Here’s an interesting article Alexander Litvinenko wrote on how the Kremlin milked 9/11.
More Lies from Russian Terrorists
By Alexander Litvinenko
One month before the 9/11 attacks, the influential Time Magazine published an article about Putin’s connections with Russian crime syndicates. Just one month later, after the terrorist attacks, the same magazine would call the Russian president “a reliable friend and partner of the United States”.
What made Russia and the US into allies was Putin’s telephone call to President Bush just 30 minutes after the 9/11 tragedy. Had Putin been sitting near his telephone and waiting for the right time?
So, who won from the 9/11 terrorist attacks? Afghan Taliban? Western democracies? Perhaps, Saddam Hussein, who is on trial now? Only one political force – Putin and his KGB – benefits from international terrorism, both inside and outside Russia. After the 9/11 attacks and following anti-terrorist hysteria, the KGB re-gained its power at home and influence at the internaional stage, not to mention the sky-high oil prices.
Long ago, Sudoplatov has revealed that the Middle East terrorism was part of the KGB’s “oil war” against the West. This war is still going on.
These days, Russian special services organised another performance, with their own diplomats being taken hostages in Iraq and the terrorists demanding Russia to withdraw from Chechnya immediately. In addition, it is said that the same hostage-takers also captured two American soldiers.
The Russian media immediately promoted the Iraqi terorists’ demands all over the world. The question is: why did the same media remained silent when a similar demand – to stop the war in Chechnya – was made by the hostage-takers in Beslan school? What is the diference?
Oddly enough, underdeveloped Russia is now a member of the G7 forum of the most economically developed democracies. Furthermore, the Chechens’ hangman Putin is now its chairman. On the eve of the summit, he desperately needs to show himself as a victim of internaional terrorism. Undoubtedly, the agents of Russian special services in Iraq organise these provocations exactly for this purpose.
Let me remind some statements of Russian officials which were made just after the 9/11 attacks.
“Four of the terrorists who piloted the planes for the terrorist attacks in the US had paticipated in military activities in Chechnya, says Sergey Yastrzhembsky, Russian president’s aide. According to Mr. Yastrzhembsky, the people who sent the terrorists to attack the sky-scrapers had trained them on the basis of Chechen rebels’ experience. The Russian side has already sent the proofs of that to US special services.”
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“A technical description of ‘Boeing-737′ airliner and a manual for pilots were found in a Chechen rebels’ hiding place, the FSB Chechnya Direcorate informs. This hiding place was found by the special services in a house of some women residing in Tsotsin-Yurt, Kurchloi District, Chechnya. A CD kept in this hiding place contaned the aircraft’s description. Besides, eplosives, weapons, ammunition and Wahhabite literature were found in the same hiding place. According to the special services’ information, this hiding plae was organised by the gang led by a notorious terrorist, known as Abdurahman the Small.
Meanwhile, mother of Ahmed al-Hamdi, one of the 9/11 attacks suspect, has confesed that her son had fought in Chechnya. According to her, two months ago her son telephoned her from Chechnya, where he had went without warning his family. The last time she saw Ahmed al-Hamdi was last December, when he visited Saudi Arabia.”
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“Rusian special services possess an achive of Chechen rebels, whose documents show that the rebels received support from Osama bin Laden. According to the documents, wide-scale recruitment of mercenaries to send them to Chechnya is underway in a number of Moslem countries. The rebel leaders Hattab and Shamil Basayev co-ordinate their activities with Osama bin Laden, the number one terrorist and the ideologist of ‘Global Jihad’.
The training of terrorists and sending them to Chechnya is organised through Hezbollah, the Yemenese Moslem Brotherhood, and International Islamic Relief.”
Since September 2001, we still have got no proves of all these Kremlin’s lies. Where are you, Abdurahman the Small, Ahmed al-Hamdi, the 7-feet-tall Chechen nuclear sumbarine commander with a scar on his face who dreams of killing a US admiral, 500 Chechen bodyguards of Osama bin Laden, 300 most desperate Chechen defenders of Baghdad, numerous caves and hiding placs with pilot manuals? Where are all these Sheharezada characters, invented and promoted so well by Lubyanka and the Kremlin?
And, after that, how should we accept another lies of Russian propaganda about Chechen Resistance’s connections to “world terrorism”?
