[lizol]

Anna Politkovskaya

[lizol]

Ping

[PGalt]

Interesting. Thanks for posting.

[ditto h]

Arkicide

[nuconvert]

pong

[IronJack]

In 2004, she fell seriously ill with symptoms of food poisoning

Uh huh. The same kind of "food poisoning" Grigori Rasputin suffered.

[Chewie84]

"The Interfax news agency quoted police officials as saying a pistol and four bullets were found in the elevator."
As such, Russian police officials believe the cause of death to have been a fatal heart attack.

[bert]

Is Perky Katie next?

[oyez]

In 2004, she fell seriously ill with symptoms of food poisoning after drinking tea

Yeah, right. The thugs don't give up if the first attempt fails. Sad.

[Richard Kimball]

A couple of articles on her work:

http://www.time.com/time/europe/hero/politkovskaya.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/women/story/0,,1327791,00.html

According to these articles, she's been arrested several times, and was once held for three days without food or water. I have no idea whether she was a muslim mouthpiece, a voice for truth, or what, but she definitely believed in what she was doing. There have obviously been attempts to silence her before, and she kept working despite this. It's obviously an assassination, probably by Putin's KBG, which was apparently behind some of the earlier attempted hits and definitely behind the earlier incarcerations.

[lizol]

Too many liberals are gullible, and believe everything written by the likes of Anna Politkovskaya. It is obvious to anyone who has served in combat Politkovskaya listens to propagandists and writes while sitting at a kitchen table. Her accounts are not on the spot reporting as she would have you believe.

Well, Gary - you must be really happy today, aren't you?

[struwwelpeter]

Godspeed, Anya.

[traumer]

Cosa nostra

[familyop]

...older related post.

Second Beslan Reporter Drugged
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1212718/posts

[inpajamas]

A while back I was at Barnes a & Nobel and I saw this blue book 'Putin's Russia.' I picked it up and thumbed through it and it was plain to see that Russia was going back into darkness. I was surprised that the woman who wrote the book was able to do so and still be free or still be in Russia.

It looks like I don't have to be surprised anymore.

Here is the last paragraph of a review by Robert Chandler on Ann's book 'Putin's Russia'

"There are at least two good reasons for buying this book. One is that Politkovskaya only just survived a recent attempt on her life by the security services. Unless there is whole-hearted support for her from Western journalists, politicians and the general public, she is likely to be assassinated. The other is that the cataclysm that has engulfed Russia concerns us all; today's depraved and defeated Russia may be a greater danger to the world than the 'evil empire' of the past."

[Cringing Negativism Network]

So was this about Chechen terrorism, or about dissent?