB, the USSR was headed by a fellow countryman, close comrade, and protégé of Andropov - Michael Gorbachev. He and several of his colleagues were obligated exclusively to the former chief of the KGB for their prompt ascent in the hierarchy of the party in power. Exactly 20 years after becoming the head of the USSR (March 2005), in an interview in the Russian edition "Rodnaya Gazeta", Gorbachev suddenly and unexpectedly declared: "I shall say what I've never said before..." He told about Andropov's secret will which had been handed over to the Supreme Soviet heads in December 1983, two months prior to his death. It was written there that the ex-chief of KGB had selected Michael Gorbachev to be his successor to the post of head of the state.
A team of considerably younger party functionaries from the peripheral areas, who arrived in Moscow with Andropov's help, started the well-known "Reorganization" – "Perestroyka" soon after his death. Subsequently, due to Vladimir Kriuchkov's diligence, a myth started circulating that the "Reorganization" was a result of "subversive activities" of the western secret services.
In June 1991 he publicly declared that 14 years ago such plans of the CIA were already known. Kriuchkov emphasized that the initiators of "Perestroika" were American "agents of influence." However, from the moment of Gorbachev's arrival to power he held the post of first deputy chief of the KGB, and three years later became its chairman. Accordingly, Kriuchkov not only possessed all the opportunities and powers, but also was obliged to struggle with dangerous enemy agents.
However, he did not bother to investigate their activity, and during all of "Perestroika", he obediently carried out the assignments of its official initiator Michael Gorbachev.
The "Perestroika" was a series of unprecedented political and economic transformations of the USSR, which were carried out without taking into account local realities, without a precise plan or a clear ultimate goal. It promoted an even greater deterioration of the economic situation, a weakening of central authority, the loss of Moscow's control over the periphery, and the growth of nationalistic and separatist moods in the republics. Fertile conditions for prompt development of all these processes were already prepared by the time of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan. The huge assistance rendered to the puppet Kabul regime and huge expenses for conducting military maneuvers finally undermined the Soviet economy. The sanctions of the West actively supported by Saudi Arabia played a significant role in this, (in particular expressed by an artificial reduction of oil prices, which was the main source of income for the Soviet treasury). Besides, owing to the war in Afghanistan, the influence of the Islamic world on the Muslim republics of Central Asia increased considerably. The peak of religious, nationalistic and separatist moods there, and, especially in the Ferghana valley, had essentially sped up the collapse of the USSR. Simultaneously, the intervention against Afghanistan promoted the discrediting of the authorities in the opinion of the Soviet population. All this added to the process of disintegration of the state system caused by "Perestroika" and led to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Performing the Main Task
For the first five years after the collapse of the Soviet Union its successor - Russia suffered from almost total ruin of economy, revelry of criminality, bloody conflicts on Caucasus. Gradually, together with proceeding social and economical crisis, the war in the Chechen Republic
Putin (L) and Yeltzin
Putin (L) and Yeltzin
became the main internal problem of the state. In 1997 the military actions ended with signing of peace agreement, stabilization of economy started, the crime rate began lower. However, further influenced by the crisis in Southeast Asia Russia again suffered from sharp economic recession. Against this background, in the autumn of 1998, a former non-staff assistant of Andropov, the ex-head of Foreign Intelligence, Eugeny Primakov, headed the government. The following spring the former chief of FSB (main successor of the KGB), Sergey Stepashin, replaced him. In parallel, representatives of the democratic camp had almost disappeared from governmental structures; the foreign policy of the state was turning back to the traditional Soviet course. In the autumn of 1999, a former officer of the KGB and ex-director of FSB, Vladimir Putin, became the new head of the cabinet. The war in the Chechen Republic renewed. In the spring of 2000, Putin officially became the President. Further, the process of strengthening the central authority and rigid submission to it in all the spheres of life of the state began. Any forces not under the Kremlin's control, such as independent mass-media and representatives of large private businesses were neutralized by various methods. Simultaneously, Moscow returned to an imperial foreign policy, with insignificant updating to modern realities. On this background it finally became clear that the process, which was started more than two decades ago by Yuri Andropov and his closest assistants in KGB, actually had come to an end.
