Kremlin Poison

It appears that the Kremlin has attempted to assassinate Russian defector Alexander Litvinenko, whose warnings to the West have been repeatedly cited in this column.

A former lieutenant colonel of the KGB/FSB, Litvinenko wrote a book titled Blowing Up Russia: Terror From Within. During an interview with Rzeczpospolita in July 2005 he explained that al Qaeda’s number two man, Ayman al-Zawahiri was trained by the FSB (KGB) in Russia along with other al Qaeda leaders. According to Litvinenko, “[there is] only one organization which has made terrorism the main tool of solving political problems.” And that organization, he said, “is the Russian special services.” The KGB trained terrorists all over the world. “The specially trained and prepared agents of the KGB,” said Litvinenko, “have organized murders and explosions, including explosions on tankers, the hijacking of passenger jets, attacks on diplomats, as well as state and commercial organizations worldwide.” Litvinenko added: “The bloodiest terrorists of the world were or are agents of the KGB-FSB. They are well known [like] Carlos Ilyich Ramiros, nicknamed ‘the Jackal,’ the late Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein … [and others].” According to Litvinenko, “All of them were trained by the KGB, received money from there, weapons and explosives….”

It is being reported that Litvinenko was poisoned with thallium, described by the Telegraph (UK) as a colorless and odorless liquid “that is often used to kill rats.” The poisoning occurred in London while Litvinenko was gathering information on the assassination of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Litvinenko has argued that Chechen terrorism is a KGB-inspired provocation used to legitimize Putin’s dictatorship, and that Russia is pretending to fight terrorism with one hand while guiding it with the other. A man brave enough to risk his life to warn others, to lay an accusation against the most dangerous criminals in the world, deserves to be taken seriously. But the fact that his message has been systematically ignored, that no newspaper or politician will discuss his testimony concerning Ayman al-Zawahiri, is a sociological artifact of great significance. The Kremlin’s grand deception strategy has been effective, and there is no danger that the West will figure it out, because the truth is economically inconvenient for politicians and businessmen alike. Things have advanced so far that the Kremlin sees no danger in murdering people outright, as in the days of Stalin. In this way a message is sent to all writers, and all those with bits and pieces of the great puzzle.

The Russian strategy should be obvious by now. We know that China and Iran are being armed with Russian weapons – including Russian nuclear technology. Such moves deserve an explanation, but nobody wants an honest discussion of the problem. Given the economic logic of U.S. statesmanship, a confrontation with Russia is to be avoided. The Left/Right political divide paralyzes any and all realistic analysis because one side of this political divide is incapable of acknowledging a Russian threat while the other has attached itself to claims of victory and the prospect of “open” markets in “former” communist lands. We know that Russia is working to form various alliances with countries like Brazil, India, Venezuela, etc. We know that Russia and China have formed an intimate partnership, that they have conducted joint military exercises, and that China has been cultivating Mexico as a strategic partner. The balance of power is shifting, perhaps decisively, and the results of that shift may soon become apparent to everyone. The Iranian nuclear crisis serves to dramatize this shift. Three years ago President Bush would have bombed Iran. Today he is timid, hesitant and beleaguered. Many of the president’s supporters have turned against him. Perhaps President Bush realizes that a preemptive attack on Iran will divide the United States politically, with further consequences to the Republican Party.

Looking back at the long row of fallen dominoes, from South Africa and the Congo to Venezuela and Germany, the fall of the Israeli domino stands in prospect. The Israelis believe the neutralization of Iran’s nuclear project is essential to Israel’s security. Israeli analysts are already warning that Iran could destroy Israel without launching a single nuclear weapon, because many Israelis will leave Israel if Iran becomes a nuclear power. The morale of the Jewish state would suffer a crippling blow. But the plight of Israel does not move the American public. Just as the American consumer abandoned Vietnam to the Communists, some believe that Israel will be abandoned to the Islamists. Many observers expect that the Americans will not remain loyal to their allies, choosing instead to “cut and run” when things become difficult. After all, it was the Americans who abandoned Southeast Asia. It was the Americans who pushed for the Communist takeover of Rhodesia, and the Communist-ANC takeover of South Africa; and who allowed the Communist victories in Angola and Congo. The African Communists have won the long war for the mineral rich sub-Saharan region. And the Americans don’t care in the least. In fact, we are about to watch the United States Congress cut the legs out from under the government of Colombia as it struggles to contain a growing Communist insurgency.

