Posted on 12/17/2006 4:03:30 PM PST by DAVEY CROCKETT
I had trouple opening this site, it is too big, so will take the post from another site that has part of the story.... I am glad that I cannot copy the poster , it is a close up of a behedded man....granny
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2007/01/religion_of_pea_1.html
* Updated: Wed, Jan 31 2007 2:28 AM
FBI Enablers:RELIGION OF PIECES"KILL ALL KIKES"
By Pamela Geller Oshry
[...] death threats from four diverse members of the "Religion of Peace," threatening to murder me and my family members, after raping and torturing me. And I take them very seriously.
Last week, one of them--Robert Mustaq John--pled guilty in the U.S. District for the Eastern District of New York, and the previous week, another--Wasil Burki--was indicted in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. I've posted the court documents associated with both, herein, as well as a reposting of their death threats.
Justice for Debbie's would be murderers? Good. But and there is a huge but. This is a particularly disturbing story not merely because of the disgusting, vile death threats. We have come to expect that from the savages of religion of peace. No, what is frightening, truly, is the reluctance and downright hostility the FBI exhibited in not pursuing these crimes by Islamists. Useful idiots over at the FBI Go over to Debbie Schlussel's blog here and check out the new antisemitism and just how far Islam has infiltrated the FBI and criminal justice system. hat tip Pastorius
It's important to note that justice for me did not come nearly as easily as it comes for American Muslims who get action from the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice, upon the whine about a hangnail. Mr. John sent his death threat to me almost 3.5 years ago. And I am only now finally getting justice, after going through a lot of baloney. I also believe that were it not for my having a loud and influential voice on this site and elsewhere in the media, nothing would have happened at all.
I compare this to the lightning speed that FBI agents and Justice Department lawyers moved in indicting and convicting two New York men who sent largely benign, anti-Muslim e-mails to extremist, hate-mongering Imam Hassan Qazwini, on the weekend of Nicholas Berg's televised beheading. Within a month of their e-mails, FBI agents raided both men's homes, and they were indicted shortly thereafter. Unlike my cases, they were not given plea deals. One of the men, Michael Bratisax, is a quadriplegic veteran in a wheelchair. (As I've written, the USDOJ has a special affirmative action prosecution program for Muslim "victims"--you and I aren't equal to them in "Justice"'s eyes.)
Muslimthreatmail3_1
The case should have been assigned to the FBI's civil rights agents in Detroit. It was, instead, sent to Ouellet, a lackluster agent in a satellite office.
Agent Ouellet told me that I remind him of his daughter who was in a University of Michigan sorority and who hated the Jewish sororities (for the record, I've never been in one). He elaborated on "the Jews" at Michigan. If I were Muslim, that conversation never would have taken place. Agent Ouellet went on to do nothing. After 6 months of him not investigating the case, he informed me that he gets death threats every day and I should just deal with it, hanging up on me. I guess he was just too busy writing his book about "right-wing" Michigan militias to actually investigate this death threat I took very seriously.
I complained to Agent Ouellet's supervisor, Bill Edwards. Agent Edwards was not much more help. He first told me that the e-mailer was a woman, that FBI agents in Brooklyn had "her" driver's license and located her. Eventually, "she" was a he, and in fact agents really hadn't seen the driver's license or done any work on the case until that point. Then, Agent Edwards called and told me that Robert Mustaq John "didn't really mean it," promised not to harm me, and could I just drop this and move on.
It goes on and on like this;
Agent Edwards also told me the case was being overseen by Assistant U.S. Attorney Sheldon Light. To date, I've never spoken with Light because he never returned a single phone call (he was too busy prosecuting the men who e-mailed Imam Qazwini). He transferred the case to Brooklyn, where it would languish for over three years, and that was the point.
I since learned that U.S. Attorney Stephen Murphy III a/k/a "Abu Porno" personally opposed prosecuting any death threats involving me and recused himself and his entire office from the cases for two reasons: 1) He didn't like what I wrote about him and his strange "liaisons" with the most extremist members of Detroit's Islamic community, including a "former" terrorist; and 2) it would get in the way of his office's relations with Muslims to actually prosecute them for hate crimes. He didn't want to relinquish his role as the Fed's chief Pander Bear to Islamists in town. Incredible.
There is more. Much more.
* Posted on: Wed, Jan 31 2007 1:08 AM
* Updated: Wed, Jan 31 2007 2:11 AM
[There are many hidden urls in this article]
Earlier info is at:
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2007/01/muslim_indicted.html
Good to know.......thank you.
Velveeta ran it thru a machine it is Post 3225, I was right to think that it had worthwhile info.
The original group poster, is one that I check for intelligent posters.
It would be interesting to read the book, he wrote, it would tell us what bioweapons the terrorists now have........
It might be interesting to google your translation, altho, in the past, I have thought in jihad messages, that they used words that would google, to where they wanted to go, while those who read the language, are saying " this word is not right".
Russia is very much in the news, the last few weeks.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1776927/posts
'Hoax Devices' Found At Several Boston Locations
boston channel ^ | today | live
Posted on 01/31/2007 12:04:44 PM PST by xcamel
BOSTON -- Four "hoax devices" were found at several Boston locations Wednesday, hours after officials detonated a suspicious package on an elevated structure above the Sullivan Square Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority station.
(Excerpt) Read more at thebostonchannel.com ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1776901/posts
American accused of trying to buy missile-system batteries for Iran
AP via Ynet ^ | Jan 31, 2007
Posted on 01/31/2007 11:16:04 AM PST by jdm
A man has been accused of trying to buy batteries that power Hawk surface-to-air missile systems for export to Iran, US Immigration officials said.
Robert Caldwell, 56, who owns an export brokerage company, was a middleman in a scheme to smuggle Hawk missile parts to Iran, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents alleged in an affidavit. (AP)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1776893/posts
IRAN: Khamenei Proposes Anti-U.S. Alliance to Russia
adn kronos international ^ | 29 Jan.2007
Posted on 01/31/2007 11:06:27 AM PST by Mount Athos
During a meeting with Russian foreign minister Igor Ivanov in Tehran, Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei was reported as calling on Monday for a cooperation between the two countries to halt US ambitions in the region. "The alliance between the Islamic Republic and the Russian Federation can stop US ambitions to conquer the region," Khamenei was quoted as saying by Iranian state television. Russia and Iran are close commercial allies and Tehran's Bushehr nuclear power plant is being built with Russian technology despite the staunch opposition of the US which fears Iran is trying to build atomic weapons.
"Our two countries can forge a tie able to influence the political and economic choices of the region and halt America's ambition to rule the world," Khamenei said, also suggesting the creation of a joint gas exporting group like Opec based on their command of the world's largest natural gas reserves.
Iran's gas reserves are estimated at over 940 trillion cubic feet while estimates on Russia's reserves range from 1680 trillion to 2360 trillion cubic feet.
World reserves are believed to be between 6100 trillion and 7000 trillion cubic feet.
The UN Security Council approved last month a resolution imposing sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme if it failed to suspend sensitive nuclear work by 21 February.
Russia, a veto-holding member of the Council, had repeatedly vetoed sanctions and contributed in softening punitive measures in the final resolution draft voted on 23 December.
[Led by a blond, from Iran?]
Saturday, January 27, 2007
"Now boys, let's not overreact"
Was an Iranian Military Unit Responsible for Killing 5 Americans in Karbala?, Bill Roggio asks at The Fourth Rail. Rusty Shackleford at the Jawa Reports quotes an AP report claiming that the Kerbalah raid on US troops was led by a team led by a blonde, and presumably English-speaking person.
Four American soldiers were abducted during a sophisticated sneak attack last week in the Shiite holy city of Karbala and their bodies were found up to 25 miles away, according to new information obtained by The Associated Press.
The brazen assault, 50 miles south of Baghdad on Jan. 20, was conducted by nine to 12 militants posing as an American security team. They traveled in black GMC Suburban vehicles _ the type used by U.S. government convoys _ had American weapons, wore new U.S. military combat fatigues, and spoke English.
In a written statement, the U.S. command reported at the time that five soldiers were killed while "repelling the attack." Now, two senior U.S. military officials as well as Iraqi officials say four of the five were captured and taken from the governor's compound alive. Three of them were found dead and one mortally wounded later that evening in locations as far as 25 miles east of the governor's office....
