[Wuli]

I wonder if she was recently working on a corruption story and if one of her sources was Andrei Koslov.

Mr. Koslov was the first deputy chairman of the Russian Central bank. He was murderd in Moscow on September 14th. He had known he was in danger for a long time because he attacked money laundering and shady financial practices by strong men in and out of government. Maybe "they" got to his records after his murder and found out who all he had been talking to. Maybe he was working with her because he thought the news exposure of what he had been uncovering would protect him, by identifying his enemies.

Just speculating today.

[MarMema]

Very good speculation.

[struwwelpeter]

I used to argue long and hard about the Chechen war with people who knew Politkovskaya.

I am for killing any Wahhabist (Jihadist) anywhere, anytime, with any means and to Hell with collateral damage. They would respond that I was naive if I thought the war in Chechnya had anything to do with terrorism. They claimed that it was all about money, or rather, the expropriation of government funds.

Both Newsmax (convervative) and Jametown (liberal) have come to similar conclusions.