jihad loving Pigs.
Posted on 06/16/2005 11:03:54 PM PDT by Destro
Russians blame Chechen for US editor's murder
Nick Paton Walsh in Moscow
Friday June 17, 2005
The Guardian
Russian prosecutors say the murder of an American journalist, Paul Klebnikov, shot dead in Moscow last year, was ordered by a Chechen separatist angered by the reporter's negative portrayal of him - and have declared the case closed.
Khodzh-Ahmed Nukhayev, a former official in the separatist government, paid a gang of Chechens to kill Mr Klebnikov because of a 2003 book critical of Mr Nukhayev, the prosecutor's office said yesterday.
The killing highlighted the dangers faced in Russia by investigative journalists, who are often seen as an irritant to state and business.
Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State, recently repeated US calls for Moscow to investigate the killing "vigorously". Yesterday, Mr Klebnikov's brother, Michael, said he feared that "political motives" might have interfered with the investigation, and insisted that prosecutors back up their claim with evidence.
Mr Klebnikov, 41, the son of Russians who emigrated to the United States, was editor of Forbes magazine's Russian version. He wrote several books, including Conversations with a Barbarian which was largely based on interviews in 2000 with Mr Nukhayev.
A statement by the prosecutor general's office claimed Mr Nukhayev had hired killers because the book "negatively spoke about [him] and criticised his statements".
Mr Klebnikov was shot four times from a passing car by unknown assailants as he left the Forbes Moscow offices one evening last July.
Alexander Gordeyev, editor of the Russian edition of Newsweek magazine, who rushed from his neighbouring offices to the scene, said that the wounded man had told him he did not recognise his attackers and could not suggest a motive.
Mr Klebnikov was still conscious when an ambulance took him to hospital, and reportedly died when the doors jammed on a lift taking him for emergency surgery.
The prosecutor's office accused a "criminal group" of at least four Chechens - Musa Vakhayev, Kazbek Dukuzov, his brother Magomed Dukuzov, and Magomed Edilsultanov - of carrying out the killing under contract.
The prosecutors said the first two were in custody. The others, and Mr Nukhayev, were on the wanted list.
They also accused the gang of being behind another murder and an extortion racket.
Mr Klebnikov's book was critical of life in rural Chechnya during a brief period of independence between 1997 and 1999. It quoted Mr Nukhayev as saying he had offered mafia-style protection to LogoVAZ, a car dealership run by the tycoon Boris Berezovsky, a staunch critic of the Putin administration and a former Kremlin kingmaker, who has sought political asylum in London.
It also quoted Mr Nukhayev as saying that LogoVAZ had passed money to Chechen rebels. The claims are denied by Mr Berezovsky.
Mr Klebnikov's brother said yesterday: "When Paul wrote the book he did not feel Nukhayev was disappointed." He added that its title referred to the description Mr Nukhayev had given himself.
He said there was "a burden of proof that had to be accepted" by the Russian authorities, and that Ms Rice had given him "her personal assurance that [the US would] see this through to the end".
Chechen involvement is one of several theories surrounding the motive for the murder.
Mr Klebnikov's publisher has said the journalist was preparing a book on the murder in 1995 of a prominent TV journalist, Vladislav Listyev.
Many people speculated that Forbes Russia, which regularly exposed the shady world of Russia's super-rich, had angered someone.
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Oh, I take back the rabid bat attack spree. That must be Bush's fault. Now where can I find my tin-foil wizard's cap.
as is = and is.
Excellent article about US-Russia relations in the Exile and worth reading Destro. Never have I seen such good journalism beside such trash as in the Exile.
http://www.exile.ru/2005-June-03/feature_story.html
man, I am posting that article!
"Prokhanov says he had close ties to Klebnikov...He blames Klebnikov’s death on Russia’s criminal enterprises – which he argues are all tied to Putin’s regime."