Re-capturing Authority
Owing to the Afghani intervention and the parallel "Perestroika", the crash of the USSR took place. The Communist party was deprived of the monopoly on authority. The huge financial reserves of the party turned out to be under the control of a group of the supreme officers of several divisions of the KGB. Earlier this money was controlled by the general party. The members of the Central committee of the Communist party, who knew about this died under strange circumstances, one by one (accidents, suicides, falling from windows, heart attacks, etc.) At the same time, representatives of other divisions of the KGB took out archives of the secret police of the former Soviet republics containing compromising materials on the political, military and economic elite of the new independent states. Later, the most qualified and skilled officers of the republican branches of the KGB transferred to Moscow. With the help of former colleagues and chiefs they were arrayed in Russia along with the opening of private companies and banks, and later appeared in various supervisory posts in secret services in regional and municipal administrations.
Vast numbers of the ex-officers of the KGB went into Russia's civil labour market in 1991-93. They continued to be registered as "a working reserve" of this service, receiving salary and periodically carrying out tasks for their former heads. In the civilian market the former KGB men had a clear advantage. They had a corporate consciousness, common views, high self-discipline, professional skills, higher education, foreign languages, and connections in various state structures. Besides, the former employees of the Foreign Intelligence of the KGB had experience living in a western society.
The ex-officers of the secret police and counterespionage possessed extensive information on activists of the democratic movement who had temporarily come into authority and on newly appeared heavyweight businessmen. And most importantly, the narrow circle of former officers of the KGB supervised huge financial assets – leftovers of the inheritance from Soviet times. Based on this money, commercial and bank "empires" were created. For this purpose figureheads were used, who were KGB agents during the Soviet time, (mainly the young, talented, vigorous activists of the youth movement of the Communist party or skilled businessmen, who in the past were pursued for conducting private business).
Soon the ex-KGB men took an appreciable place in the Russian economy. Up to the middle of the Nineties there almost did not remain any the large company where there would be no former employees of the KGB in the management.
At the second half of the Nineties the penetration of ex-KGB into the state structures started.
Putin's inauguration as President of Russia in 2000
Putin's inauguration
as President of Russia in 2000
In 1997-98 the mass media began a systematic discrediting of the first Russian President, Boris Yeltsin. An image of a sick and incapacitated politician, who was falling under the control of his coterie, was actively created for him. It was emphasized that his confidants were guided by mercenary motives, or, being Jews by origin, meaningfully damaging the state interests of Russia.
On this background, acts of terrorism of Islamic mujahids from the Chechen Republic territory against the neighboring republics of the Northern Caucasus were sharply becoming frequent. The mass-media in a veiled form inspired the population, saying that President Yeltsin was not capable of putting an end to the terrorism and rescuing Russia from disorder (such as the USSR faced). As a consequence, the Russian myth about an "Ideal Tsar" was revived. It was based on the messianic beliefs of orthodox Christianity and the eternal hopes of people for a strong, fair and careful leader, free from the influence of corrupt officials.
In August 1999, Islamic armed formations intruded from the Chechen Republic into Daghestan. It became a pretext for the replacement of one ex-director of FSB to the post of Prime Minister by another ex-head of this service. Further, across Russia a series of mega-acts of terrorism occurred. The population was intimidated into hysteria. It was only necessary to propose a candidate who would be an "Ideal Tsar" in the upcoming presidential elections. This candidate was the new Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin. He "hastened" to rescue Russia even before the elections, having already given the order to start the next conquest of the Chechen Republic.
To start the Second Chechen War, the method of Soviet intervention against Afghanistan was used. In 1979 the "residentura" and the management of the KGB presented the Kremlin with "proofs" of preparation of the landing of armies of the opponent (Americans) on the southern borders of the USSR. In 1999 the head of the FSB had no weight in the Kremlin, such as the chief of the KGB once had. To justify the beginning of military actions in the Chechen Republic just one confidential report of intelligence was not enough. The enemy really landed on the southern borders of Russia. In 2000 as a result of a rivalry in the Chechen Republic of FSB and military intelligence GRU, it became known that at least some of the commanders of the mujahids in Daghestan campaign were... the agents of the FSB!