July 4, 2008 at 8:38 pm
[...] Originally Posted by blackdaisies@hotmail.com And this one now dead because of the Plutonium? poisoning. How convenient! Wow. Can you get ANY facts straight? The spy’s name was Alexander V. Litvinenko and he died of polonium 210poisoning, not plutonium poisoning. The funny thing is Litvinenko suspected Russia of at least profiting from 9/11 which is exactly my point. Thanks for pointing him out. Source [...]
August 30, 2009 at 4:55 am
I think Russia had to be involved in 9/11. Simply because no other people could have pulled off some aspects of it. The truthers produce evidence that it was a much bigger affair than just some Arab lunatics. And at first I assumed two or three middle-eastern regimes. And I still think that.
But then the truthers start implying or saying ridiculous things like that it was an inside job. Even more foolishly blaming the Bush administration that had just got to Washington. This is where they lose it and not with the clear evidence of Thermate and controlled demolition.
Surely when Russia was impoverished in the 90’s some of the former KGB’s abilities would have come up for hire.
I’m not talking about Yeltsin here. He would have been largely out of the loop. But it was pretty much thought that the KGB had become a bit of a government within a government. And surely having built up their sleepers, infiltration, and probable smuggling of all sorts of destructive gear into the United States they would be loathe to throw it all away.
With such unparalled ability I would suggest that they would have been up for hire. And once brought in as subcontractors around 1996, when otherwise Russia were authentically friendly with the Americans, nonetheless there is a sort of logic which would have made them in for a penny and therefore in for a tonne.
To demolish these buildings via Thermate and a large strategic explosion at the right time near the lower floors, the gear would have had to have been smuggled in overnight lest it be discovered. This is utterly impossible without the application of former Soviet capabilities infiltrated into the States over decades. Yet nobody put up an investigation into security or cleaning firms. No-one went into a systematic post-tragedy screening of first responders still living but even more some of them alleged now to be dead.
I wonder now if since about late 2002 Russian intelligence are not back in the full-blown subversion business. I would be interested in seeing what other people think.
August 31, 2009 at 3:00 pm
What about PNAC and the new Pearl Harbour? What about Israel?
September 19, 2009 at 8:11 am
The PNAC guys couldn’t have pulled that off and never would have done so. Ridiculous. Its one thing to have conspiracy theories but they have to have some sort of basis in fact and plausibility. Israel has its back up against the wall. Its not going to attack its main supporter in this way and couldn’t keep it a secret in a million years. Plus while they have a few spies about the place they couldn’t hope to pull this sort of thing off.
If we are assuming controlled demolition we are talking about decades of painstakingly sinking agents into places like New York and Washington so you can pull off enourmously complex operations overnight. Israel has no possible need or desire for gargantuan undertakings such as this. A rival superpower does however. And if it was impoverished during the 90’s those long-won capacities could have come up for hire.
Saddam was one of the few people on earth that could have personally allocated a huge sum of money and not anyone else but the recipient every know about it. If the scope of the undertaking was as big as I’m imagining the list of suspects is really very short. Could Netanyahu or Richard Perle keep this sort of thing a secret? Of course not. They couldn’t so much as brainstorm this up in a group of more than 3 people as a joke but that it would eventually get out. This is despite the fact that these are very good people.
The list of plausible suspects is not long. And the fellow on that list is good at Judo, pretty short, appears to wax his chest, and in retrospect appears to be linked to other crimes involving the bombing of buildings.
It was like this with the Kennedy shooting. The shooter was known and it was only a matter to see if he had any encouragement. He was a communist. A former Russian defector. He had just been to the Cuban embassy in Mexico City. In retrospect it was known that Castro had been the target of about 7 attempted assassinations by Bobby Kennedy. Krushchev, a mass-murdering psychopath had been humiliated by Jack in front of the world.
We had known murderers and assassins with a motive that could have given the shooter some sort of encouragement or perhaps not. But then every conspiracy theory in the world comes out in an explosion of implausibility and gives the only plausible conspiracy, if indeed there was one, all the cover it needed.
Saddam was also the subject of assassination attempts under Clinton. Thats the sort of thing that leads to the development of rash undertakings of the sort that cannot be turned off when the need for them is no longer there.
I’m thinking Saddam instigation, approval and assistance from Saud and Iranian intelligence. And what was meant to be a tiny subcontracted role to ex KGB that likely only Saddam would have known about.
And then the logic of the thing leading to the Russian spooks coming through with more than what they were paid for.