Iraqi officials said the approaching convoy of black GMC Suburbans was waved through an Iraqi checkpoint at the edge of Karbala. The Iraqi soldiers believed it to be American because of the type of vehicles, the distinctive camouflage American uniforms and the fact that they spoke English. One Iraqi official said the leader of the assault team was blond, but no other official confirmed that.
Bill Roggio says that all the evidence available to him so far suggests the Iranian Qods special forces unit were responsible for the attack.
The American Forces Information Service provides the details of the attack in Karbala. Based on the sophisticated nature of the raid, as well as the response, or cryptic non-responses, from multiple military and intelligence sources, this raid appears to have been directed and executed by the Qods Force branch of the Iranian Republican Guard Corps. My sources agreed this is far to sophisticated an operation for the Mahdi Army or Badr Corps, while al-Qaeda in Iraq would have a difficult time mounting such an operation in the Shia south.
Recently the Washington Post ran a story saying that finally the Troops Are Authorized to Kill Iranian Operatives in Iraq, after a year of "catch and release". Kinda sad ain't it?
posted by wretchard at 1/27/2007 01:52:00 PM
http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2007/01/now-boys-lets-not-overreact.html
http://clarityandresolve.com/archives/2005/05/jihads_american.php
May 30, 2005
Jihad's American Fifth Column
Federal prosecutors yesterday announced that the FBI has arrested two American Muslim citizens for their plans to go abroad in support of the death cult's holy war. You know, Islam's peaceful inner struggle for self-improvement.
NEW YORK - The FBI arrested a Florida doctor and a New York martial arts expert on federal terrorism charges, saying they conspired to treat and train terrorists, prosecutors announced Sunday.
Rafiq Abdus Sabir, a Boca Raton physician, and Tarik Shah, a self-described martial arts expert in New York, were both charged in Manhattan federal court with conspiring to provide material support to al-Qaida, according to the U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District of New York.
New York police spokesman Paul Browne said Shah was arrested early Friday. Florida authorities said Sabir was arrested Saturday. Both are American citizens.
Prosecutors said Sabir agreed to treat jihadists, or holy warriors, in Saudi Arabia. Shah allegedly agreed to train them in hand-to-hand combat.
Innocent until proven guilty. However, without a rock solid case, I doubt the Feds are willing to go ahead with any jihad charges given the hairtrigger on the islamophobia gun these days.
Check out this next part, though:
As recently as May 20, during a meeting at a Bronx apartment, Sabir indicated he would travel shortly to Saudi Arabia to treat the wounds of jihadists at a Saudi military base, prosecutors said. Travel records showed he was scheduled to leave Thursday.
Oh my! Could it be that our best friends in the Arab world™ are allowing their military bases to be used as staging and medical treatment areas for the mujahideen? Abdullah, say it isn't so!
Posted by Patrick at May 30, 2005 01:13 AM
http://clarityandresolve.com/
UPDATE: 2:41 PM: And more: Iran militia threatens to kidnap Americans
“The kidnapping of American citizens in the Middle East, Europe and South America is not difficult and can happen at any moment,” said an article printed in the weekly Subah Sadak, which is considered the mouthpiece of the Revolutionary Guards in Iran.
A little tip of the hat to President Carter there, perhaps.
Posted by Patrick at 02:31 PM | Comments (0)
[Note that the truth still does not reach those who saw the program, will it after today?]
http://flanstein.blogspot.com/2007/01/islam-evil.html
Islam = Evil...
The timing could not be more apposite. After the humorless banalities of the CBC's Little Mosque on the Prairie come the grotesque realities of Channel 4's Undercover Mosque in the U.K.
Journalists from Channel 4's Dispatches programme conducted a 10-month undercover assignment in several of Britain 's leading mosques. The resulting segment, Undercover Mosque, was aired on Jan. 15.
What is particularly relevant is that Dispatches has an international reputation for excellence and, important this, for its general left-wing approach to political issues. As such, the producers decided to investigate not those Muslim centres renowned for their extremism but various large, influential and allegedly moderate Islamic holy places.
What it found has provoked waves of shock. Several preachers and imams call for holy war, tell congregations that Muslims have to brainwash people, demand that homosexuals be murdered, insist that girls who refuse to wear the hijab should be beaten, and routinely demand that Christians and Jews be killed.
At one mosque in Birmingham , Abu Usama, one of the most popular speakers, says that Muslims have to "form a state within a state, until we take over." He says that in this state any Muslim who tried to leave Islam would be killed. "If the Imam wants to crucify him he could crucify him. The
person is put up on the wood and he's left there to bleed to death."
The documentary also shows a preacher joking about harming gay people secretly so as not to break the law. He laughs as he tells Muslim dentists to thrust extra- large needles into the faces of gay patients.
This is all especially embarrassing for the government because one of its main advisors on Islam, a Muslim member of the House of Lords, attends this particular mosque and speaks highly of it.
Another preacher in Birmingham , Dr. Billal Phillips, explains that as Muhammad married Aisha, a nine-year-old girl, all such marriages are condoned. "The prophet Muhammad practically outlined the rules regarding marriage prior to puberty. With this practice, he clarified what is permissible."
Referring to non-Muslims, another preacher says that, "No one loves the kuffaar [i.e., non-Muslims]. We hate the kuffaar! Allah has not given those people who are kuffaar a way over the believer. They shouldn't be in authority over us. Muslims shouldn't be satisfied with anything other than a total Islamic state."
The book store of the Regents Park Mosque, the largest in London , sells popular videos of the Saudi-trained Sheikh Faiz calling Jews "pigs" who will all be slaughtered. He then makes the sound of a pig and the audience laughs. In fact, throughout the sermons and lessons there is no sign of disagreement or discomfort from anyone in the packed congregations.
The Taliban is praised for killing British soldiers, and followers are repeatedly told to despise Western society. Muslims are condemned if they send their children to kuffaar schools or allow them to play with kuffaars.
The response so far has been that the documentary is mere propaganda. Tragically, it is not. It appears to be an accurate and objective expose of common teaching within those mosques that were until now considered to be standing on the front line against extremism. We would be foolish not to listen to what these Muslims are telling us.
Top Russian Judge Puzzled by Poisoning Claims by European HR Court
President
31.01.2007
MosNews
Chairman of the Russian Constitutional Court Valry Zorkin has said he
is
perplexed by a statement by former President of the European Court of
Human Rights Luzius Wildhaber claiming that he was poisoned in Russia,
the Interfax news agency reported on Wednesday.
Initially, Wildhaber was speaking only about food poisoning, the
Russian
judge said. “As far as I remember, food poisoning took place in
reality,
assuming his letter to judges of the Strasbourg court; however, it was
merely food poisoning. He then started to work and has continued to
work
up to the present. What has happened? I am not a doctor, I cannot
comment on the issue,” the chairman of the Constitutional Court told
Interfax on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, Wildhaber was not complaining about his health when in
Moscow, Zorkin said. He “was here and his health was fine, things were
all right,” he said.
Zorkin said he was surprised that a statement on the poisoning was made
only several months after the supposed incident.
Wildhaber visited Moscow on October 26 — 29, 2006, where he
participated
in an international conference.
Switzerland’s Die Neue Zuericher Zeitung newspaper published an
interview with Wildhaber last Sunday in which he stated that he may
have
been poisoned during his visit Russia, as shortly after the visit blood
poisoning was diagnosed in a Basel hospital.
He also claims that pressure had been exerted on him many times when
suits dealing with human rights violations in Russia were heard.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chechnya-sl/
Caucasian Knot / Memorial
30/1/2007
RF Supreme Court to consider the case of Badalov and Ahmetkhanov,
Chechnya natives
At 10 a.m. on January 31, the Presidium of the Supreme Court of the
Russian Federation (RF) will consider the supervisory presentation of
the State Office of Public Prosecutor, lodged in protest to the
decision
of the Judicial Board on Criminal Cases of the Russian Supreme Court,
which cancelled the verdict in relation to two Chechnya natives and
their helpers, convicted by the Tver Regional Court for extortion with
application of violence, robbery, kidnapping and ammunition possession.
The correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" was informed about it by
Ruslan Badalov, chairman of the human rights organization "Chechen
Committee for National Salvation" and elder brother of convict Bislan
Badalov.