Furthermore, according to the Afghani script, a local puppet government became a support for the Russians (the truth was that this time, the Kremlin got luckier than in the case of Babrak Karmal or Doka Zavgaev - the Russian protégé during the First Chechen War). If the Afghani intervention promoted the deprivation of a monopoly for the Communists of their authority, the Second Chechen War permitted getting rid of the government of former functionaries of the Communist party and primarily of Boris Yeltsin. In March 2000 the ex-head of the FSB became the second President of Russia. He repeated the capture of authority, which was carried out twenty years ago by the ex-head of the KGB, Yuri Andropov. However Putin's advantage was not only because of his youth. As opposed to Andropov, he came to authority not alone, but accompanied by thousands of former colleagues and subordinates. The year 2000 became the year of the beginning of a mass "conscription" of former officers of the KGB into all the structures of authority, at national, regional and municipal levels. Today just among the highest-ranking people in the Russian leadership are the President, the Minister of Defense, the Minister of Internal Affairs and the Minister of Natural Resources, all ex KGB men.
And these men, headed by Putin, seem to be rebuilding the Soviet Empire as the most successful and prominent leader of the Soviet KGB - Yuri Andropov dreamed it to be.
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20.07.2005
Unknown History of Jihad
Michel Elbaz, AIA general coordinator
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Messages about the links of one of the main ideologists and leaders of jihad with the Russian secret services sound a bit strange. Could it be so that the pathways of the Kremlin's clandestine battel and the fanatic adherent of the most radical current in the Islamic fundamentalism intersected in some way? And it is not at all clear what sense does it makes for the Russian secret services to deal with one of the most odious personage in modern times. To get answers to these, and many other questions, one must attentively examine some of the pages in the history of the 20th century…
Shadow of the Great Game
Incidentally or not, but the Russian adventures of Ayman al-Zawahiri amazingly coincide in their timing with the activization of the USA in Central Asia. Few days before the date, when al-Zawahiri left Daghestani jail due to the mercy of FSB, Turkmen President Saparmurad Niiazov
Portrait of Saparmurad Niiazov, Ashkhabad, Sept, 1997 (photo: Corbis)
Portrait of Saparmurad Niiazov, Ashkhabad,
Sept, 1997
put his signature under the protocol on "concluding creation of a consortium for laying the gas pipeline via Afghanistan, till the 1st of October, this year". Thus, the chances grew considerably for the realization of a grandiose project for transportation of the Central Asian energy carriers via Afghanistan to the Pakistani Indian Ocean ports. At the first stage, the pipeline was supposed to deliver gas from Turkmenistan. Later on, Uzbekistan was expected to join the project. The key role in realization of this plan was played by the American company UNOCAL International Energy Ventures Ltd. In case of success, Washington's influence in the former Soviet republics of Central Asia would have multiplied.
Moreover, the states of this region would have got an opportunity to finally end their dependence of Moscow. Until the export of their energy carriers was performed through Russia, the Kremlin had a powerful gear of pressure over its former satellites.
As soon as, in the early 1990s, the idea of this pipeline emerged, the Americans and their Pakistani partners agreed that its construction would be possible only after termination of the internecine war in Afghanistan. After the Talibs appeared, it seemed that it is them, who will
Taliban troops (photo: Corbis)
Taliban troops
bring their country the long-awaited stability. However, regardless of their military success, to the North of Kabul the fights never ceased. At the end of 1997, the USA came forward with the initiative of negotiations between the Talibs and the Northern Alliance. In November, UNOCAL company organized the visit to Washington of a high-ranking Talibs' delegation. During the meetings with them, the issue of pipeline construction had been discussed, as well as the question of future internal Afghani negotiations. It is after the return of this delegation to Kandahar that al-Zawahiri began to prepare the terrorist attacks on the American embassies in Africa. However, there was still more than half a year left until the realization of his plan. And for the moment, the events were unfolding according to the American scenario.
Few months after Talibs' visit to Washington, secret talks began between them and the representatives of the Northern Alliance. Furthermore, the Central Asian capitals were visited by Yan Kalitsky (White House adviser for the CIS states), and Robert G. Card (US Deputy Minister
Robert G. Card
Robert G. Card
of Energy). Following this, the Turkmen President came to Washington. On the 23rd of April, there was a meeting between the two leaders. As soon as the month of May, the American representative in the UN, Bill Richardson, arrived in Kabul. With his direct participation, and with the assistance from the Pakistanis, the backstage contacts between the Talibs and their adversaries were activated. They continued during the next two months, and were supposed to end by signing a cease-fire approximately till the end of August. It was expected that after this a national unity government would be created, naturally opening a way to construction of the gas pipeline.
