{"id":1495,"date":"2007-10-19T03:21:33","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T03:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/911-truth\/russian-press-blasts-anglo-saxon-terrorist-controllers\/1495\/"},"modified":"2007-10-19T03:21:33","modified_gmt":"2007-10-19T03:21:33","slug":"russian-press-blasts-anglo-saxon-terrorist-controllers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/911-truth\/russian-press-blasts-anglo-saxon-terrorist-controllers\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Press Blasts Anglo-Saxon Terrorist Controllers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Webster Griffin Tarpley
\n<\/strong>www.tarpley.net<\/a><\/p>\n

In the wake of the terrorist atrocity at a school in Beslan, North Ossetia, in the Russian Federation, Russian President Vladimir Putin has made remarks to the western press which expose the key role of the US and British governments in backing Chechen terrorism. Whatever Putin\u2019s previous role in events regarding Chechnya, his current political posture is one which sharply undercuts the legitimacy of the supposed Anglo-American \u201cwar on terror,\u201d and which points up the hypocrisy of the Bush regime\u2019s pledge that it will make no distinction between the terrorists and those who harbor them \u2013 since Washington and London are currently harboring Chechens implicated in terrorism. All in all, Putin\u2019s response to Chechen events has, with the third anniversary of 9\/11, brought the collapse of the official 9\/11 myth measurably closer. The hypocritical terror demagogy of Bush and Blair has now been undercut by the head of state of another permanent member of the UN Security Council.
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\nOn Monday September 6, Putin spoke for three and one half hours with a group of some 30 western correspondents and Russia experts at his dacha near Novo Ogarevo outside Moscow. There is no official transcript so far, but accounts have been published in The Guardian, The Independent, and Le Monde. The Washington Post waited until Friday, September 10 to publish an article, but left out the most significant remarks. There are now signs that the Anglo-American press is beginning a new campaign against Putin as a dictator, stressing the obvious in order to silence his attacks on the US-UK sponsorship of Chechen terror.<\/p>\n

Putin, a KGB veteran who knows whereof he speaks, told the gathering that the school massacre showed that \u201ccertain western circles would like to weaken Russia, just as the Romans wanted to destroy Carthage.\u201d He thus suggested that the US and UK, not content with having bested Russia in the Cold War, now wanted to proceed to the dismemberment and total destruction of Russia \u2014 a Carthaginian peace like the one the Romans finally imposed at the end of the Punic Wars in 146 BC, when they poured salt into the land of Carthage so nothing would ever grow there again. (Le Monde, September 8, 2004)<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no link between Russian policy in Chechnya and the hostage-taking in Beslan,\u201d said Putin, meaning that the terrorists were using the Chechen situation as a pretext to attack Russia. According to a paraphrase in Le Monde: \u201cThe aim of that international terrorism, supported more or less openly by foreign states, whose names the Russian president didn\u2019t want to name, is to weaken Russia from the inside, by criminalizing its economy, by provoking its disintegration through propagating separatism in the Caucasus and the transformation of the region into a staging ground for actions directed against the Russian Federation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMr. Putin,\u201d continues Le Monde, \u201creiterated the accusation he had launched in a veiled form against western countries which appear to use double-talk. On the one side, their leaders assure the Russian President of their solidarity in the fight against terrorism. On the other hand, the intelligence services and the military \u2014 \u2018who have not abandoned their Cold War prejudices,\u2019 in Putin\u2019s words \u2013 entertain contacts with those the international press calls the \u2018rebels.\u2019 \u2018Why are those who emulate Bin Laden called terrorists and the people who kill children, rebels? Where is the logic?\u2019 asked Vladimir Putin, and then gave the answer: \u2018Because certain political circles in the West want to weaken Russia just like the Romans wanted to destroy Carthage.\u2019 \u2018But, continued Putin, \u201cwe will not allow this scenario to come to pass.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Le Monde continues: \u201cThis is, according to Putin a bad calculation, because Russia is a factor of stability. By weakening it, the Cold War nostalgics are clearly acting against the interests of their own country.\u201d In Putin\u2019s words: \u201cWe are the sincere champions of this cooperation against terrorism, we are open and loyal partners. But if foreign services have contacts with the \u2018rebels,\u2019 they cannot be treated as reliable allies, as Russia is for them.\u201d (Le Monde, September 8, 2004)<\/p>\n