On September 14, 2005, Bislan Badalov and Hasambek Ahmetkhanov, natives
of Chechnya, were sentenced to 13 years, and their comrades Alexander
Ivanov and Nikolai Uglanov - to 12 and 11 years of imprisonment in a
strict custody colony, accordingly. On July 24 last year, the Judicial
Board on Criminal Cases of the Russian Supreme Court cancelled the
verdict and sent the case to new consideration to the Tver Regional
Court by a new staff of judges. The former convicts were left behind
the
bars.
The accusation has not agreed with the cancellation of the guilt
verdict
and addressed the Presidium of the Supreme Court with a supervisory
presentation requesting to cancel the decision of the Judicial Board on
Criminal Cases of the RF Supreme Court "on Ahmetkhanov and others'
case"
and to send it to a new cassation consideration.
Author: Vyacheslav Feraposhkin, CK correspondent
http://eng.kavkaz.memo.ru/newstext/engnews/id/1174747.html
January 31, 2007 PM Anti-Terrorism News
(Afghanistan) NATO offensive 'kills 30 Taliban'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6318161.stm
(Iraq) Car bombs hit Baghdad; 47 killed in violence
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1167467859874&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
(Iraq) GI among 43 killed in Iraqi violence
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/iraq;_ylt=AirmP.0mi_swb_DHTWEFOqJX6GMA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
(Pakistan) Mortar attack in Pakistani town kills 2
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070131/ap_on_re_as/pakistan_attack_1;_ylt=AlbOuvWYvjZKsCATEWFGrIDzPukA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
Pakistan says suicide blasts linked to Taliban
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2007/January/subcontinent_January1125.xml§ion=subcontinent&col=
(UK) Ninth arrest over 'terror plot' - Described as 'major
Investigation'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6315989.stm
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Terrorism&loid=8.0.382001334&par=0
(UK) Beheading Target Revealed - up to 25 people were possible victims
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1249658,00.html
(UK) Source: British Beheading Plot Was 'Days Away'
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/01/source_british_.html
(UK) Police swooped before dawn to foil 'kidnap plot'
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2576599,00.html
(UK) Blair blackmail terror bid foiled - terrorists sought to blackmail
Blair with kidnapping
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007050177,00.html
(UK) Kidnap videos and how extremists post them online
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2576830,00.html
(UK) Birmingham Neighbors Left Shocked
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1249659,00.html
(UK) Radical cleric Abu Hamza may face US terror charges
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=SQJ1YKK1VIQBBQFIQMFCFFWAVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2007/01/31/nhamza131.xml
Kenyan police 'hack Al Qaeda laptop'
http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070131-065913-9579r
(South Africa) More SA names for terror list, says Pahad -- South
Africa has been informed that more South Africans are to be listed on the
United Nations Security Council list of terror suspects
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=297597&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/
(Somalia) US Navy scales back presence in Somalia
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070131/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_somalia_1;_ylt=Avz6SpF01TbK6T_2VcPiuL2QLIUD;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
(Boston) Terror Inquiry Turns to Tax Law - Efforts to Probe Financing
Of Islamic Extremists - Centers on IRS Violations
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB117021371480893282-lMyQjAxMDE3NzMwMTIzMTEzWj.html
A Peek Into Islamist Banking in the United States
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/01/a_peek_into_islamist_banking_i.php
(Boston) Report: Suspicious packages in Boston a 'hoax'
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16902707/
(Boston) Suspicious objects found throughout Boston after morning bomb
scare
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/city_region/breaking_news/2007/01/suspicious_obje.html
Jordan considers hanging al-Qaida murder convict - Ziad Khalaf Raja
al-Karbouly
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1167467858683&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
(Philippines) Leaders' deaths may drive Philippine al-Qaida-linked
group back to banditry, military says
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/31/asia/AS-GEN-Philippines-Abu-Sayyaf.php
(Netherlands) Amsterdam: Investigation into mosque - police want to see
if the mosque is guilty of incitement or threats
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2007/01/amsterdam-investigation-into-mosque.html
(Al Qaeda) New As Sahab Tape: Al Libi blames US, UK, and Libyan
Governments for HIV Infected Children in Libya
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LauraMansfield/message/165
(US) Gonzales to Release to Senators Documents on Secret Terror
Surveillance Program
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,249040,00.html
Iran two to three years from nuclear weapon: think tank
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070131/wl_mideast_afp/britainirannuclear_070131183746;_ylt=AlLIh9_BoS32aFUppKBI3qxSw60A;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
Iran Denies Nuclear-Test Help From North Korea
http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2007/01/4a2e462b-8d6c-4365-b88e-c27dec357099.html
Iran: Khamenei Proposes Anti-U.S. Alliance To Russia
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Politics&loid=8.0.381211987&par=0
(Russia) Police: Muslim leader in Russia's Ingushetia region wounded in
attack
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/31/europe/EU-GEN-Russia-Restive-South.php
Osama's brother-in-law shot dead in raid - Jamal Khalifa alleged to
helped finance Abu Sayyaf group in Philippines
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21148566-2,00.html
Other News:
London Prison Changes Direction of Toilets in Respect to Islamic Law
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,248597,00.html
(Canada) Quebec city - No stoning or circumcision, town dictates
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/01/31/wquebec131.xml
http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?fr=yalerts-keyword&c=&p=gun+at+school&ei=utf-8
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Editorial
A Dirty Case
Why is Vladimir Putin protecting two suspects in the murder of a
Russian
dissident in London?
Wednesday, January 31, 2007; Page A14
WHEN THE former Russian KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko died of polonium
poisoning in November, many people assumed that his murder, like those
of numerous other opponents of Russian President Vladimir Putin, would
never be solved. But Mr. Litvinenko was killed in London, not in
Moscow,
and Scotland Yard believes it has cracked the case. According to
reports
in several of Britain's leading newspapers, the police have concluded
that two former KGB agents who met Mr. Litvinenko at a hotel on Nov. 1
are prime suspects in his death.
The two men are Andrei Lugovoy, a former KGB bodyguard to top Communist
apparatchiks, and Dmitry Kovtun, a former army officer in
Czechoslovakia
and East Germany. They allegedly left traces of polonium-210, the rare
substance that killed Mr. Litvinenko, nearly everywhere they went on
their journey from Moscow to London and back. The teapot used at their
meeting with Mr. Litvinenko was found to be heavily contaminated,
according to the newspaper reports. In fact, the assassins apparently
delivered something like a "dirty bomb" of radiation to London:
According to Britain's Health Protection Agency, contamination was
found
at 20 sites around the city, and 129 people appear to have been
exposed.
Given the seriousness of the crime, a vigorous prosecution of the
Russians might be expected. Only, they have a powerful protector: Mr.
Putin's own government, which, while denying any culpability in Mr.
Litvinenko's killing, is nevertheless blocking British access to Mr.
Lugovoy and Mr. Kovtun. During a visit to Moscow in December, British
detectives were not allowed to directly question the two men, who were
then staying in hospitals. Russian officials then opened their own
"investigation" and drew up a long list of Putin enemies in London --
from Chechen rebels to former executives of the Yukos oil company. No
evidence connects anyone on the Russian list to the murder, but Moscow
is saying it will not allow Scotland Yard access to the real suspects
unless it can interrogate its targets in Britain.
There's no proof yet that Mr. Putin ordered or approved the London
dirty
bomb, but the questions for him keep multiplying: Why, if the Russian
authorities are innocent, do they deny access to Mr. Lugovoy and Mr.
Kovtun? Why do they continue to blame enemies of Mr. Putin without
offering any evidence? What explains the leakage of a dangerous
quantity
of polonium, which is produced and held almost exclusively in Russia?
And why, as a Polish newspaper documented last week, were pictures of
Mr. Litvinenko being employed for target practice last November at a
training center used by elite Russian special forces? The director of
the center, a founder of a special operations unit, was accused by Mr.
Litvinenko of being a KGB agent whose facility prepared contract
killers. Mr. Putin is holding his annual international news conference
tomorrow; we hope he'll be prompted for some answers.
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Eurasia Insight:
GEORGIA'S URANIUM SCANDAL: A PR CAMPAIGN FOR REUNIFICATION?
Molly Corso: 1/30/07
A uranium smuggling incident is providing fresh fuel for the long-running Georgian-Russian feud. Russian officials have termed news of Georgia’s uranium smuggling investigation “a provocation.” Meanwhile, Georgian analysts believe the incident may provide new momentum for the Georgian government’s efforts to restore its authority over the breakaway territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
At present, Russian peacekeepers are responsible for maintaining a semblance of order in the two separatist entities. Georgian officials appear intent on using news of the uranium smuggling attempt to garner support for the replacement of the Russian peacekeepers with a multinational force. Such a move would significantly reduce Russia’s geopolitical leverage over Georgia. [For background see the Eurasia Insight archive].