The suicide of the West is happening before our eyes. From the assassination of Anna Politkovskaya to the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, from the fall of South Africa to the electoral victory of Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua, the same old Communists continue to kill their enemies as they advance from victory to victory. The KGB rules Russia openly, flooding China with weapons, encouraging Iran’s nuclear ambitions, arming Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan, subverting the Western alliance through economics, neutralizing Germany by way of German unification, undermining NATO as one Warsaw Pact country after another joins under false democratic colors. Do the Americans have eyes? Do they have sense?

Yesterday American strategy was based on a false victory. Today the logic of retreat takes hold as the party of retreat takes Congress. In terms of Iran’s WMDs, American politicians see no other choice than to sacrifice Israel to the “peace process.” It will prove to be a slow and grinding death, similar to that of white South Africa. The grim prospect is so real that former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has already compared his country’s fate to that of Czechoslovakia (sold out to appease Hitler). The West will do nothing to punish Vladimir Putin for assassinating and intimidating journalists, for poisoning Alexander Litvinenko. The West will do nothing about the Iranian bomb. The Americans will eventually leave Iraq, and America’s cities will be attacked by nuclear weapons. In this sequence one failure leads to another. Weakness, lack of resolve, stupidity and incompetence add up to defeat.

From outward appearances it would seem that the old Soviet Union has returned. A thing crucified, dead and buried has been resurrected. Four weeks after Vladimir Putin’s re-election, a procession led by the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church arrived at the Church of Christ the Redeemer in Moscow. In keeping with ancient tradition the doors of the church were shut, symbolizing the sealed cave where Christ’s body was placed following crucifixion. “After midnight,” noted Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, “the Orthodox faithful taking part in the procession await the opening of the church doors. The patriarch stands on the steps at their head and is the first to enter the empty temple where the Resurrection of Christ has already occurred.” In due course the Patriarch offered up a prayer, the doors of the Church of Christ the Redeemer were opened and out stepped President Vladimir Putin. If any Christians were present for this ceremony they offered no protest to this blatant sacrilege. The woman who reported this event for the benefit of Western readers has since been assassinated. The KGB defector who was investigating the circumstances of her death has been poisoned (i.e., Litvinenko). The West thinks it an amusing spy story, something out of fiction. But the situation is hardly amusing. As Russian dissident Yuri Yarim-Agaev recently explained to Jamie Glazov of Frontpagemag.com, “That in foreign policy, the U.S. remains for them [Russia] enemy number one, and that they would support anyone who tries to undermine American power whether it be North Korea, Iran, you name it. That in domestic policy they consider their major enemies democracy, human rights, and the free market, and they will try to suppress them by all means, and the bring back under their control most parts of the former Soviet Union.”

Russia is a big player, despite what we’ve been told about “the fall of communism.” The Kremlin now acts boldly, in the open, so that every Russian understands. It is a case of terrorism. It is a case of instilling fear. Writers are being killed, and now intelligence defectors have been targeted. Decisive cards are being played, and the international press, the public and many politicians are clueless.

" I in turn was fed by thier production for years (I lived in USSR) so for me it is very easy to recognise the propagandistic fraud and lugh oon it:))."

It's a shame your views are still hardcore Soviet and defend your Kremlin boss no matter the bleeding obvious.

"My prove of it is that Putin has no motives to do such crimes."

The other voice from Radio Moscow has spoken again. Yes comrade, of course Putin is a saint and would never hurt a fly, never mind those which expose his ruthless agenda.

But Putin approal rate with Russians is the most important thing isn't it true?

You reasoning just doesn't make sense, you Commie plant. Are you saying Berezobski killed those other journalists as well simply to "frame" innocent Putin? Why wouldn't Putin just kill him then?

And what could be gained from "framing" Putin anyways? He's consolidated almost all of the power, he's nationalized the energy industry, to even attempt the assertion that Putin's power hangs in the balance as opposed to resting in an iron grip is ludicrous, not to mention naive and shameful, regardless of how much (former)Russian propaganda you've swallowed.

Maybe to you, but not to us. You see, we are Americans, not Russians. So what is most important to us are our own opinions, not those of foreigners. What Russians approve of or disapprove of is not really what is most important to us.

Let's understand something up front. You do not speak for all Americans. You do not speak for all Freepers. You do not even speak for all conservatives, but only for conspiracy theorists who live in a world of darkness. You call American servicemen traitors, when you never even served one day in any branch of our armed services. Indeed, it is doubtful you even served in the boy scouts. Last month I had a retired American Special Forces Officer tell me he proudly marched in a parade in Red Square in his uniform. Are you going to call him a traitor? Well, that officer just won America's highest award, the Medal of Honor. Who are you to call anybody a traitor? Who are you to call anybody anything?

