Putin Orders Special Services to Get “al-Qaeda in Iraq”

Kurt Nimmo | June 30 2006

If we are to believe the line fed to us by the corporate media, “al-Qaeda” abducted and killed Russian embassy staff in Iraq earlier this month, never mind that if this is true Osama’s branch of the “insurgency” consists of political retards, as killing the Russians does absolutely nothing to further the resistance against U.S. occupation.

“Four Russian embassy workers were abducted June 3 after an attack on their car in Baghdad’s Mansour neighborhood,” reports MosNews. “A fifth Russian was killed in the incident. The captives include the embassy’s third secretary, Fyodor Zaitsev, and three other staffers: Rinat Agliulin, Anatoly Smirnov and Oleg Fedoseyev.”

In response to this senseless attack, “Vladimir Putin has ordered Russian special services to find and kill the criminals” responsible, in other words “al-Qaeda in Iraq,” a documented Pentagon black op pseudo-gang designed to discredit the legitimate resistance and deluge Americans with scary images of al-Zarqawi terrorists determined to chop off heads and blow up Shia mosques.

It will be interesting to see what comes of this effort. It should be noted, however, that Russia is basically the flip side of the United States, an authoritarian police state engaged in covert dirty tricks both abroad and at home.

“Russian operations in other countries are wrapped in secrecy, but in 2004 a court in the Middle East state of Qatar convicted two Russian intelligence officers for killing Chechen terrorist leader Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev,” MosNews continues. “After serving some time in Qatar jail both men were handed over to Russia which claimed they will continue to serve their life sentences…. At the trial, the judge said the plot to assassinate Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev was carried out with the approval of the ‘Russian leadership’ and coordinated between Moscow and the Russian Embassy in Qatar,” a modus operandi similar to that employed by the CIA, or more specifically (in regard to targeted assassination in foreign countries), the Israeli Mossad.

According to the lap dog United Nations, Yandarbiyev had “suspected links to al-Qaeda,” in other words the possibility exists he was connected to Pentagon intelligence operations. It is a well established fact the CIA and U.S. intelligence have aggressively midwifed terrorism, as noted by B. Raman, writing for the Asia Times Online:

The various pan-Islamic terrorist groups [in Chechnya] are estimated to have a total strength of about 6,000, including a large number of foreign mercenaries. There are widely varying estimates of the strength of the foreign mercenaries, ranging between 200 (Western estimate) and 1,100 (Moscow’s). The foreign mercenaries, many of them trained by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the first Afghan war of the 1980s through Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) for use against Soviet troops, come from countries such as Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Jordan, the Lebanon, Indonesia and China (Xinjiang).

As Michel Chossudovsky explains, the “two main Chechen rebel armies (respectively led by Commander Shamil Basayev and Emir Khattab) estimated at 35,000 strong were supported by Pakistan’s ISI, which also played a key role in organizing and training the Chechen rebel army.” Chossudovsky cites Levon Sevunts, who wrote for the Gazette, Montreal, 26 October 1999:

[In 1994] the Pakistani Inter Services Intelligence arranged for Basayev and his trusted lieutenants to undergo intensive Islamic indoctrination and training in guerrilla warfare in the Khost province of Afghanistan at Amir Muawia camp, set up in the early 1980s by the CIA and ISI and run by famous Afghani warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. In July 1994, upon graduating from Amir Muawia, Basayev was transferred to Markaz-i-Dawar camp in Pakistan to undergo training in advanced guerrilla tactics. In Pakistan, Basayev met the highest ranking Pakistani military and intelligence officers: Minister of Defense General Aftab Shahban Mirani, Minister of Interior General Naserullah Babar, and the head of the ISI branch in charge of supporting Islamic causes, General Javed Ashraf, (all now retired). High-level connections soon proved very useful to Basayev.

As well, the “Chechen cause” (in the guise of the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya) is supported by the neocons, including “Richard Perle, the notorious Pentagon adviser; Elliott Abrams of Iran-Contra fame; Kenneth Adelman, the former US ambassador to the UN who egged on the invasion of Iraq by predicting it would be “a cakewalk”; Midge Decter, biographer of Donald Rumsfeld and a director of the rightwing Heritage Foundation; Frank Gaffney of the militarist Center for Security Policy; Bruce Jackson, former US military intelligence officer and one-time vice-president of Lockheed Martin, now president of the US Committee on Nato; Michael Ledeen of the American Enterprise Institute, a former admirer of Italian fascism and now a leading proponent of regime change in Iran; and R James Woolsey, the former CIA director who is one of the leading cheerleaders behind George Bush’s plans to re-model the Muslim world along pro-US lines,” writes John Laughland of the British Helsinki Human Rights Group.

Allegations are even being made in Russia that the west itself is somehow behind the Chechen rebellion, and that the purpose of such support is to weaken Russia, and to drive her out of the Caucasus. The fact that the Chechens are believed to use as a base the Pankisi gorge in neighboring Georgia—a country which aspires to join Nato, has an extremely pro-American government, and where the US already has a significant military presence—only encourages such speculation. Putin himself even seemed to lend credence to the idea in his interview with foreign journalists…

If Putin indeed sends Russian special services to Iraq in an effort to uncover the “al-Qaeda” operatives putatively held to be responsible for the politically retarded assassination of Russian embassy staff, interesting details may emerge, as interesting and revealing details on British involvement in the black op war against the Iraqi resistance emerged after SAS goons (actually SRS, or Special Reconnaissance Regiment goons) were captured in Basra, disguised as Arabs and driving around in a car loaded up with explosives (see my British “Pseudo-Gang” Terrorists Exposed in Basra, September 24, 2005).

However, as in the case of the Basra story, the corporate media will naturally ignore it and concentrate on meaningless nonsense, for instance, in the current news cycle, a large photo and accompanying story over at the CIA’s favorite newspaper, the Washington Post, on Mexican golfer Lorena Ochoa (or on the same page, a “story” about a pregnant Britney Spears posing nude for Harper’s Bazaar), while the war crime of Israeli IOF troops abducting members of the democratically elected government of Palestine (and no doubt abusing and torturing them as I write this) is nowhere to be found.

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