Powerful blasts in the morning of August, the 7th, in Nairobi and Dar As-Salam destroyed all these plans. As it had to be expected, Washington's reaction followed soon after. On the 20th of August, the Pentagon delivered a missile attack on the Afghani territory. Few days later, Talibs' envoy in the UAE, Mohammed Madani declared: "After these totally unjustified missile strikes, we are in the state of war with the USA".
American diplomats and the representatives of UNOCAL had vanished from
President of Russia V. Putin (l), Political leader of Northern Alliance B. Rabbani (c), and President of Tajikistan I. Rahmonov
President of Russia V. Putin (L),
Political leader of
Northern Alliance B. Rabbani (C),
and President of Tajikistan I. Rahmonov
Afghanistan. Further work on the gas pipeline project became prospectless. Negotiating process terminated. Getting unspoken support from Tajikistan and Russia, the troops of Ahmad Shah Massoud made an effort to take the offensive. Although the latter had been successfully beaten off by the Talibs, the threat to Russian interests in the region passed away…
Suspicious coincidence
On the 18th of September, 1981, the Soviet official daily Pravda published the statement by the USSR
Anwar Sadat make a speech in Israeli Parliament, Nov, 1977
Anwar Sadat's speech
in Israeli Parliament, Nov, 1977
Ministry of Foreign Affairs as to the aggravation of the relations with Egypt. In the 1950s – 1960s, this Arab country was Kremlin's main strategic partner in the Middle East. The situation had changed after the death of the President Nasser, and Anwar Sadat's coming into power in autumn, 1970. Step by step Moscow had lost all of its influence over Cairo. In the summer, 1972, Egyptian leader demanded a withdrawal of the thousands of Soviet troops from the country. The following year, after the war with Israel, Sadat made his final choice, when he agreed to negotiate with his adversary under the US aegis.
Sadat assassination, Oct, 1981
Sadat assassination, Oct, 1981
This dialogue finished with signing the Camp David agreements. Egypt's rapprochement with the USA, and the peace agreement with Israel caused Kremlin's fury. Moscow finally lost its most important outpost in the Middle East. As a result, its positions in the region had been considerably weakened. Hereafter, the Soviet Union began to support almost openly the adversaries of Sadat in the Arab world.
This made the relations between the two countries even more complicated. In the first half of October, 1981, several officials of the Soviet embassy were accused of espionage by the Egyptian authorities. In response, Moscow recalled its ambassador from Cairo. The staff of Egypt's Defense Attaché Office was instructed to leave the USSR in seven days.
Publication in Pravda reflected the Kremlin's position concerning these events. Its last passage contained a hardly concealed threat towards the Egyptian regime: "The Soviet side leaves itself the right to undertake any necessary actions directed toward protection of its interests". After two and a half weeks, during military parade in Cairo, the President Sadat was killed by the officer, who was member of the radical Islamic organization Al-Jihad.
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18.07.2005
Russian Secret Services' Links With Al-Qaeda
Michel Elbaz, AIA general coordinator
The right hand of bin Laden, the Number Two in "Al-Qaeda" was trained at the secret base of the Russian secret services on Caucasus, the former Lieutenant Colonel of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) Alexander Litvinenko told the Polish Rzeczpospolita newspaper. Until the end of 1998, Litvinenko had served in several top-secret units that specialized in struggle against the terrorist and the mafia organizations.
Litvinenko claims that Ayman al-Zawahiri, who headed at that time the terrorist organization "Al-Jihad al-jadid" (it was formed from the Egyptian emigrants - activists of "Al-Jihad" and "Al-Jamaah al-Islamiyah"), in 1998 secretly stayed on the territory of Russia.
Alexander Litvinenko
Alexander Litvinenko
Up to the beginning of 1998, the process of merging of the two most radical Islamic organizations – "Al-Jihad al-jadid" and "Al-Qaeda" was completed. Al-Zawahiri became the second person in the hierarchy of the Osama bin Laden's "Al-Qaeda". In February 1998, being together in Afghanistan, they have created the World Islamic Front for Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders. However, at that time the Western secret services yet did not pay any special attention to al-Zawahiri's activity (several years prior to that, he freely visited the USA, and several countries of the Western Europe). The hunt for him, as well as for his fellows in arms began only after the explosions in the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, in August, 1998.