From the outset, the Georgian government has maintained the uranium smuggling scandal exposes a need for greater international control over separatist South Ossetia and Abkhazia. In a January 25 statement, released the day information about the year-long investigation became public, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs charged that the arrests of four alleged uranium smugglers – one Russian, three Georgian – underscored the lack of control over the mountainous borders that run between Russia and the two contested territories. [For background see the Eurasia Insight archive].
“[I]t should be emphasized that uncontrolled separatist territories in Georgia serve as a safe haven for illegal activities related to proliferation of different components of weapons of mass destruction,” the ministry declared. “This is one of the reasons why the government of Georgia has long sought [the] stationing of international observers on the segments of its border with the Russian Federation adjacent to Georgia’s separatist territories of Abkhazia and the Tskhinvali Region/South Ossetia.”
Mamuka Areshidze, chairman of the Caucasian Centre of Strategic Research in Tbilisi, and Dr. Archil Gegeshidze, a senior fellow at the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies, noted that the announcement about the smuggling case is “probably” part of a larger strategy by the Georgian government to emphasize to the outside world the need for concrete action on its concerns about the two territories. Georgia’s accusations about uranium smuggling come on the heels of charges that a counterfeiting operation, responsible for manufacturing at least $42 million in $100 bills, exists on South Ossetian territory. The separatist leadership in the South Ossetia has rejected Tbilisi’s accusation.
“[I]t is worthwhile for the Georgian government to continuously try and bring international attention to the fact that these regions are not controlled and [that] they can create instability throughout the region,” Areshidze said.
Information about the 100 grams of weapons-grade uranium -- reportedly transported to Georgia via South Ossetia -- has run in parallel with a slew of fresh statements from President Mikheil Saakashvili’s administration about its intentions toward both South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
In a televised speech on January 25, the day the government released information in Tbilisi about its investigation, Saakashvili told viewers that “[t]he time has come for us to prepare to take much more decisive steps forward” for “the final reunification of our country." Residents of Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, “are still being held hostage by a gang of criminals, as are our citizens who reside in the surrounding villages,” Saakashvili charged in remarks broadcast by television station Rustavi-2.
“[O]ur Abkhazia,” he continued, “is in the hands of people who impudently … declare that they will never let in the people … who were unconscionably expelled from there. Georgia will never reconcile itself to that.”
In a January 25 article, The New York Times reported Georgian Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili as saying that Georgian investigators had arrested one man in August 2006 for smuggling raw uranium from Abkhazia. The Times said that Abkhaz officials have pledged to cooperate with an investigation, but have denied knowledge of the man's detention.
Officials in both South Ossetia and Abkhazia, however, have scoffed at the notion that their territories are being used as a transit zone for nuclear materials. Murat Dzhioyev, the de facto foreign minister of South Ossetia, has argued that Tbilisi is using the uranium scandal to gain leverage in the ongoing World Trade Organization negotiations between Georgia and Russia. Tbilisi is demanding, so far unsuccessfully, that Russia uphold a 2004 agreement to legalize trade along its borders with both South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
As in South Ossetia, Abkhaz officials moved quickly to deflect Georgia’s security concerns. “Nobody ever tried to smuggle weapons of mass destruction across the Russian-Abkhazian border,” the Russian state-run news agency ITAR-TASS quoted de facto Abkhazian foreign minister Sergei Shamba as saying on January 26. "Abkhazia is just as mindful of regional security as is Georgia.”
Shamba argued that Georgia's announcement was designed to coincide with a United Nations Security Council discussion of the situation in Abkhazia. In a January 24 statement, the Security Council expressed “concern at some of the aspects of the tense situation” in Abkhazia, but described the return of United Nations monitors and Russian peacekeepers to observe the Georgian-controlled Upper Kodori Gorge as “[e]specially important.”
For now, chances for substantive talks between Tbilisi and the separatist governments appear slim. On January 30, de facto Abkhaz leader Sergei Bagapsh repeated his readiness to hold direct talks with Saakashvili, provided that Georgia agrees to the “demilitarization” of the Kodori Gorge, among other conditions. The Georgian government did not immediately respond to Bagapsh’s statement.
The same day, however, following an appeal by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Chairman-in-Office Miguel Angel Moratinos, the Georgian government agreed to join an “informal” meeting of the Joint Control Commission, which oversees the South Ossetian peace talks, in Tskhinvali. Moscow and Tskhinvali have not yet responded to the announcement.
Georgian officials steadfastly dispute the notion that they are trying to use the smuggling case for Tbilisi’s own political gain. According to Zurab Bendianishvili, a specialist on the Georgian parliament’s provisional Committee on Territorial Integrity Issues, the government’s aim is merely to alert the world to a potentially dangerous proliferation problem. “We are working to make sure Russia secures its borders. Not to utilize the situation against the peacekeepers,” Bendianishvili said.
It remains uncertain whether the uranium smuggling incident will heighten the scrutiny of Russian peacekeeping operations. Even with the threat of uranium smuggling, noted the analyst Gegeshidze, it will be difficult for Tbilisi to force the international community to take any action against Russia in both Abkhazia and South Ossetia. “Georgia is not as vital for the West as it is for Russia’s strategy,” he said. “If you weigh Georgia’s importance to the West and Russia’s importance [to the West], Georgia loses.”
Editor’s Note: Molly Corso is a freelance reporter and photojournalist based in Tbilisi.
http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/pp012807.shtml
Eurasia Insight:
GEORGIA: URANIUM CASE UNDERSCORES NUKE SAFETY FEARS
Claire Bigg: 1/28/07
A EurasiaNet Partner Post from RFE/RL
Moscow and Tbilisi have traded harsh words after Georgia revealed it had arrested a Russian man last year trying to sell weapons-grade uranium.
The incident marks a new low in already strained Russian-Georgian relations and raises fresh fears worldwide that some of Russia's huge nuclear stockpiles could fall into terrorist hands.
Last February in Tbilisi, a Georgian undercover agent, aided by the CIA, posed as a rich foreign buyer interested in purchasing weapons-grade uranium for a Muslim man from "a serious organization."
The mission: seize Oleg Khinsagov, a Russian man trying to sell a small amount of highly enriched uranium, and confiscate his merchandise.
The operation was a success and Khinsagov was sentenced to 8 and 1/2 years in prison.
Although the purity of the uranium seized is ideal for making nuclear weapons, the quantity is too small. A nuclear bomb requires at least 15 kilograms of highly enriched uranium.
Both the trial and the incident itself were kept secret until Thursday (January 26), when Georgian Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili, who was visiting Washington this week, revealed the case in comments published by U.S. media.
Reasons For Disclosure
So why is Tbilisi making the incident public now, almost one year after it occurred?
Nikoloz Rurua, the deputy chairman of the Georgian parliament's Committee for Defense and Security, told RFE/RL's Georgian Service that there had been "a request by our American colleagues -- not to publicize this information due to certain considerations related to the operation."
"I cannot say more about this. It was their request, and we complied with it. This applied to a particular period of time, which has now passed, and we -- the country on whose soil this legal violation took place -- naturally made this information public," Rurua said.
Georgian Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili, however, had a different story. He said he was revealing the case out of frustration with Russia's lack of cooperation in the investigation that followed the arrest.
According to him, Russia hampered Georgia's attempts to determine whether Khinsagov had access to larger quantities of uranium, as he had boasted prior to his detention.
New Russia-Georgia Spat
Russian authorities confirmed the arrest, but struck back by saying Georgia prevented Russia from identifying the substance's country of origin by presenting a sample too small to work with. He accused Georgia of failing to provide a larger sample despite repeated requests.
The Khinsagov case has also revived tensions over Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the two Georgian separatist republics backed by Moscow.
Merabishvili said the Russian smuggler came to Georgia's attention during an investigation into what he called extensive smuggling networks in and around the breakaway border regions.
The incident has once again prompted calls in Georgia for international observer missions in both regions, a proposal that Tbilisi has been pushing in past months.
"Any uncontrolled territory represents dangers not only for the country within which this territory lies, but for the international community as a whole,'' deputy Rurua said. "We believe this is a crucial reason for the international community to take the resolution of problems in the Tskhinvali region and in Abkhazia seriously."