Please inform all the dimwitted peasants on FR the Russian line on how Syria's Assad clan (another 'former' Soviet client state, Putin supplies with advanced weaponry) had absolutely nothing to do with the assassination of Pierre Gemayel.==

I just wonder who that Pirre Jamel and what he has to do with Russia and Putin?:) Don't you think that you confused here?

Yes comrade, of course Putin is a saint and would never hurt a fly, never mind those which expose his ruthless agenda.==

Putin is not a saint I'm first who tell that but he is not stupid to do the things in which he has absolutely no benefits but just opposite. If you use your brains you should understand that.

Those minions of Berezovskii: Politkovskaya and Litvinenko are fully discredited themselves before russian people when they defended Chechen terorirsts or criminal Berezovskii.
For Putin it is absolutely save just to ignore them whatsoever. With his approval rate about 80% he did it. After all his term will end in 2 years. So for what he should bother?

Are you saying Berezobski killed those other journalists as well simply to "frame" innocent Putin? Why wouldn't Putin just kill him then? ==

Just because he has nothing to gain with it. But Berezovskii has much to gain. After all they all are Berezovskii minions who just got his money and Berezovskii has access to them.
Berezovskii is the master of hoaxes and provocations. He is just known swindler. Putin drove him from Russia when started the investigations of his cheats and frauds. So Berezovskii hates Putin guts and can do everything to undermine him.

What Russians approve of or disapprove of is not really what is most important to us.==

I agree with that. I just emphasize for you Joe that Putin incentives are just to gain approval rate of Russians not Americans. So his actions are for Russia not America. And it is just hypocricy is to critisize him as the foreign leader when he looks after his people interests and ignore yours. It is just the normal behaivior of any foreign leader isn't it right?

"For Putin it is absolutely save just to ignore them whatsoever. With his approval rate about 80% he did it. After all his term will end in 2 years. So for what he should bother?

You have stated you are a Russian and live in Russia, so it's not surprising all this promoting of your government's 'leader', however for all everyone knows on here, you could be employed by your government deliberately spreading disinformation. How about that comrade?==

Yeah yeah:) If I disagree with you then I'm the goverment agent and work for money no wonder you lose me:). Can you suppose that it maybe just your lame argumentation did that you lose?:)

Sir it is cheap to try to attack someone name and character if you lose the discussion. Try to be more thoughtful instead.

Putin does not look after his people's interests. He acts against Russia's interests and ensures Russia's isolation in the world as a terrorist enabler and a dhimmi promoter of islamist jihad. Putin is a criminal thug and a menace to the whole world. Death to the KGB vermin Putin!

No, I don't speak for traitors like you who sold their allegiance to Russia. I only speak for those whose first allegiance is to our own nation, the United States of America. You are perfectly welcome to speak on behalf of all Americans who care more about the opinions of Russians loyal to the Kremlin than Americans loyal to the Republic. Why don't you just go to Russia where you belong and don't come back? Stop stinking up the USA with your disgusting treachery.

Joe, you do not speak for Americans, conservatives, or even Freepers, with your conspiracy theory nonsense. You couldn't even serve one day in our armed services, and yet you yell traitor. Go hang your head in shame for avoiding service.

You are the one who posts links to antisemitic democrat conspiracy theorist Lyndon LaRouche to try and sell your crackpot anti-American conspiracy theories and defend Putins enabling the Ayatollahs and Hizballah to murder Jews and Christians. Take your antisemitic anti-American racism to stormfront, nazi scum.

Firstly, I am not antisemitic. My Lord and Savior was/is a Jew.
Secondly, The best friend I ever had was a Jew.
Thirdly, I posted the aricle from Lyndon LaRouche's website not realizing it was his. That in no way makes me antisemitic, anti-American, a racist, or a nazi.

Your language says everything about your character.

You have also posted the same conspiracy garbage from anti-war.com and other blatantly anti-semitic websites. Then you pretend to be too stupid to know what you are posting. I don't believe a word you say. Go defend Russia's Ayatollah and hizballah comrades elsewhere.

A man who gives nukes to Iran probably has other vices.

Putin lost any conceivable benefit of any doubts about 3 exits back, and everyone on earth knows he is a snake.

Putin is a cheap thug.==

Yeah:) But strangely all these killings happen just in time when Putin was on vists in Europe. But none when he met with Bush or in Asia. Just think over it.
Seems like someone want that each visits of Putin to Europe followed with great scandal.

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