Only then the CIA analysts with the help of the Egyptian and Israeli colleagues managed to restore retrospectively a part al-Zawahiri's "activity schedule" for seven months prior to the attacks in East Africa. As it was discovered, since January till the end of July, 1998, he personally supervised the preparation for the terrorist attacks in Kenya and Tanzania.
Communiqu of the Islamic Army for Liberation of Kenya concerning the attack against the American embassy in Nairobi. August, 11, 1998.
Communiqué of the Islamic Front for Liberation of Sacred Places concerning the attack against the American embassy in Nairobi. August, 11, 1998.
For this purpose al-Zawahiri had left the territory of Afghanistan several times, in particular traveling to Sudan (in the middle of May, 1998). In parallel, he paid a lot of attention to strengthening "Al-Qaeda's" ties with secret services of Khartoum and Tehran.
Strange links
Although our American and Israeli sources do not know about al-Zawahiri staying in Russia, they have supplied us with some other interesting details. According to this information, in the first half of 1998, leaders of "Al-Qaeda" tried in every possible way to increase the level of coordination with terrorist groups worldwide. For this purpose the leaders of many such groups and cells of "Al-Qaeda" were invited to Afghanistan. Getting close to the large-scale attack on the USA, Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri have organized a "congress" of the adherents from all over the world. It took place on June, 24, at the capital of the talibs - Kandahar, in southern Afghanistan. Among the visitors were the representatives of the Balkan countries, the Middle East and Africa, and even of the radical Islamic groups from the republics of the former USSR. The Uzbeks and the Chechens were especially outstanding. Besides them, the Kazakhs, the Kyrgyz, the Dargins, the Lakks, and the Tatars had also secretly arrived to Kandahar. All of them came here separately, using sideways. A week prior to the beginning of the conference, a group of well-armed al-Zawahiri's assistants had left by jeeps in the direction of Herat. Following the instructions of their patron, in the town of Koh-i-Doshakh they met three unknown men that arrived from Russia via Iran. The latter called themselves by Muslim names, despite the fact that the two of them had a clearly Slavic appearance.
After their arrival in Kandahar, the 'guests' split up. One of the "Russians" was directly escorted to al-Zawahiri, and he did not participate in the conference.
Later on, this 'Russian guest', for almost six years disappeared out of the secret services' sight. He reappeared only in 2004. On February, 13, in the capital of Qatar the car of the ex-president of the Chechen Republic Zelimhan Yandarbiev was blown up.
Yandarbiev's car after the explosion
Yandarbiev's car after the explosion
Couple of days after his death, the authorities of the United Arab Emirates detained two Russian citizens. They turned to be the officers of the secret services. For the last three months they had been working in the embassy of Russia in Doha. After Yandarbiev's assassination these two Russians together with several other of their fellow citizens have hastily left Qatar. Having found out all this, investigators have carefully studied video and photo materials made by the counterspies during the last months on a course of supervision over the Russian diplomatic mission. The results were surprising not only for the Qatar's secret services, but also for their Western colleagues. It appeared that at the end of November, 2003, the embassy was visited by the above-mentioned "Russian", who met al-Zawahiri in the summer of 1998 in Kandahar. Although he had changed his appearance, the special computer software precisely established that he was the one, who had met bin Laden's right hand…
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AIA wrote earlier that no indication was given as to which country issued the warning to Russia of a possible terrorist plot to attack ground transport and one of the country's subway systems..
A source, close to security services, told the newspaper Vzglyad today that the warning of a possible attack had been received from an American secret service «and had been conveyed through [ Russia’s Health and Social Development Minister] Mikhail Zurabov».
Meanwhile Russian security experts have been expressing their doubts about the plausibility of the warning on threats of terrorism acts in Russia. In opinion of experts, the information, received from abroad, requires at least additional check. The experts even consider that the warning on possible acts of terrorism can be a political provocation, Vzglyad online edition writes.
Yuri Drozdov, ex-KGB Major-General, head of the Namakon analytical centre, says that “inflation of the situation is gainfully to the US and Britain". He claims that “all this reduces efficiency of Russia’s efforts in the foreign policy and in the CIS space. Our foreign partners should be more benevolent and more reasonable».
{Now, read the last paragraph again!!!
They must be democrats and in the U.S. Congress, as they can sure twist things.........granny}
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