Nuclear Safety Fears
The international community, however, seems more concerned about how 100 grams of nuclear-bomb grade uranium fell into the hands of a 50-year-old Russian trader, who specialized in fish and sausages.
Speaking today at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, International Atomic Energy Agency chief Muhammad el-Baradei reiterated the urgency of joining forces in preventing rogue states from obtaining material for nuclear weapons.
The incident is reminiscent of a similar case in 2003, when Georgian border guards caught an Armenian man with about 170 grams of highly enriched uranium. According to Georgia, the man said the uranium came from the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, home to a major nuclear complex.
A number of experts say Khinsagov, too, is likely to have obtained uranium in Russia, where a nuclear black market emerged from the chaos that followed the 1991 Soviet collapse.
Efforts To Be Safe
But Ivan Safranchuk, who heads the Moscow office of the U.S.-based Center for Defense Information, says getting hold of highly enriched uranium in Russia is not that easy.
"Over the past nine years, serious efforts have been made to improve the system of physical protection and security of nuclear facilities, both military and civilian. So in my opinion, obtaining nuclear substances in Russia is extremely difficult. Today, if I were a terrorist seeking nuclear substances, I would go to Pakistan, not Russia," Safranchuk says.
Former Soviet countries have indeed taken steps towards boosting nuclear security, often financed by the West.
Russia, in particular, says it is actively cooperating with other nations, including the United States, to combat nuclear proliferation.
But Vladimir Chuprov, the chief nuclear expert at Greenpeace's Russian office, says security at Russian nuclear facilities remains deplorable.
"In Russia, the physical defense and security of radioactive material doesn't meet the required standards. In 2002, a group of Greenpeace activists, together with journalists and a State Duma deputy, entered without difficulties the territory of the national stockpile of wasted nuclear fuel, climbed on the roof of the stockpile's building complex, shot photographs and videos, and quietly left. Nine months later, the Federal Security Service repeated the same experience. Nothing had changed," Chuprov says.
According to Chuprov, poor working conditions and rampant corruption in Russia's post-Soviet nuclear sector continue to provide a fertile breeding ground for nuclear contraband.
The Khinsagov case is likely to put the state of Russia's sprawling nuclear stockpiles back into the spotlight once again.
http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav013007a.shtml
Eurasia Insight:
FOES TAKE AIM AT AHMADINEJAD
Kamal Nazer Yasin: 1/30/07
As tension builds between Iran and the international community over the Iranian nuclear program, an even more significant conflict keeps brewing inside Iranian governing circles.
On one side is the faction associated with the radical-conservative president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. On the other sits an assortment of hard-line and traditionalist conservative groupings that are angling to take advantage of the administration’s mounting difficulties. Ahmadinejad and his neo-conservative allies are coming under increasing criticism over the country’s worsening economic situation, as well as its international isolation.
On the economic front, experts place the real rate of inflation near 30 percent, roughly double the official figure. According to some estimates, rents and housing prices in Tehran have increased over 40 percent in the last year. In addition, food prices are rapidly rising. A cascade of business failures, coupled with unprecedented levels of capital flight, has fanned fears of an economic collapse. Most observers agree that, so far, the government has failed to deliver on promises of improved living standards for its main political constituency, comprising impoverished and working-class Iranians.
In the face of growing pressure, the Ahmadinejad administration has ratcheted up its nationalist rhetoric. During an appearance in parliament January 21, made in connection with his presentation of the government’s 2007 fiscal year budget, Ahmadinejad appeared determined to goad the international community into intensifying the confrontation over the nuclear issue. [For background see the Eurasia Insight archive]. He indicated that United Nations sanctions would not deter his administration in its efforts to make Iran a nuclear power. “Even if they issue 10 more such resolutions, it will not affect Iran’s economy or politics,” he said, referring to a UN Security Council resolution adopted in late December. [For additional information see the Eurasia Insight archive]. In addition, he dismissed inflation worries as mere “rumors.”
The confrontational rhetoric seems to be heightening a sense of urgency among Ahmadinejad’s growing number of opponents, who want to restrain the president’s policies before he steers Iran into a geopolitical corner. Several MPs have launched an initiative to force Ahmadinejad to appear in parliament for hearings on his administration’s economic policies. Proceedings are also underway to impeach four of his ministers accused of incompetence.
In mid-January, 150 legislators sent an open letter to Ahmadinejad, blaming him for rising inflation and high unemployment. The MPs also insisted that the administration take action to control spending, as well as reduce the country’s dependence on oil revenue to fill the state’s coffers.
The reformist newspaper Etemad Melli attacked Ahmadinejad’s mid-January tour of three Latin American nations – Venezuela, Nicaragua and Ecuador. The newspaper suggested that Ahmadinejad’s “left-wing friends are good for coffee house talks, but not for setting our security, political and economic priorities.”
By far the sharpest criticism has been directed at Ahmadinejad’s nuclear rhetoric. According to Iranian sources, statements made by Ahmadinejad on several occasions have disrupted delicate discussions between lead European Union nuclear negotiator Javier Solana and his Iranian counterpart, Ali Larijani.
The first barrage of criticism of the president’s meddling in nuclear matters came on January 12, when the newspaper Hamshahri, published by a Larijani ally, characterized Ahmadinejad’s confrontational rhetoric unproductive and unnecessary. “At the very moment when the nuclear issue was about to move away from the UN Security Council, the fiery speeches of the president have resulted in the adoption of two resolutions against Iran,” the commentary said.
On January 15, an editorial in the influential Jomhouri Eslami newspaper, which represents the views of the traditionalist-conservative clergy, skewered Ahmadinejad’s policies in surprisingly harsh terms. “Turning the nuclear issue into a propaganda issue gives the impression that you [Ahmadinejad], [try] to cover up flaws in the government,” the editorial stated. It went on to demand that Ahmadinejad “stop provoking aggressive powers like the United States, and concentrate on the daily needs of the people, those who voted for you on your promises.”
Observers are quick to point out that Ahmadinejad is overstepping his authority on nuclear matters. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, they note, designated Larijani as the Iranian official with ultimate responsibility for nuclear policy. Ayatollah Khamenei’s support proved critical to Ahmadinejad’s rise to power. However, it appears that the Supreme Leader’s commitment to Ahmadinejad’s course is now wavering.
While Ahmadinejad struggles to shore up his political position, his chief rival for power, Aliakbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, is taking fast action to bolster his image as a sober-minded alternative to the president’s in-your-face approach to politics. Rafsanjani’s political clout has risen dramatically since Iran’s December 15 elections, in which pro-presidential candidates took a beating in votes for municipal councils and for the Assembly of Experts. [For background see the Eurasia Insight archive].
On January 24, Rafsanjani demonstrated his intent to expand his influence over nuclear policy by meeting with the British ambassador, Geoffrey Adams. Just days after Iran caused consternation in the international community by prohibiting 38 inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency from entering Iran, Rafsanjani reportedly told Adams that Iran wanted to prove its nuclear program is for civilian applications only. The Iranian politician suggested that Tehran was open to negotiating “any verifying measures by responsible authorities.”
In addition, Rafsanjani has embraced moderation in his approach to the nuclear issue. "Rhetoric should be adopted in a wiser way, as the current situation is anything but normal," he said January 26 during Friday prayers in Tehran.
Editor’s Note: Kamal Nazer Yasin is a pseudonym for a freelance journalist specializing in Iranian affairs.
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Thursday, February 01, 2007
On Russia's Extermination of Journalism
Writing in Forbes, journalist Gary Weiss comments on Russia's spate of journalist killings:
A delegation of the Committee to Protect Journalists was in Moscow recently--a high-octane one, led by Wall Street Journal managing editor Paul Steiger and former Time Inc. editor-in-chief Norman Pearlstein. There were meetings with Russian officials and journalists, but this was not one of your standard feel-good cultural exchange projects.
The subject was--and is--murder. Thirteen journalists have been killed in Russia since 2000, in a brutal and systematic campaign to snuff out free speech and terrorize the former Soviet republics. One of the slain journalists was Paul Klebnikov, an American who was gunned down on the streets of Moscow in July 2004.
Now I'm realistic, or perhaps a bit cynical. I don't expect most people in this country to be too surprised or even upset about any of this. After all, this is Russia--the country that almost blew us to bits during the Cold War, and where American citizens live and work in an atmosphere of fear, violence and intimidation.
