Kremlin puppets and how they work

While George W. Bush and Al Gore argued about how to spend America's budget surplus, U.S. crude inventories were falling as oil prices continued upward. At the same time, the world's stock markets reacted negatively. Yesterday's Nikkei Stock Average fell 467.74 points, the lowest close in 19 months. U.S. stocks also continued to fall. As these words are being written, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has dipped below 10,000 for the first time in several months. All this is happening as Israelis line up at gas mask distribution centers, preparing for a possible chemical missile attack from the leading mad dictator of the Middle East. Beyond these outward signs, however, it is all part of a huge puppet show. We see the puppets, animated on the world stage, but we ought to consider who the puppet masters are.

Consider the semi-puppet madman in Baghdad, who has sent a powerful armored division -- made up of Russian-built tanks -- to the Jordanian border. The Iraqis want a way into Israel so they can destroy the hated enemy. It is all very theatrical, of course. Several days ago, Saddam Hussein requested an attack corridor into Israel. But even an elite Iraqi armored division is not very dangerous. What is needed, in the last analysis, is an atomic bomb or a missile carrying weaponized smallpox. But Iraq has been damaged by American and British bombs. Consequently, it is difficult for Saddam Hussein to mount a nuclear or biological attack on Israel. Arms control inspectors spent years in his country, disrupting vital efforts to build weapons of mass destruction. So other countries had to be used for this purpose.

Iran is of special importance in this matter, because Russia has been helping Iran to develop its nuclear capability. After all, Iran would like to be the first Islamic country to drop an atomic bomb on Israel. In fact, the Russians told Vice President Al Gore about their program to assist Iran in 1995. On Tuesday Bill Gertz reported that the Washington Times had obtained a classified letter sent by Russia's prime minister to Gore, instructing the American vice president to withhold information about the Russia-Iran nuclear program from the United States Congress.

And what was Russia's motivation for helping the Iranians? After all, Russia is supposedly fighting Islamic terrorists in Chechnya. How could a country supposedly at war with Islam on one front, conspire to give the Islamics a nuclear device on another front?

Americans should remember that the Kremlin has worked closely with Arab and Islamic terrorists for decades. Russia has supported and assisted terrorist states like Libya and Syria. It has given training and cash to the Palestine Liberation Organization. Russia has always been the first to give aid and comfort to Saddam Hussein in Iraq. Militant Arabists or Islamic extremists have often been found within the Russian camp -- working as virtual puppets of the Kremlin. In fact, Islam's strict moral code makes it easy for Russian intelligence services to penetrate Islamic countries and recruit agents, because sin is not taken lightly in such countries, and the KGB has always been good at creating thick files on people with something to hide. Such files usually assure a lifetime of loyalty to Moscow. And such loyalty, based on the law of self-preservation, is the only sure foundation for a puppet and his puppet master.

One chief example should serve to illustrate. In 1970 the Kremlin became interested in an obscure Arab construction engineer and collector of racecars, named Rahman al-Qudwa. Evidence shows, contrary to later claims, that this "construction engineer" was an Egyptian, born in Cairo during the summer of 1929. Rahman graduated from the University of Cairo and served as an officer in the Egyptian Army during the 1956 Suez campaign. Later he set up a business in Kuwait and made a fortune. He then entered politics, founding a hopelessly small terrorist organization.

According to the former head of Romanian intelligence, Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa, one of the highest ranking communist defectors of all time, Rahman al-Qudwa became an important political ally of the communist bloc following the death of Egypt's president, Gamal Abdul Nasser, in 1970. Gen. Pacepa's account of Rahman's intimate relations with the communist bloc is related in a book entitled "Red Horizons." As it happens, Pacepa tells us that the communists trusted Rahman because he was a voracious homosexual. This alone made him a workable Kremlin puppet, because once the Romanian intelligence services had taped Rahman's sex sessions with men and boys, he was completely in their hands. Afterwards, Rahman's friendship for the communist bloc would be permanent -- if he valued his growing popularity in the Arab world.