In Guardian correspondent Jonathan Steele\u2019s account of the meeting with Putin, this is the Russian President\u2019s response to the US and UK on the question of negotiating with the Chechen guerrillas of Aslan Maskhadov: \u201cWhy don\u2019t you meet Osama bin Laden, invite him to Brussels or to the White House and engage in talks, ask him what he wants and give it to him so he leaves you in peace? You find it possible to set some limitations in your dealings with these bastards, so why should we talk to people who are child-killers?\u201d (London Guardian, September 7, 2004)<\/p>\n

As Michel Chossudovsky pointed out some years back, the Chechen leaders Basayev and Al Khattab were trained in the CIA-run camps for Islamic fighters in Afghanistan. In 1999, Putin rode to power on a backlash against Chechen terror which he had in all probability staged himself \u2014 thus judoing a long-standing US-UK capability. The key point is that the Russian press is now openly denouncing London and Washington as centers for terrorist control. This can blow the lid off the 9-11 hoax.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, September 4, Putin had delivered a national television address to the Russian people on the Beslan tragedy, which had left more than 300 dead, over half of them children. The main thrust was that terrorism constitutes international proxy warfare against Russia. Among other things Putin said: \u201cIn general, we need to admit that we did not fully understand the complexity and the dangers of the processes at work in our own country and in the world. In any case, we proved unable to react adequately. We showed ourselves to be weak, and the weak get beaten.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSome people would like to tear from us a tasty morsel. Others are helping them. They are helping, reasoning that Russia still remains one of the world\u2019s major nuclear powers, and as such still represents a threat to them. And so they reason that this threat should be removed. Terrorism, of course, is just an instrument to achieve these gains.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we are dealing with, are not isolated acts intended to frighten us, not isolated terrorist attacks. What we are facing is direct intervention of international terror directed against Russia. This is a total, cruel and full-scale war that again and again is taking the lives of our fellow citizens.\u201d (Kremlin.ru, September 6, 2004)<\/p>\n

Around the time of 9\/11, Putin had pointed to open recruitment of Chechen terrorists going on in London, telling a German interviewer: \u201cIn London, there is a recruitment station for people wanting to join combat in Chechnya. Today \u2013 not officially, but effectively in the open \u2013 they are talking there about recruiting volunteers to go to Afghanistan.\u201d (Focus \u2013 German weekly newsmagazine, September 2001) In addition, it is generally known in well-informed European circles that the leaders of the Chechen rebels were trained by the CIA, and that the Chechens were backed by US-sponsored anti-Russian fighters from Afghanistan. In recent months, US-UK backed Chechens have destroyed two Russian airliners and attacked a Moscow subway station, in addition to the school atrocity.<\/p>\n

Some aspects of Putin\u2019s thinking were further explained by a press interview given by Aslambek Aslakhanov, the Chechen politician who is one of Putin\u2019s official advisors. A dispatch from RIA Novosti reported Aslakhanov\u2019s comments as follows: \u201cThe terrorists who seized the school in Beslan, North Ossetia, took their orders from abroad. \u2018They were talking with people not from Russia, but from abroad. They were being directed,\u2019 said Aslambek Aslakhanov, advisor to the President of the Russian Federation. \u2018It is the desire of our \u201cfriends\u201d \u2014 in quotation marks \u2013 who have probably for more than a decade been carrying out enormous, titanic work, aimed at dismembering Russia. These people have worked very hard, and the fact that the financing comes from there and that they are the puppet masters, is also clear.\u201d Aslakhanov, who was named by the terrorists as one of the people they were going to hold talks with, also told RIA Novosti that the bid for such \u201ctalks\u201d was completely phony. He said that the hostage-takers were not Chechens. When he talked to them, by phone, in Chechen, they demanded that he talk Russian, and the ones he spoke with had the accents of other North Caucasus ethnic groups. (RIA Novosti, September 6, 2004)<\/p>\n

