Posted on 09/25/2001 4:06:43 PM PDT by flamefront
"Russia and the Destabilization of the World Financial System"
If you want to understand Russia's strategy in relation to the Sept. 11 attack on America, you have to remember that Russian experts not only predicted the attack, but Kremlin officials took measures to shield Russia's economy from the financial aftermath of the World Trade Center's collapse.
In late June the Russian State Duma hosted a conference "On Measures Providing for the Development of the Russian Economy in the Event of the Destabilization of the World Financial System." The presentation was organized by Dr. Sergei Glazyev, chairman of the Duma Commission on Economic Politics. Toward the end of the hearings a Russian expert on "shadow politics" from the Institute of Macroeconomic Research (operating under the Russian Ministry of Economics), Dr. Tatyana Koryagina, explained that the U.S. dollar would soon be worthless. She said this would happen sometime around Aug. 19.
In a later interview with Pravda, Koryagina was asked how America's economy could possibly suffer a financial collapse "without a war, without missile or bomb strikes." Koryagina answered, cryptically, "there are other kinds of weaponry...."
Pravda was curious about Koryagina's Aug. 19 timeline. Again, Koryagina gave a cryptic answer, saying: "The known history of civilization is merely the visible part of the iceberg. There is a shadow economy, shadow politics and also a shadow history, known to conspirologists."
Referring specifically to the shadow forces that would bring America to its knees, Koryagina explained: "One must take into account ... the religious component, while predicting the development of the present financial situation."
Pravda's interviewer was baffled. "Still, I don't understand what could be done to this giant country [America] whose budget is calculated in the trillions of dollars."
Koryagina then replied in chilling and direct terms: "It is possible to do anything to the U.S. ... whose total debt has reached $26 trillion." A few sentences later, The Russian analyst explained, "The U.S. has been chosen as the object of financial attack because the financial center of the planet is located there. The effect will be maximal. The strike waves of economic crisis will spread over the planet instantly, and will remind us of the blast of a huge nuclear bomb."
When pressed again about the date of Aug. 19 by the Pravda interviewer, Koryagina replied: "Some fluctuation in this date is possible. Serious forces are acting against those who are now preparing the attack on the United States."
As a result of Koryagina's expert testimony before the Duma conference, Russia adopted gold coinage as legal tender on July 10, urging state enterprises and citizens to divest themselves of U.S. dollars (as the dollar would soon be worthless). According to Koryagina and others, the Russian ruble would soon become the reserve currency for Eurasia. As preposterous as this sounds, as full of wishful thinking as it undoubtedly is, we are now witnessing a market crash in the United States. Koryagina and the Russian Ministry of Economics were prescient.
Are we to believe this was a "lucky guess"?
Koryagina's testimony forces us to understand what we have previously refused to accept. Russian organized crime (along with terrorism) emerged out of a totalitarian police state. This state has created a global shadow economy. It has created shadow political forces -- bin Laden among them. After all, who let these criminals out of the camps and prisons of the Soviet Union? Who opened Chechnya to bin Laden's gang? Who facilitated bin Laden's network?
In a land where the secret police are the supreme criminals, organized crime itself inevitably becomes a branch of official activity. This fact has been amply documented in the work of Joseph D. Douglass, Jr., author of "Red Cocaine: the Drugging of America."
Here we find the keys to the shadow economy. Americans need to understand the relationship between Russian organized crime and Islamic terrorism. The laundering of money, the trafficking in drugs, the corruption of officials, the pathways for smuggling arms -- are the same for criminals as they are for terrorists. And this has to be understood in terms of Moscow's strategy of global economic sabotage.
Perhaps the clearest evidence of the interrelationships between organized crime, terrorism and the Russian security services, comes to us from Chechnya -- where crime and terrorism were combined to bring about a war that was "made to order." Even more intriguing, it was a war that helped to catapult the head of the security services -- Vladimir Putin -- into the Russian presidency.
Consider a new book, entitled "The FSB Blows Up Russia." The authors not only allege that Russia's security services use organized crime to carry out assassinations and other clandestine operations, but the FSB (previously, the KGB) was behind the 1999 terrorist bombings that left hundreds of Russians dead. Written by former FSB Lt. Col. Aleksandr Litvinenko and historian Yurii Felshtinskii, this astounding work is seconded by many investigators and students of the 1999 events. All of this provides a striking contrast to the Sept. 11 strikes in America.
Consider the deeper implications.
Russia's security services hold mastery in the spheres of intelligence and organized crime. This is a fact which has been amply demonstrated by spectacular Russian penetrations of the FBI and CIA -- notably, in the case of Aldrich Ames and the more recent arrest of Robert Hanssen. Using sophisticated deception techniques, controlled opposition movements, together with significant penetrations of foreign intelligence services, the Russian strategists can manipulate wars and revolutions across the map. And they can also effectively sabotage financial institutions by using shadowy forces -- terrorists and criminals.
Taking all of this into account, it now appears that the Russian security services set up an alibi for themselves vis-à-vis Osama bin laden, who they claim is the mastermind behind the Chechin terrorists. In doing this the Russian strategists put the appearance of enmity between themselves and the bin Laden network. Under close examination this enmity may be something of a "Potemkin village" (i.e., a facade meant to fool tourists).