Still, you should care a great deal--you should be screaming and hollering, in fact--about the slaying of Paul Klebnikov, a brilliant investigative journalist who was editor of the Russian edition of Forbes magazine. This brazen murder, which has never been solved, was a crime against America as much as it was against Paul, his family and his information-hungry Russian readers.
The time has arrived for our government to initiate an investigation, with the aim of apprehending and prosecuting Paul's murderers wherever they may be.
That could open up a hornet's nest of international complications, which is why a formal U.S. investigation has not been launched. But failure to act would play into the hands of the terrorists who carried out this murder. Let's review for a moment why Paul was killed, and why it requires a strong U.S. response that--for understandable reasons--has not yet been forthcoming.
Unlike the other brave Russian journalists who were murdered, Paul's audience was as much this country as it was Russia. He wrote books that shaped American perceptions of Russia's new elite, in addition to his groundbreaking Russian-language investigative reporting.
At the time of his death, Paul was believed to have been investigating a complex web of money laundering involving a Chechen reconstruction fund, reaching into the centers of power in the Kremlin and involving elements of organized crime and the FSB (the former KGB).
Paul was murdered to prevent you from knowing about any of this. His murder was intended to send a message: No one, not even an American citizen, is immune to the forces in Russia who believe that a free press impinges on their license to steal.
Paul's murder was, in other words, an act of terrorism, and it needs to be treated as such by this country.
By law, this country can prosecute the murderer of a U.S. citizen overseas when the U.S. attorney general certifies that the murder "was intended to coerce, intimidate or retaliate against a government or a civilian population." That's as neat a description of Paul's slaying as I have ever found.
Ironically, the Russian authorities--for their own purposes--agree that it was an act of terrorism. They've maintained that Paul's death was ordered by Khozh-Akhmed Nukhaev, a Chechen separatist leader and organized crime boss who is already branded a terrorist and wanted by Moscow.
Nukhaev is an obvious suspect because he was the subject of a book that Paul wrote, Conversation With a Barbarian--a critical one, as its title suggests. But Nukhaev is just too convenient a suspect, in the view of many Americans and Russians familiar with the case. For one thing, he is, conveniently, missing.
Two Chechens were put on trial as the actual triggermen in Paul's murder, and both were acquitted. Prosecutors appealed, and a new trial is set for Feb. 15. However, there is no assurance that the defendants will actually bother to attend the trial. Both were freed after the acquittal, and one is believed to have left the country. That alone makes the chances of obtaining justice at a new trial questionable at best.
Russian authorities have maintained that the gunmen were tasked to their mission by Nukhaev. However, Chechen gunmen and killers have been known to perform "muscle" work outside of Chechnya.
The first task of any American investigation would be to clear up the question of Nukhaev's culpability.
An American interagency group has been monitoring the Russian investigation, and that could be the nucleus for a formal U.S. investigation that would call on the resources of the intelligence community. But there must be a free and open exchange of information between agencies--and that, apparently, has not been happening on the crucial issue of Nukhaev.
Scott Armstrong, a veteran investigative journalist and founder of the National Security Archive, who has been following the Klebnikov case, has been told by law enforcement and intelligence sources that significant intelligence on Nukhaev and on Chechen hoodlum gangs has not been shared with law enforcement.
The U.S. needs to resolve its interagency differences and use the full resources of the intelligence community to determine if indeed Nukhaev ordered Klebnikov killed. If he did, we should find him, arrest him and prosecute him. If not, we should find out who did--and put him behind bars if Russian authorities are unwilling to do so.
Obviously, this will cause (to put it mildly) complications in our relations with Russia, which has resented even the private pressure that has been applied in the Klebnikov case.
One might also argue that it sets a precedent whereby other nations may seek to prosecute Americans under their definition of terrorism. All that needs to be taken into consideration, as does the impact of our relations with Russia. But these factors are, I believe, outweighed by our own national interest in preserving the safety of American journalists and businessmen living and working in Russia.
The parallels between Klebnikov's slaying and the murder of Don Bolles, an Arizona journalist slain in 1976, are becoming increasingly apparent. Bolles was killed for probing the mobsters and land-fraud schemes that plagued the Southwest in the mid-1970s.
The Bolles murder resulted in the creation of the Arizona Project, a consortium of journalists that was created to continue Bolles' work. Scott Armstrong and I, along with Richard Behar and others, are members of Project Klebnikov, which has similar aims in continuing Paul's legacy. (This column, incidentally, speaks only for myself, not for the project.)
Thanks to dedicated and relentless police work, Bolles' killers were eventually brought to justice. No such outcome is likely in Russia, because Russia today is more akin to the Arizona of the 1870s than the Arizona of the 1970s--replete with robber barons, overnight fortunes, corrupt sheriffs and gunslingers for hire.
That is a domestic affair within Russia, I guess--but not when terrorism against Americans is involved.
Our government has the tools it needs to speak back to the hoodlums who sent that message to America 30 months ago. Time to use them.
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007
From Frontpagemag.com, Two Russophobiums
La Russophobe's sidebar now includes two "synposiums" of Russophobes (LR happily coins the term "russophobium" to describe such an enterprise, truly a lofty endeavor if ever there was one) hosted by Frontpagemag.com, one on the murder of Alexander Litvienko and the other on the killing of Anna Politkovskaya. The synposiums include Western Russia scholars and Soviet dissidents and lay bare the horrors of the neo-Soviet Union, calling for a dynamic and concerted Western response. They are required reading for those concerned with the rise of the neo-Soviet Union (hat tip: A Step at a Time).
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Friday, January 19, 2007
Novaya Gazeta on the Kremlin's Killers: The Full Text in Translation
On Saturday La Russophobe reported on a lengthy article in Russian from Anna Politkovskaya's paper Novaya Gazeta (alternate link to the Russian text is here) regarding the institutionalization of murder as a political tactic in Vladimir Putin's Russia (see also in this regard LR's item on the Kremlin's possible complicity in an an attempt to kill a British judge and David McDuff comments here on related material from Ezhedevny Zhurnal). We are now pleased to provide the professional quality translation of the entire article by our in-house translator, who has put in yeoman effort to make it available as soon as possible. One can't praise highly enough the breathtaking courage of Novaya Gazeta in running a story like this or the efforts of those like our translator who work to open windows to Russia that would otherwise remained closed to the non-Russian-speaking world. (FYI, here is is useful directory of Russian security organs and their abbreviations; it's a confusing alphabet soup to say the least).
SPARE ORGANS*
Igor Korolkov
Novaya Gazeta
January 11, 2007
[TN: *See translator's note at the bottom of the page for an explanation of the title, a play on words in Russian.]
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Thursday, January 18, 2007
Did the Kremlin try to Execute the Zakayev Extradition Judge?
Reader Jeremy Putley says maybe, and directs us to the following fascinating post from A Day at a Time about an attempt to murder the judge who refused to extradite exiled Chechen resisistance leader Akhmed Zakayev (pictured at left in London with the famous actress Vanessa Redgrave). Note that, unfortunately, ADAAT's link to the story does not survive due to technical issues at the source:
Neil Mackay, writing in Scotland’s Sunday Herald newspaper, has published a very long and thorough account of recent developments in Russia’s international intelligence operations. In particular, he focuses on the law passed by the State Duma on July 9 2006, which was unanimously approved and which allows Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) to hunt down and kill enemies of the state anywhere on the face of the earth.
One British intelligence source said: “This marked a blatant return to the bad old days of the cold war when the KGB thought it could act with impunity anywhere it pleased.”
These so-called “Hunter-Killer” powers also curtailed the right of the Russian media - already cowed and under the control of the Kremlin - to report on these operations. However, the enactment of these new laws only put on a legal footing powers which Russian intelligence had been using extra-judicially for years.
In Chechnya, the assassination of enemies of Russia is now so common that it scarcely bears comment, and in 2004 two Russian agents were arrested and sentenced to death in Qatar for the killing of exiled Chechen separatist leader Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev. The Russian team hunted him down and planted a bomb in his car. The Qatari court ruled that the killing was sanctioned by “the Russian leadership”. The men were not executed but sent back to Russia following promises from the Kremlin that they would be imprisoned. Rumour has it that they were decorated for the assassination operation.
Akhmed Zakayev, a friend of Alexander Litvinenko and a former field commander in the first Chechen war who later became the deputy prime minister of Chechnya, says the killing of Litvinenko proved to the British people that Putin was “destroying democratic freedoms in Russia and beyond”.