Link:
http://www.worldthreats.com/russia_former_ussr/Putins%20Fascism.htm
"In an interview with the newspaper Izvestiya, seven hours before he was killed, Klebnikov compared the charges against Yukos with the behavior of the Sibneft oil company owned by Roman Abramovich, a Putin favorite. He concluded that in all respects - nonpayment of taxes, non-patriotism and political interests - the record of Sibneft was considerably worse than that of Yukos but Sibneft was prospering whereas Yukos was being driven into bankruptcy. The reason was that Khodorkovsky, unlike Abramovich, had demonstrated independence and, by financing opposition political parties, had contributed to political pluralism...The lesson of the Khodorkovsky case has been well learned in Russia. Breaking the law is not serious as long as it is accompanied by political conformity."
Link:
http://www.hudson.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=publication_details&id=3395&pubType=DailyArticles
Did Putin really accuse the US of being behind Beslan? I didnt think my country would stoop so low. BTW, I am moving back to my country after 21 years in Europe, unfortunately. Houston,Texas, capitalism at its worst if you ask me.
"Klebnikov convincingly proved that Russian capitalism is characterized by a complete merger of money with power and that the super-rich oligarchs achieved their positions not due to their entrepreneurial abilities, but because they were anointed by the ruling bureaucracy. In contrast with Eastern Europe, he argued, Russia did not undergo a democratic revolution in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Rather, the communist nomenklatura deliberately deployed the Party's supreme political power to create enormous personal wealth for its individual members and their allies."
Link:
http://www.jamestown.org/publications_details.php?volume_id=401&issue_id=3015&article_id=2368239
Sadly, FR won't allow the post from exile. Pretty much an awesome article though.
And you have a**h*le freepers posting defenses of the oligarchs as Putin tries to end their criminal ways.
Putin may not have ordered Klebnikov shot, but I'm sure he jammed the doors in the elevator!
Putin: Prophet or Provocateur?
(Here's one for the "conspiracy nuts")
Link:
http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/2002/04-08-2002/vo18no07_putin.htm
LOL!
jihad loving Pigs.
I don't get it...are you against peace in Chechnya?
Subversion of language. Like 60s era Leftist protesters asking for peace in South Vietnam as a way to help North Vietnam.
What do you make of this???
06/16/2005
Kulaev Trial Provides New Beslan Details
...According to Kavkazky Uzel, practically all of the living victims of the terrorist attack have reached the conclusion that it was the "the federals" who "destroyed" the children who died in the incident – over half of the 330 people killed. The website quoted the head of the investigative department of the Interior Ministry branch in North Ossetia's Pravoberezhny district, Elbrus Nogaev, as saying that what happened on September 3 "was not a freeing of hostages," but rather a "military operation."
Regina Kusraeva told the court that on the first day of the hostage seizure, one of the hostage takers told the hostages: "Judging by past experience, we suspect that there will be an assault. If the lights go out, everybody lay on the floor, but don't run; they'll kill you." Kusraeva said the terrorists treated the hostages "reasonably" on the first day of the incident, giving them food and allowing them to line up for water. "But on the second day, they told us that they were declaring together with us a dry hunger strike, inasmuch as their demands were not being met," she said. "Then on the third day the assault began. I sat with the children under the window in the assembly hall. There was such heavy [weapons'] fire that I was afraid that it would pierce the walls. Why did that happen? Then one of the terrorists told me: ‘Get out of here; the roof is on fire, you can die.' We ran to the cafeteria; the situation was the same there, and there the militants told us to run out: ‘Now this part of the building will be fired on; get out of here.' Then they forced the hostages to stand on the windowsills, to tear down the drapery and to wave it, to shout [at them] not to shoot. I myself saw how they were shooting from the streets. I sat with the children on the floor, but in one moment I looked and saw a mountain of corpses on the windowsills. Then, an APC [armored personnel carrier] pulled up, three [soldiers] jumped out and point blank began to shoot those hostages who continued to stand on the windowsills. At that moment I was absolutely not scared of the militants; they were not firing at us. The only thing I feared was that they were going to kill them [the terrorists] and then come in the school and shoot all of us."
Link:
http://www.jamestown.org/news_details.php?news_id=121
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