What deserves greater attention, in terms of appreciating Russian trickery , is a startling interview with Chechin Mufti Akhmed-Khadzhi Kadyrov, which appeared two years ago in a London-based newspaper, "Al-Sharq al-Awsat." Kadyrov, now a leading figure in Russian-occupied Chechnya, stated that Russian Prime Minister Sergei Stepashin armed and supplied the Islamist forces that invaded Dagestan, triggering the Chechin war in the summer of 1999.
Kadyrov called on Chechins to make peace with Russia because Chechnya's war leaders were (he intimated) Russian agents involved in a grand provocation. Because of Kadyrov's statements, Chechin President Aslan Maskhadov named him "public enemy number one" in the breakaway province. It was a meaningless pronouncement to Kadyrov's way of thinking, because Maskhadov was nothing but a double agent working for the Russian General Staff.
"If Russia really wanted to," said Kadyrov about the appearance of Arab terrorists in Chechnya, "not a single foreigner could have infiltrated into Chechnya or extended a single dollar to it."
As for the gangsterism and kidnappings that plagued Chechnya and adjoining regions since Chechin independence: other observers pointed to clear evidence of FSB-sponsored provocations. The work of French journalist Anne Nivat, the aforementioned work of Litvinenko and Felshtinskii, support this claim. "People who have such information about the FSB are in no hurry to talk about it," said Felshtinskii about this underlying reality. "We don't know how much information is still hidden. I think the ... murders, kidnappings, and special FSB departments -- is just the tip of an enormous iceberg. It's difficult to imagine how [much information] there is to be found."
"Indeed," said Mufti Kadyrov in his January 2000 interview, "armed gangs did show up [in Chechnya]." But who was behind these armed gangs? "Some people link this thing to the special services in Russia," stated Kadyrov.
It is hard for Americans to grasp the Byzantine deviousness of Moscow's political methods. But for those who deal with Moscow on a daily basis, the truth is easier to grasp. "This is not a jihad," warned Kadyrov in reference to the Chechin War, "it is rather a deception."
A more accurate word is "provocation" -- an incitement to act in a way that invites crushing repressive measures. We should not be naive about the way things work in the Russian Federation, which is led by a KGB officer named Vladimir Putin. One has to ask the question: has there been collusion between the Kremlin and the Chechin rebel leaders? "An agreement may have been reached with Moscow in this regard," offered Kadyrov. "I openly said so during my first meeting with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in the presence of six north Caucasian muftis."
Kadyrov confronted Putin with the fact that his predecessor, Sergei Stepashin, armed the rebels in Dagestan in order to start the war. The Chechin minced no words. Your people are behind this, Kadyrov told Putin.
And what did Putin say in reply?
"We actually made mistakes," Putin allegedly told the mufti, claiming the initial provocation had spiraled out of control. But is this the real explanation -- or an attempt to mask a deeper design?
Kadyrov built his present career and survival on properly understanding how Russia conducts its political business. As Kadyrov said about the Kremlin's logic: "[the rebels] were not stopped [in Dagestan] because some parties wanted to use this thing as a pretext."
But it was more than a pretext. It was also an alibi.
In the light of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, we need to consider the possibility of an even greater design in the 1999 Chechin outbreak. Insofar as Osama bin Laden was allegedly behind the 1999 terror bombings in Russia, geopolitical analysts should consider the possibility that the events of August-September 1999 were intended to camouflage the Kremlin's involvement in a future act of economic sabotage and terrorism against the United States.
This is a notion many Western analysts will never accept. These same analysts, to be sure, have ignored the testimony of Dr. Tatyana Koryagina before the State Duma. They have ignored the words of Mufti Kadyrov. They have bypassed the research of Douglass, Litvinenko and Felshtinskii (among others). None are so blind as those that will not see. The evidence is there, the facts cry out for explanation.
The treacherous tactics of Moscow, on which a vast totalitarian empire has long depended, are real and not fictitious. The Russian game is an old one, played by despots for thousands of years.
Russia's use of organized crime, terrorism and controlled opposition movements needs to be fully comprehended by Western analysts before they can appreciate the true significance of the Sept. 11 attack on America. Connected with this, there is one more tidbit which smells of Kremlin stagecraft. On Sept. 18 the Russian media reported the discovery, in Chechnya, of captured Islamist documents which included instructions for flying a Boeing passenger jet, along with pilot flight simulators and a list of airports taken off the Internet. These incriminating documents were allegedly found by the Russian special services in a hidden Chechin weapons cache that also included grenade launchers and "other weapons." The BBC Monitoring Service, puzzling over this revelation from Russia, wondered: "Why would a field commander [in Chechnya] need documents like these ones?"
Good question.
© Jeffrey R. Nyquist, September 24, 2001
Also see: The Sudan-Iraq-Afghanistan Alliance: and the Russian Connection - America's Enemies Unveiled
It would explain much about him.
HOLY S--T!!!! Maybe Russia controls the US..... I mean according to this guy, they can practically manipulate anything..... Now it is finally revealed, Bush works for the FSB!!!! He is a double agent.... WOW... Call Maxwell Smart (agent 86) and Inspector Gadget.....
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