On September 7, RIA Novosti reported on the demand of the Russian Foreign Ministry that two leading Chechen figures be extradited from London and Washington to stand trial in Russia. A statement from the Russia Foreign Ministry\u2019s Department of Information and Press indicated that Russia will put the United States and Britain on the spot about extraditing two top Chechen separatist officials, who have been given asylum in Washington and London, respectively. They are Akhmad Zakayev, known as a \u201cspecial representative\u201d of Aslan Maskhadov (currently enjoying asylum in London), and Ilyas Akhmadov, the \u201cForeign Minister\u201d of the unrecognized \u201cChechen Republic-Ichkeria\u201d (now residing in the USA). (RIA Novosti, September 7, 2004)<\/p>\n

\u201cSCHOOL SEIZURE WAS PLANNED IN WASHINGTON AND LONDON\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

This was the headline of an even more explicit unsigned commentary by the Russian news agency KMNews.ru. This analysis blames the Beslan school massacre squarely on the U.S. and British intelligence agencies. The point of departure here is that Shamil Basayev, the brutal Chechen field commander, has been linked to the attack (something that Putin advisor Aslambek Aslakhanov yesterday said was known to the Russian FSB, successor of the KGB). The article highlights the recent rapprochement of London and Washington with key representatives of Aslan Maskhadov: Britain\u2019s giving asylum to Akhmad Zakayev (December 2003) and the USA welcoming Ilyas Akhmadov (August 2004).<\/p>\n

KMNews: CHECHEN TERROR BOSS ON US STATE DEPARTMENT PAYROLL<\/strong><\/p>\n

KMNews writes: \u201cIn early August, … \u2018Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Chechen Republic-Ichkeria\u2019 Ilyas Akhmadov received political asylum in the USA. And for his \u2018outstanding services,\u2019 Akhmadov received a Reagan-Fascell grant,\u201d including a monthly stipend, medical insurance, and a well-equipped office with all necessary support services, including the possibility of meetings with political circles and leading U.S. media….\u201cWhat about our partners in the \u2018anti-terrorist coalition,\u2019 who provided asylum, offices and money to Maskhadov\u2019s representatives?\u201d asks the Russian press agency. Citing the official expressions of sympathy and offers of help from President Bush, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, and State Department spokesman Richard Boucher, KMNews warns: \u201cBut let\u2019s not shed tears of gratitude just yet. First we should ask: were \u2018Special Representative of the President of CRI\u2019 Zakayev or \u2018Minister of Foreign Affairs of the CRI\u2019 Akhmadov, located in Great Britain and the USA, aware of the terrorist acts that were in preparation? Beyond a doubt\u2026. And let\u2019s also find out, how Akhmadov is spending the money provided by the Reagan-Fascell Foundation. We note: this Foundation is financed by the U.S. Congress through the budget of the State Department! \u201cThus, the conclusion is obvious. Willingly or not, Downing Street and the White House provoked the guerrillas to these latest attacks. Willingly or not, Great Britain and the USA have nurtured the separatists with material, information and diplomatic resources. Willingly or not, the policy of London and Washington fostered the current terrorist acts.\u201d \u201cAs the ancients said, cui bono? Perhaps we are too hasty with such sweeping accusations against our \u2018friends\u2019 and \u2018partners\u2019? Is there a motive for the Anglo-American \u2018anti-terrorist coalition\u2019 to fan the fires of terror in the North Caucasus?\u201d \u201cAlas, there is a motive. It is no secret, that the West is vitally interested in maintaining instability in the Caucasus. That makes it easier to pump out the fossil fuels, extracted in the Caspian region, and it makes it easier to control Georgia and Azerbaijan, and to exert influence on Armenia. Finally, it makes it easier to drive Russia out of the Caspian and the Caucasus. Divide et impera! – the leaders of the Roman Empire already introduced this simple formula for subjugation.\u201d<\/p>\n

