Barbara Streisand's in the Lyubyanka? I can't imagine what they're putting her through!
Posted on 11/30/2006 11:02:53 AM PST by GarySpFc
If I simply stood anywhere near Boris Berezovsky, I’m sure my hair would fall out and my skin would turn yellow.
Alexander Litvinenko is simply the last in a long line of stiffs associated with Boris, a line of corpses that stretches back to the mid-nineties. One died from a mysterious nerve toxin applied to the rim of his coffee cup.
If you want to know about Boris Berezovsky, ask former Forbes editor Paul Klebnikov. Except you can’t, because he was blown away in 2004, shortly after writing up Berezovsky’s bullet-ridden bio, ‘Godfather Of Crime’.
The Litvinenko case is notable for the disinformation spread by the UK’s press, where the ‘facts’ have changed daily. Who makes this stuff up? Why, story and pictures supplied by The Godfather’s PR Firm - one with the sole aim of naming the killer as the Kremlin. Or might that just be a smokescreen for a mafia hit? At the very least, it’s a case of Pottinger calling the kettle black.
The media first linked Litvinenko with the poisoning of Yushchenko. How did that come about? Well, PR just happened to contact John Henry, the toxicologist, to put the Thallium rumour about. Shamefaced John now regrets his diagnosis and admits he was misled about aspects of the case. He stood near Boris and, as the Guardian put it today, got his fingers burned.
The BBC reported radioactive metal objects lodged in Litvinov’s intestines. Source? Potttinger PR. Litvinenko’s doctor subsequently complained about the BBC’s unhelpful speculation. But, who cares about facts as long as Putin gets maligned.
Litvinenko didn’t care much for facts either. He was a loose cannon who would say anything and was paid handsomely by Boris for so doing. A good example of one of Livinenko’s rants is an interview where he blames the London 7/7 bombings on Putin. According to Litvinenko, Yassar Arafat, Saddam and al-Zawahiri are all KGB agents too. Litvinenko would give gullible journalists declassified, old 1970s documents marked ’secret’ to prove his cred. Boris bought him a half a million pound house in London. Good job.
The other political link the media has sought to forge is between Litvinenko and Politovskaya. Well, there is a link, but not the one generally publicised. Shortly before Paul Klebnikov was hit, he was investigating the embezzlement of Russian funds intended for reconstruction in Chechnya - a fatal line of enquiry the investigative Politovskaya was also following,
Litvinenko’s rants were published in the UK Chechen press. An interesting link is between Berezovsky, Litvinenko and Zakayev, the Chechen warlord, is that they were all mysteriously given asylum in the UK as ‘needy human rights cases’. Yeah, right.
Why London needs a coterie of foreign criminals is beyond me, but they appear to have some friends in very high places. Even Zhirinovsky has asked the perfectly reasonable question ‘ why Cherie Blair works in a law firm which is servicing our Russian thugs, Berezovsky included.’
It’s bad enough having Lord Bell influence the media on behalf of the Mafia. Even more disturbing is that Scotland Yard did not investigate the case until several days after the poisoning was reported. Does Boris have friends there too? Not important. By this time Britain’s media had secured a conviction.
As you read it, know that I have a cat named Novichok. An OLD cat, mean as hell.
Now watch him go and die of Po-210 poisoning just to make me look bad ;-)
It is a good thing you did not post this shortly before April First, gospodin Struwwelpeter!
>Nope, Putin will not run for president.
What are you going to do when he does?
A few years before the USMLM officer was killed, while ex-KGB chief Andropov was trying to pass himself off as a peaceful admirer of Frank Sinatra and Johnny Walker Red, KAL 007 was shot down. That effectively ended the "peace offensive" back then. BTW: Andropov was Gorby's mentor.
Not quite so long ago: desantnik, General, and Hero of the Soviet Union Pavel Sergeyevich Grachev was accused of personal involvement in major military corruption scandals that occurred during the withdrawal of the Soviet troops from East Germany, and were the focus of a series of articles published by investigative journalist Dmitry Kholodov, who was killed by a suitcase bomb.
Gen Grachev was the overreacher who began the shooting in Chechnya when in 1994 claimed he could clear those raghead insurgents out *with just two regiments of paratroopers.* Two years later, the Russian army lost that war and Grachev lost his job as Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation, in June of 1996.
I'm beginning to smell Pavel Sergeyevich....
What are you going to do when he does?
Not vote straight Democratic Party?
This devil-may-care assault on the city, without maps, without communications, without the necessary support, or even a concrete plan of action, can be considered the first act of the Chechen war, whose ten-year anniversary Russia needs to mark. Not simply because it will be the last such 'round number' anniversary of the present Chechen campaign. The result of that first attempt to solve the whole problem in one crushing blow, of this 'victorious' operation to introduce law and order onto Chechen soil, could clearly be seen in the frames of the burnt-out tanks, the disfigured corpses of the soldiers, the dirty, emaciated Russian prisoners with fatal melancholy in their eyes, the self-indulgence and illiteracy of the Arbat generals and their neglect of this human 'cannon fodder', and in the lies and treachery of our government officials.Original in Russian here, English here
When Minister of Defense Pavel Grachev, stared unblinkingly into the camera, he assured us that he did not know which soldiers they were trying to blame on the Russian Federation, these "unidentified objects" were sitting on television set right alongside us. They listened to their minister, as condemned men listen to last news about the refusal of a pardon. This was not a metaphor. The night before, Dudayev had declared: if Moscow did not acknowledge the captured tankers of its own, then they would be publicly executed. He reaffirmed this during his first meeting with Sergey Yushenkov and his associates. Someone asked him: "You wouldn't do this, would you?" Dudayev pointed out the window, where for the second day since our arrival in Grozniy a crowd numbering in the thousands danced and burned the air with their shouts. "If I don't execute them, they'll execute me with them," said the president of Chechnya with a smile.
I read the book with my hair standing on end. It was a while ago; were these guys mentioned in Alibek's book?
(Also, because of him and other decent people of Kazakhstan I would never have spent money on the stupid Borat film. No one deserves their proud heritage mocked so crudely.)
Oh, we Americans mock ourselves pretty thoroughly, though the real Kazakhs remind me of some of our own Western characters more than mountain hillbillies.
But to have a transplanted Brit do it is pretty tacky, and I don't think he has the stones to try the same sort of thing with his little Muslim brothers. Of course if the appearance of *Borat, the Messenger of Allah* comes anytime soon, I'll happily go see it.
Russian Arkancide.
Good find!
I understand that Russia is trying to extradite Berezovsky.
This could all be an attempt to make Putin look bad so
he can stay in UK.
The handling of this Polonium is so sloppy it would hardly
be an FSB operation.
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