I have no idea about this source, but this report is troubling if true:
Chechnya: Some Close To Putin Think Beslan Attack Was CIA
valis on Sep 07, 2004 - 02:01 PM
Rzeczpospolita.pl - Influential persons around Vladimir Putin believe that the attack in Bieslan could be the on the hands of the Americans. Putin treats as one of working versions -an analyst close to the Kremlin has said.
Some want a fat piece of our country, and others are helping them, worried that Russia as on the world\'s greatest nuclear powers is seen as a threat to them. Terrorism is certainly only an instrument in achieving these aims\" Vladimir Putin said in a saturday television address According to our informer it is no accident that such cold-war rhetoric has found a place in the head of the nation.
In one of several theories concerning the reasons for the terrorist act in North Osetia, the CIA is behind the attack. \"It is shocking\",says one analyst,\"but many people close to the president really believe it to be so. The attack is meant to ferment instability in the Northern Caucasus and turn our attentions from Southern Osetia.\"
Under the protective umbrella of Moscow in the 90\'s, South Osetia has been separated from Georgia. The young and dynamic Georgian president Michail Saakaszwili, who is backed by the US, is doing everything he can to establish control over the region under Tblisi. In recent times, regular skirmishes have occurred in the volatile region.
Publicist of the political portal polit.ru; Boris Dolgin; in analysis of Putins address,writes that the fragment about the \'fat piece\' is the most interesting and simultaneously most unclear: \"Who helps? If Al-Kaida it is banal and expected;if it\'s the Western powers then the statement is radical\" thinks Dolgin.
If president believes the line pushed by some advisors about an American plot, it is possible to expect a cooling of relations between Russia and the USA and a narrowing of links with western Europe. Already there is a conviction in a radical reform of the defence forces and security services.
In turn, Chechen separatists have accused the Russian Federal Security Service of provocation. Acording to them, the FSB dropped off the bodies of a number of Chechen prisoners,which were held in secret prisons earlier, in order to saddle chechnyan separatists with the blame for the attack. One of killed, according to rebels, was 31 year old Chanpasa Kulajew, who the Russian newspaper \"Gazetia\" identified as a bodyguard of Samila Basajew, and who the rebels say was in Russian hands for 3 years. Most important russian media had informed of his capture in 2001.
This article was translated from mirror-world.ru.