Mackay also draws attention to a disturbing aspect of the Zakayev extradition case that has not been widely covered in international media:
One UK source closely linked to British intelligence told how he had a conversation with a Russian intelligence officer in 2004, in which the Russian spy spoke of the killing of a British citizen carried out by Russian agents. In January 2004, Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Workman was found shot dead on his doorstep in the Hertfordshire hamlet of Furneux Pelham. The killing seemed completely motiveless.
However, the Russian intelligence source told his British contact that Robert Workman was killed in a case of mistaken identity. The real target had been a judge called Timothy Workman who lived not far from the scene of the murder.
In late 2003, Judge Workman infuriated the Kremlin when he rejected Russia’s extradition request for Akhmed Zakayev, the Chechen leader in London. Workman said that Zakayev faced a “substantial risk” of being tortured if he was returned to Moscow to stand trial. The Kremlin accused Workman of playing “cold war politics”.
Also in 2003, Judge Workman called a halt to Russia’s attempt to have Boris Berezovsky extradited from Britain. The billionaire oligarch had fallen out with Putin and has bitterly criticised the ruling regime. Berezovsky was also a close friend of Alexander Litvinenko.
Putley adds: "It was in February 2004 that another “enemy” of the Russian state, Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, was assassinated by Russian agents in Qatar. Interviewed by the New York Times, Akhmed Zakayev said that the killing of Yandarbiyev showed that Russia under Putin had reverted to the darkest tactics of its Soviet past, when KGB agents tracked down enemies of the state overseas. He predicted that similar assassination attempts would be made again in other countries. The murder last November of Alexander Litvinenko shows how right he was."
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1 comments:
Mariposa said...
The possibility that the Kremlin may target UK judges in the same manner that US judges have been terrorized and killed for years by Colombian drug lords is blood boiling, isn't it?
Glad to see you follow McDuff's "A Step At A Time" blog, too.
1/17/2007 3:33 PM
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[New York Post] NEW YORK - Fake badge alert at city's terror targets
"Hundreds of bogus badges have been turning up at some of the city's top terrorist targets, The Post has learned"
http://www.nypost.com/seven/01282007/news/regionalnews/fake_badge_alert_at_citys_terror_targets_regionalnews_jason_marchi.htm
[TheMilwaukeeChannel.com] WISCONSIN - Postal Carrier Finds Pipe Bomb In Mailbox
"A U.S. Postal carrier discovered the small metal canister -- with a fuse -- inside a mailbox near 73rd and Hadley streets"
http://www.themilwaukeechannel.com/news/10865321/detail.html
[WBIR] TENNESSEE - Police look for suspicious men from Barrett Firearms plant
"Police are on the lookout for a man described as being of Middle Eastern descent who tried to gain access to a firearms plant in Murfreesboro"
"Critics have warned that the rifle could be used by terrorists to bring down commercial airliners or penetrate rail cars and storage plants holding hazardous materials"
http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=41691
See also 2nd incident, but deemed not a threat - http://www.newschannel5.com/Global/story.asp?S=6013576
[Examiner] USA - Can a past of Islam change the path to president for Obama?
http://www.examiner.com/a-534540~Can_a_past_of_Islam_change_the_path_to__president_.html
[Palm Beach Post] FLORIDA - Letter with mysterious powder mailed to WPB law firm
"Police and FBI agents are following up on the person who sent the letter to determine whether charges will be filed. The letter came from a property owner who lives in the state of Illinois"
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2007/01/29/0129letter.html
[AFP] FLORIDA - Threat level raised for Super Bowl
"Robert Parker, director of the Miami-Dade Police Department, said their contingency plans include bringing in officers from all over the state of Florida. They will be backed up by the military"
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2007/01/29/070129235939.l9qk8ge0.html
[Arab News] FLORIDA - Anti-Muslim Fliers Intended to Scare Neighbors About Muslims
"Fliers recently distributed in a Tampa, Florida, neighborhood accuses Muslims of stockpiling anthrax in America for years and smuggling suitcase-sized nuclear bombs into the country across the Mexican border"
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=91576&d=31&m=1&y=2007
[Cleveland Daily Banner] OHIO - Fire, bomb threat reported at Goody’s
"Cleveland Fire Department responded to a fire investigation at Goody’s on Paul Huff Parkway Monday evening. During the course of the investigation, the store received a bomb threat "
http://www.clevelandbanner.com/NF/omf/daily_banner/news_story.html?rkey=0064248+cr=gdn
[The Peninsula] CANADA - Suspicious fire in Canada’s economic hub
"A suspicious dawn fire at an Ontario transformer station sparked rolling blackouts yesterday in southern parts of the province, Canada’s most populous region and economic engine"
http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=World_News&subsection=Americas&month=January2007&file=World_News2007013112919.xml
International:
[Bloomberg] THAILAND - Thailand Bomb Attacks Target Newspaper Publisher, Hotel in Capital Bangkok
"A bomb exploded near the headquarters of the Daily News, a Thai-language daily newspaper, about 1 a.m., Police Lieutenant Colonel Manit Kasemsiri said by telephone. Another bomb went off about the same time in the parking lot of the Rama Garden Hotel, which is located next to the Daily News headquarters, he said. An investigation has started"
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=axQyx0fn76Lo&refer=worldwide
[PTI] INDIA - Bomb found near National Games venue
"A powerful Programmable Time Device was recovered on Monday near the Sarusajai National Games sports complex near Assam capital Guwahati"
http://ia.rediff.com/news/2007/jan/30assam1.htm
[TT/The Local] SWEDEN - Police destroy Umeå bomb
http://www.thelocal.se/6231/20070128/
[The Daily Star] BANGLADESH - 3 hurt in bomb attack in Kushtia
http://www.thedailystar.net/2007/01/29/d70129070894.htm
[UPI] PAKISTAN - Bomb Kills 15 Near Peshawar Mosque
http://www.postchronicle.com/news/breakingnews/article_21261286.shtml
See also http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=75951
[UPI] YEMEN - Six killed by Shia militants in Yemen
" A series of attacks by Shia militants in Yemen's Saada province killed six members of the nation's military and wounded another 20"
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20070128-024914-2131r
[Reuters] IRAQ - U.S. and Iraqi forces kill 250 militants
"U.S. and Iraqi forces killed some 250 gunmen from an apocalyptic Muslim cult on Sunday in a battle involving U.S. tanks and aircraft near the Shi'ite holy city of Najaf, Iraqi police, army and political sources said"
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNews&storyid=2007-01-28T215334Z_01_L2828035_RTRUKOC_0_UK-IRAQ.xml&src=rss
[Xinhua] IRAQ - Death toll rises to five, 35 wounded in bomb attack in Sadr City
"The death toll rose to five and 35 others wounded when a homemade bomb inside a vehicle went off in a popular market in eastern Baghdad on Sunday, an Interior Ministry source said"
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200701/29/eng20070129_345559.html
[Xinhua] THAILAND - Arabian ministers escape a bomb explodes at a Thai southern Islamic college
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200701/29/eng20070129_345549.html
[AFP] ISRAEL - World War III has already begun, says Israeli spy chief
"Halevy, who was raised in war-time London, predicted it would take at least 25 years before the battle against Islamic fundamentalist terrorism is won and during this time a nuclear strike by Islamic militants was likely"
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0%2C7340%2CL-3357552%2C00.html
[Reuters] IRAQ - Security developments in Iraq, 28 Jan 2007
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/KHII-6XW5C2?OpenDocument
[Xinhua] THAILAND - Bomb injures soldier in Thai south
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-01/29/content_5670633.htm
[Dawn] NIGERIA - Militants storm Nigerian city to free leader
"Fifty militants on Sunday fought a gunbattle with Nigerian security forces and torched police headquarters in Port Harcourt in the oil-producing Niger Delta to free one of their leaders"
http://www.dawn.com/2007/01/29/int14.htm
[KUNA] ISRAEL - Israeli police on full alert following bombing
" Israeli police went on full alert throughout Israel on Monday following a bombing attack in the Red Sea resort of Eilat"
http://www.kuna.net.kw/home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=947123
[paktribune.com] PAKISTAN - Sui gas pipeline blown up
"Unknown saboteurs blew an 18 inch gas pipeline in Sui, terminating the gas supply to Sui compressor plant from six wells"
http://paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?167467
