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{{{The Russians can see around corners, anticipate events, and manipulate the thinking of Western politicians. If you want to peer into the future, and see what the future holds for Korea and the Middle East, watch Russia. Weeks before September 11, 2001, the Russian Duma held hearings that featured a Kremlin advisor, Tatyana Koryagina, who predicted something she called “Tidal Wave 21.” The main blow from this tidal wave, she said, “will be inflicted on the United States of America.” She did not mention who would be inflicting the blow, but later referred to “shadow forces.” She noted that the world had accumulated $400 trillion in financial assets, but the global GDP was only a $30 trillion. The entire structure of global finance was bloated, and ready to burst. }}}
{{{To bring this pot to a boil a further provocation was in the offing. On September 11, 2001, al Qaeda terrorists led by Mohammed Atta attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The destruction of the Twin Towers was a major blow aimed at the U.S. economy. Weeks before a Russian senior economist (from the Institute of Macroeconomic Research at the Russian Ministry of Economic Development and Trade) named Tatyana Koryagina had publicly predicted an attack on America by “shadow forces” that would collapse the U.S. economy. The dollar would soon be something to use for “wallpapering bathroom stalls,” she said. In the wake of Koryagina’s testimony before the Russian Duma, the country’s lawmakers adopted gold coinage as legal tender. Russian citizens were encouraged to dump their dollars for gold. It is suspicious that a Russian, connected to a government ministry, should roughly guess the impending hit on America. What is most interesting, in light of this, is the background of the terrorists who organized the Sept. 11 attack. According to Czech sources, Mohammed Atta was trained as a terrorist in communist Czechoslovakia before the fall of the Soviet Union. Even more interesting, Osama bin Laden’s chief lieutenant, Ayman al-Zawahiri, spent several months in Russian secret police custody. (See my article, Ayman al-Zawahiri’s Russian adventure.) This prince of the Egyptian terrorists, with his Egyptian accent, claimed that the Russians did not know who he was and let him go.}}}