Chechen honour for dead spy

Al Jazeera ^ | Sunday, Nov 26, 2006

[A. Pole]

Martyr bump

[Andy from Beaverton]

But he never furnished proof to back his accusations about the attacks, blamed on Chechen rebels.

Sounds like a Dan Rather problem?

[MediaMole]

If the Chechen butchers are honoring the guy, Putin may have done the world a favor.

[frogjerk]

Al Jezeera?

[US_MilitaryRules]

I think I agree with you if it is true.

[GarySpFc]

It has been almost totally ignored in the Western media that Linvinenko converted to Islam 2 months ago.

[cripplecreek]

That's the first I had heard about his conversion. It certainly lends credibility to the possibility of self poisoning.

[FLOutdoorsman]

Well David Satter wrote about it, also, Anna Politkovskaya was shot dead in October.

Would not be the first time a Country killed their own.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior

[outofstyle]

Thanks for the post. I see that this is very complicated and there are many bad guys who could have been involved in this.

[Cheburashka]

It has been almost totally ignored in the Western media that Linvinenko converted to Islam 2 months ago.
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Link, please.

If it's credible, many red faces here on Free Republic, no?

Being honored by the child-killers is bad enough...

[GSlob]

Like flies for crap, you have the predilection for crappy sources: debka, al jazeera, and the like. Do you have a civilizational allergy to everything decent?

[A. Pole]

Like flies for crap, you have the predilection for crappy sources: debka, al jazeera, and the like.

You are missing the point. Al Jazeera is a Muslim source and might be appropriate for info about Muslim converts. I never use debka (unless by mistake).

[Liberty Valance]

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[GarySpFc]

Link, please.
If it's credible, many red faces here on Free Republic, no?

Being honored by the child-killers is bad enough...

I found 776 links by Googling saying Litvinenko converted to Islam, but I am certain the Russophobes will try to kill any source we post. Here is one and some of the comments.

Alexander Litvinenko poisoned by FSB converted to Islam before his death November 24, 2006

Alexander Litvinenko who was poisoned in London by the FSB, a Russian secret service, for criticizing Putin and died from poisoning on Thursday night, November 23, 2006, converted to Islam some time ago, the Chechenpress news agency reported.

Before he died, Muslim rituals were perforned at his death bed. A mullah, invited from a London mosque, read the Sunnah Yasin.

[GarySpFc]

Via Playfuls.com: 'Radio station Echo Moskvy reported Friday that Litvinenko converted to Islam. Litvinenko, it said, was read the Yasin surah, or prayer, and given Islamic death rites by an imam invited to the dying spy's hospital bedside. Ekho, a prominent liberal broadcaster funded by state-owned gas monopoly Gazprom, said Litvinenko would be buried in a Muslim cemetery in London. The station cited Chechenpress, the official news agency of the wartorn republic's insurgency. A statement dictated by Litvinenko two days before his death and read by friends on Friday said nothing about a conversion to Islam.

[Timedrifter]

Litvinenko had also "adopted the Muslim religion", according to the Chechen declaration, making him a "martyr" with his death.

Remember that in Islam you can only be a martyr if you willingly sacrifice your life for the faith. Suicide needs to be taken more seriously in this case.

[Canard]

BBC Obit here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6163502.stm

"He also denounced the war in Chechnya as a crime, called for Russian troops to be withdrawn, and said compensation should be paid to Chechens.

One of his friends - and one of a number of Russian exiles now settled in Britain - is Akhmed Zakayev, a former Chechen commander living under asylum in London.

The two men lived on the same street in London, it has been reported."

[GSlob]

Well, if you take such sources seriously, maybe I'll be able to sell you, say, a spassky tower of kremlin. Cheap, too. Who would believe the baboon's claim of Litvinenko conversion?

[A. Pole]

Is there any reason why you think that Litvinenko conversion is unlikely?