[AP] PAKISTAN - Rockets hit Pakistani Shiite mosque, wounding 11
"Two rockets hit a Shiite Muslim mosque on Monday in the northwestern Pakistan city of Bannu, wounding 11 people, two seriously"
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/29/asia/AS-GEN-Pakistan-Mosque-Bombing.php
[ThisIsLincolnshire.uk] UNITED KINGDOM - Nightclub evacuated after tear gas attack
"It is believed that a member of the public deliberately released the noxious fumes on the ground floor of the club"
"Expert fire officers then tested the atmosphere in the building and confirmed that CS gas had been released"
http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=156582&command=displayContent&sourceNode=156408&contentPK=16513836&folderPk=87028&pNodeId=156139
[Ynet] ISRAEL - IDF forces arrest terror suspect near Jericho
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3358435,00.html
[IsraelNN.com] ISRAEL - IDF Prepares for Operation in Response to Terrorist Attack
"Following Monday morning’s suicide bombing in an Eilat bakery, Defense Minister Amir Peretz ordered the army to prepare for counter-terrorist operations. Peretz said that no ceasefire would keep Israel from responding to terrorist attacks"
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=120512
[KUNA] PAKISTAN - Suicide explosion in northern Pakistan kills three people
http://www.kuna.net.kw/home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=947143
[AP] INDIA - 2 soldiers killed in gunbattle with suspected Islamic rebels in Indian Kashmir
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/29/asia/AS-GEN-Kashmir-Fighting.php
[AFP] THAILAND - Five shot dead in Thailand's south
"Five people were shot dead and another person was injured in attacks by suspected Islamic militants in Thailand's insurgency-torn southern provinces"
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21136216-38196,00.html
[AFP] THAILAND - Thailand considers Sharia law in troubled Muslim south
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/254544/1/.html
[Peace Jounalism] NEPAL - Eight injured in Maoist bomb blast
"A Maoist blasted a bomb Sunday morning injuring eight persons at Gobindapur-8 in Dhanusha, Nepal "
http://peacejournalism.com/ReadArticle.asp?ArticleID=14609
[AP] THAILAND - Insurgents suspected in killing of three rubber plantation workers in southern Thailand
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/29/asia/AS-GEN-Thailand-Southern-Violence.php
See also http://mwcnews.net/content/view/12136&Itemid=1
[AP] THAILAND - Suspected Muslim insurgents kill policeman, torch school in southern Thailand
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20070126-2350-thailand-southernviolence.html
[New Zealand Post] NEW ZEALAND - Powder Sparks Mail Branch Closure
"Nine postal workers have had to undergo a decontamination process after one worker came into contact with the powder. They are now resting at home"
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0701/S00164.htm
[Financial Times] ISRAEL - Militants warn Israel of further bomb attacks
"A suicide bombing that killed four people in the Israeli town of Eilat yesterday was the start of a wider offensive, Palestinian militants warned. It was the first such attack in Israel for nine months and the first in the Red Sea resort"
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/ae2a2ef0-b007-11db-94ab-0000779e2340,_i_rssPage=fc3334c0-2f7a-11da-8b51-00000e2511c8.html
[Dawn] PAKISTAN - Six suspected militants held in D.I. Khan
"Two of them are suspected suicide bombers and the four others masterminded the attacks"
http://www.dawn.com/2007/01/30/nat16.htm
[fijivillage] FIJI - Suspicious Vehicle at Govt Buildings
http://www.fijivillage.com/artman/publish/article_35500.shtml
[Focus] ISRAEL - Israeli Security Forces Arrest 22 Palestinian Extremists on the Territory of the West Bank
"Israeli Security Forces arrested last night 22 wanted extremists during a military operation on the territory of the West Bank"
http://www.focus-fen.net/?id=n104582
[Daily Times] TURKEY - Turkish police detain 46 for suspected Al Qaeda links
"Turkish police on Monday detained 46 people with alleged Al Qaeda links in simultaneous operations in five provinces"
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\01\30\story_30-1-2007_pg4_4
[TNA] THAILAND - Bomb wounds 10 soldiers; schools attacked by gunmen in Narathiwat
http://etna.mcot.net/query.php?nid=27620
[Dawn] PAKISTAN - Gas pipeline blown up
http://www.dawn.com/2007/01/30/top3.htm
[IsraelNN.com] ISRAEL - IDF Intercepts Bomb-Making Equipment at Checkpoint
"equipment included four bottles of explosive material and three IDF-produced "
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=120558
[Xinhua] THAILAND - Fake bomb causes scare in central Thailand
"object was wrapped with brown adhesive tapes and attached to a clock and had a wire propping out"
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200701/30/eng20070130_346114.html
[Ynet] ISRAEL - 4 Palestinians arrested for possessing explosives
"Four Palestinians were arrested Monday night at a checkpoint east of Tulkarem when a routine search of their vehicle revealed four 800-gram bottles of explosives"
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3358713,00.html
[Kyodo News] PHILIPPINES - U.S. offers $50,000 bounty on Philippine bomb suspect
"The United States is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the capture of a Muslim rebel suspected of carrying out a series of bomb attacks in the southern Philippines, the U.S. Embassy announced Tuesday"
http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/397693
[UPI] SPAIN - Spain arrests suspects for explosives
"According to EFE, there have been recent reports that Islamic extremists have been trying to infiltrate the military in Ceuta and Melilla, where there are large Muslim populations"
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20070130-074054-8359r
[RTT News] ALGERIA - Fifteen Killed In Algeria As Islamic Militants Clash With Army
"At least 15 people were reported to be killed on Tuesday in clashes between al-Qaeda-linked Islamic militants and the Algerian army in the country's eastern region of Batna, about 430km east of the capital Algiers"
http://www.nasdaq.com/aspxcontent/NewsStory.aspx?cpath=20070130\ACQRTT200701301533RTTRADERUSEQUITY_1163.htm&selected=9999&selecteddisplaysymbol=9999&StoryTargetFrame=_top&mkt=WORLD&chk=unchecked&lang=&link=&headlinereturnpage=http://www.international.nasd
[Fox News] SOMALIA - Extremists in Somalia Threaten to Kill Any Peacekeepers Posted There
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,248799,00.html?sPage=fnc.world/africa
[Afgha.com] AFGHANISTAN - Suicide Bomb Blast Targets Afghan Troops
"A suicide car bomb attack ripped through a crowded Afghan army bus in Herat, close to the airport, leaving at least 12 people wounded"
http://www.afgha.com/?q=node/1692
[IsraelNN.com] ISRAEL - Terrorists Fire on IDF, No Injuries [3 incidents]
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=120628
[IsraelNN.com] ISRAEL - Three Islamic Jihad Terrorists Injured, Arrested
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=120631
[New York Times] IRAN - Iran May Have Trained Attackers That Killed 5 American Soldiers, U.S. and Iraqis Say
"Investigators say they believe that attackers who used American-style uniforms and weapons to infiltrate a secure compound and kill five American soldiers in Karbala on Jan. 20 may have been trained and financed by Iranian agents, according to American and Iraqi officials knowledgeable about the inquiry"
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/31/world/middleeast/31karbala.html?ref=world
[Xinhua] THAILAND - Southern bomb blast kills 1, injures 2
"roadside bomb, mined beside a main road in Yaring district, was detonated when the officials' vehicle was passing the spot on Wednesday morning. At least two officials were wounded by the blast and a local resident passing by was killed at the scene"
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200701/31/eng20070131_346341.html
[AP] UNITED KINGDOM - CounterTerrorism Police arrest 8 men in Britain in alleged plot to kidnap, behead victim
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2007/01/31/3489985-ap.html
[Xinhua] THAILAND - Six injured by bomb blast in Thai South
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-01/31/content_5679859.htm
[Reuters] BANGLADESH - Policeman killed in Bangladesh bomb blast
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/7598_1916153,000500020001.htm
[AP] SRI LANKA - Bomb kills 6 policemen in Sri Lanka
"The insurgents set off the bomb as a bus carrying the policemen drove past a university in Batticaloa district"
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/4513566.html
[IsraelNN.com] ISRAEL - Criminals Behind Netanya Bomb Blast
"explosion occurred at a parking lot near a train station and caused fears that the city had been the target of a terrorist attack"
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=120641
[Narinjara News] BURMA - Landmine and Bomb Explode in Burma
"Landmine and a bomb exploded in two separate incidents in Burma on the same day"
http://www.narinjara.com/details.asp?id=1119
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