KMNews: TERROR SUPPORTERS \u201cON THE BANKS OF THE THAMES AND THE POTOMAC\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

KMNews continues: \u201cAlas, it must be recognized that the co-authors of the current tragic events are to be found not in the Arab countries of the Middle East, but on the banks of the Thames and the Potomac. Will the leadership of Russia be able to make decisions, in this situation?\u201d \u201cYes – if there is the political will. The first thing is that black must be called black, and white, white. It is time to admit that no \u201cantiterrorist coalition\u201d exists, that the West is pursuing its egotistical interests (spreading its political influence, seizing fossil fuels deposits, etc.). Our own coalition needs to be formed, with nations that are genuinely interested in eliminating terror in the North Caucasus. Finally, it is time to change the entire tactics and strategy of counterterrorism measures. It is obvious that catching female suicide bombers on the streets of Moscow or carrying out operations to free children who are taken hostage, are, so to speak, the \u2018last line of defense.\u2019 It is time to learn to make preemptive strikes against the enemy, and it\u2019s time to carry combat onto the territory of the enemy. Otherwise, we shall be defeated.\u201d (Source: KMNews.ru, September 7, 2004)<\/p>\n

Izvestia stresses the probable ethnic composition of the terrorist death squad, and its likely role in exacerbating tensions in the ethnic labyrinth of the Caucasus. Izvestia finds the targeting of North Ossetia in the Beslan incident \u201cnot accidental,\u201d pointing to the danger of \u201cirreversible consequences\u201d for interethnic relations between Ossetians, Ingushis and Chechens. \u201cRussia is now facing multi-vectored threats along the entire Caucasus,\u201d the paper writes. (Izvestia, September 3, 2004)<\/p>\n

In the wake of Putin\u2019s speech, prominent Russian commentators discussed the recent terror campaign against Russia in terms of a possible \u201ccasus belli\u201d for a new East-West conflict. Several commentaries have reaffirmed Putin\u2019s key statement, that international terrorism has no independent existence, but functions only as \u201can instrument,\u201d wielded by powerful international circles committed (in part) to the early destruction of Russia as a nuclear-armed power.<\/p>\n

A commentary in the widely read Russian business news service RosBusinessConsult (RBC) was entitled \u201cThe West is unleashing Jihads against Russia.\u201d In language seldom heard since the end of the Cold War, RBC charges that the recent wave of terror attacks against Russia, beginning with the sabotage of two airplanes and a terror bombing at a Moscow subway station, and culminating so far in the Beslan attack, was immediately preceded by what RBC calls \u201can ultimatum from the West,\u201d for Russia to turn over the Caucasus region to \u201cAnglo-Saxon control.\u201d<\/p>\n

ANGLO-SAXON TERROR ULTIMATUM TO RUSSIA FROM THE LONDON ECONOMIST<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cSome days prior to the onset of the series of acts of terrorism in Russia, which has cost hundreds of lives, a number of extremely influential Western mass-media, expressing establishment positions, issued a personal warning to Vladimir Putin, that Russia should get out of the Caucasus, or else his political career would come to an end. Therefore, when the President on Saturday spoke of a declaration of war having been made against Russia, this was not just a matter of so-called \u2018international terrorism\u2019… One week prior to the first acts of terrorism, the authoritative British magazine, the Economist, which expresses the positions of Great Britain\u2019s establishment, formulated the Western position concerning the Caucasus, and above all the policy of the Anglo-Saxon elite, in a very precise manner,\u201d RBC writes.<\/p>\n

CZECH NGO BLOWS UP RUSSIAN TANK; BRITISH EXPERTS TRAIN CHECHEN GANGS<\/strong><\/p>\n

The RBC commentary goes on to cite the Economist of August 19, which contained what RBC characterizes as a virtual ultimatum to Russia. RBC notes that \u201cthe carrying out of such a series of coordinated, highly professional terrorist attacks, would be impossible without the help of qualified \u2018specialists\u2019.\u201d RBC notes that at the end of August one such \u201cspecialist,\u201d working for an NGO based in the Czech republic, was arrested for blowing up a Russian armed personnel carrier. Also, British \u201cexperts\u201d have been found instructing Chechen gangs in how to lay mines. \u201cIt cannot be excluded, that also in Beslan, the logistics of the operation were provided by just such \u2018specialists\u2019,\u201d notes RBC.<\/p>\n