Rahman al-Qudwa is better known as Yasser Arafat, the chairman of the PLO since 1968 and the president of the Palestinian Authority -- which is now at war with Israel. According to Gen. Pacepa's account, communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu ordered his people to bring Arafat over to Romania. In late 1970 the chief of Romanian intelligence in Egypt, Gen. Constantine Munteanu, arrived in Bucharest with Arafat in tow. Munteanu had gathered an extensive file on Arafat, which characterized the PLO leader as "so much cleverness, blood, and filth all together in one man." Pacepa says that this was Munteanu's "standard definition of Arafat."

Given Gen. Munteanu's extensive file, Arafat could not exactly refuse the communist's "friendly" overtures. There is little question that Arafat is fanatically devoted to destroying Israel, and would sell his soul to the devil to gain his devilish ends. Therefore, a compact between Arafat and the Soviet Union via communist Romania was not something that violated any sacred Islamic rule in Arafat's heart. Arafat is no Moslem. His fanaticism is completely secular. But since he operates within the Islamic world, he must sometimes appear as a would-be Muslim liberator.

The KGB and its successor services have gathered files on Arab leaders. Secret sin is rampant, because men -- especially powerful men -- are subject to more than the usual temptations. Sin is also extensive in the Christian world, and we have yet to understand the peculiar vulnerabilities of the United States in this regard. One of the reasons the dirt on our politicians is often kept from the public with great success, is because so many are dirty. There exists, in this country, a virtual "conspiracy of silence" with regard to official corruption. We should not be surprised if the same logic applies to the Arab world as well. But since the Arab world is more corrupt than the U.S., it is even more vulnerable to Moscow.

Sexual deviancy is only one sin. There are many other sins, as well. When Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin told Vice President Gore about Russian nuclear assistance to Iran he was tempting Gore to compromise himself. Gore had to choose between angering his Russian friends or obeying U.S. law and informing Congress. The alternatives were not attractive to a liberal American politician. Gore had to choose between his friendship for Russia and his oath of office. It seems, contrary to his statement during Tuesday night's debate, that Gore chose to break his oath of office.

On Tuesday congressional leaders asked for hearings into Gore's secret relationship with Russia's former prime minister. Consider how much trouble Gore got himself into with a simple exchange of information. In a classic move, Chernomyrdin asked Gore to break U.S. laws requiring that he report Russia's nuclear proliferation to Congress. It is typical of KGB agents to ask for these "little favors." After a certain number of such favors the Kremlin owns you. Then you are paralyzed, and cannot act against Russia in any meaningful way. If Americans want to know why our politicians are typically so weak in their dealings with Russia, here is the reason.

There is nothing inconsistent in Russia's assistance to Iran, which is simply a way for them to mess with us. And there is nothing inconsistent with asking the U.S. vice president to break the law. The Russians have everything they need to make puppets out of those who start wars in the Middle East, and those who are responsible for American policy.

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J.R. Nyquist, a WorldNetDaily contributing editor and a renowned expert in geopolitics and international relations, is the author of "Origins of the Fourth World War." Visit his news-analysis and opinion site, JRNyquist.com.

Once more for the some of the dimwitted PLO apologists around here...

Munteanu had gathered an extensive file on Arafat, which characterized the PLO leader as "so much cleverness, blood, and filth all together in one man." Pacepa says that this was Munteanu's "standard definition of Arafat."

What is needed, in the last analysis, is an
atomic bomb or a missile carrying weaponized smallpox.

Can smallpox survive a nuclear fireball?

No. It said an atomic bomb OR a missile carrying smallpox. Not all missiles are nuclear. Of course, with smallpox there is no need for anything so complicated as a missile, since an infected blanket will do. The scabs from an infected person, such as a prisoner who has been deliberately infected to produce enough contagious material, can be delivered any number of ways.

Anyone who tried that would have to be extremely desperate and willing to lose it all, because the reaction would be huge.

As it happens, Pacepa tells us that the communists trusted Rahman because he was a voracious homosexual. This alone made him a workable Kremlin puppet, because once the Romanian intelligence services had taped Rahman's sex sessions with men and boys, he was completely in their hands. Afterwards, Rahman's friendship for the communist bloc would be permanent -- if he valued his growing popularity in the Arab world.
Rahman al-Qudwa is better known as Yasser Arafat, the chairman of the PLO since 1968 and the president of the Palestinian Authority -- which is now at war with Israel.

Arghhhhhhh!

"Rahman al-Qudwa is better known as Yasser Arafat"

They got his name wrong: it should be RaTman.

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