The RBC editorial concludes: \u201cApparently, by having recourse to large-scale terrorist actions, the forces behind that terrorism, have now acted directly to force a \u2018change\u2019 in the political situation in the Caucasus, propagating interethnic wars into Russia. \u201cThe only way to resist this, would be for Moscow to make it known, that we are ready to fight a new war, according to new rules and new methods \u2013 not with mythical \u2018international terrorists\u2019, who do not and never existed, but with the controllers of the \u2018insurgents and freedom fighters\u2019; a war against the geopolitical puppet-masters, who are ready to destroy thousands of Russians for the sake of achieving their new division of the world.\u201d (RBC, September 7, 2004)<\/p>\n

In a related comment, the Chairman of the Duma Foreign Affairs Committee, Dmitri Rogozin, declared in an interview on Sunday September 5: \u201cI think those behind the terrorism are those who would like to see Russia totally discredited as a power…. I think that the aim is to destabilize the political situation in the country and plunge Russia into total chaos.\u201d (Ekho Moskvy, September 6, 2004)<\/p>\n

Western press organs have responded to the school massacre with a campaign to blame, not the terrorists, but the Putin regime and Russian society. This disingenuous policy has further stoked Russian resentment. On September 6, Strana.ru headlined, \u201cWestern Press: The Tragedy Is Russia\u2019s Own Fault,\u201d commenting that \u201cunlike official politicians, journalists do not want to admit that the bombings and hostage-takings in our country are acts of international terrorism.\u201d Another example of this Putin-bashing was the article by Masha Lippman in the Washington Post of September 9.<\/p>\n

A basic reason for the US-UK surrogate warfare against Russia is the great Anglo-Saxon fear of a continental bloc of the type which emerged during the run \u2014 up to Bush\u2019s Iraq aggression. The centerpiece of the continental bloc is the German-Russian relationship. Washington and London fear that Russia will soon agree to accept euros in payment for its oil deliveries. This would not just prevent the Anglo-Americans from further skimming off oil transactions between Russia and Europe. It would represent the beginning of the end of the dollar as the reserve currency of the world, a role which the battered greenback, weakened by Bush\u2019s $500 billion yearly trade deficit and Bush\u2019s $750 billion budget deficit, can no longer fulfill. If Russia moves to the euro, it is expected that the Eurasian giant may be quickly followed by Iran, Indonesia, Venezuela, and other countries. This could put an end to the ability of the US to run astronomical foreign trade deficits, and would place the question of a US return to a production-based economy on the agenda. The oil-euro question is expected to be discussed at the upcoming Russian-German economic summit.<\/p>\n

RUSSIA TO PAY FOR OIL WITH EUROS?<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a half-page article published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and headlined \u201cRealizing the Strategic Partnership,\u201d Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov predicted key progress in the energy sector. Lavrov said that numerous proposals by Moscow on how to expand cooperation in the sphere of future-shaping high-tech branches of the economy will be put on the agenda of the September 11-12 German-Russian economic summit in Hamburg. Russia calls for the development of \u201cmutually beneficial cooperation in aerospace, information technology, telecom, biotechnology, development of new materials, laser technology, and nanotechnology. Lavrov wrote that Russia expects a breakthrough at the Hamburg talks \u2013 which will also deal with the energy sector. (Frankfurter Allgemeine, September 3, 2004)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Webster Griffin Tarpley www.tarpley.net In the wake of the terrorist atrocity at a school in Beslan, North Ossetia, in the Russian Federation, Russian President Vladimir Putin has made remarks to the western press which expose the key role of the US and British governments in backing Chechen terrorism. Whatever Putin\u2019s previous role in events regarding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-911-truth","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}