[papatango]

qualquer pessoa minimamente informada sabe que o 11 de setembro foi um false flag attack.

Claro que sim camarada.
Esse é um assunto sem espinhas nenhumas. Não ha qualquer dúvida.

Eles ainda têm o holograma do Bin Laden na Area-51 e utilizaram raios repulsórios titânico-diluentes para deitar abaixo as torres. E a torre 7 isso então é mais que óbvio e até uma criança no dia do nascimento sabe que aquilo foi trabalho da CIA.

Não há qualquer dúvida para qualquer pessoa informada...      

É claro como a água.

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30.08.2013 04:04
DNA test verified Osama bin Laden’s identity - reports

A forensic intelligence laboratory run by the CIA in Afghanistan performed the DNA test of Osama Bid Laden’s body and confirmed his identify back in 2011, revealed intelligence budget documents leaked by the whistleblower Edward Snowden. The Washington Post wrote that results "provided a conclusive match." In May 2011, the Pentagon denied having records of these tests, after AP asked for disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act. In their request, the press service asked for DNA and facial recognition tests disclosure of Bin Laden’s corpse as well as all media material captured during the raid on bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, the death certificate and other records related to the May 2011 mission.

esqueceram-se de falar da area 52

Area 51 officially acknowledged, mapped in newly released documents
By Laura Koran, CNN
August 17, 2013 -- Updated 0104 GMT (0904 HKT)

(CNN) -- Area 51 has long been a topic of fascination for conspiracy theorists and paranormal enthusiasts, but newly released CIA documents officially acknowledge the site and suggest that the area served a far less remarkable purpose than many had supposed.
According to these reports, which include a map of the base's location in Nevada, Area 51 was merely a testing site for the government's U-2 and OXCART aerial surveillance programs. The U-2 program conducted surveillance around the world, including over the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
Area 51, about 125 miles northwest of Las Vegas, is synonymous in popular culture with government secrecy, and many have theorized that it holds the answer to one of the greatest questions plaguing mankind: Are we really alone in the universe?

But the newly released documents make no mention of alien autopsy rooms or spaceship parking lots.
This information will be disappointing to some, who have come to view the area as a mecca of sorts for alien encounters.
For these true believers, the existence of alien spacecraft at Area 51, and the government's attempts to cover up their trace, is irrefutable and has been since reports of Unidentified Flying Objects -- or UFOs -- began to emerge from the Nevada desert in the middle part of the 20th century.

The map and other documents were released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request submitted by Jeffrey T. Richelson, a senior fellow at the National Security Archives, in 2005.
 Area 51 Revealed FBI memo details flying saucers, aliens UFO welcome center waits for green guys
Richelson submitted the request as part of his continuing study of aerial surveillance programs and told CNN that he was not given an explanation of why the new documents were less redacted than previous versions declassified by the agency.
He points out, however, that the location of Area 51 was not a particularly well-kept secret. Its location appears in books on aerial surveillance and is widely referenced in popular culture.
In fact, the map that was released in the CIA documents mirrors the one that appears after a simple Google Maps search for "Area 51."
Area 51 has also been referenced in government documents in the past, though this newest release is the first that acknowledges its existence and location in a purposeful way.
Richelson told CNN he believes this could signal a dramatic change in the government's willingness to declassify information about the famed base, meaning even more information could come out about Area 51 in the future.
The release of these reports seem to put the theories about aliens and flying saucers to rest for the time being, although they may not be enough to silence the true believers.
At least they still have Roswell, right?

[Cabeça de Martelo]

PT, a questão é a seguinte, esses campos podem ter sido pensados à muito, no entanto os EUA nos anos 70 eles não estavam em estado de emergência à 12 anos e não tinham um "Patriot Act". Essa lei foi aprovada sem os Senadores e Congressitas terem acesso a todo o documento e que na prática anula praticamente todas as liberdades e assegura um controlo só dado em ditaduras às autoridades e ainda por cima sem qualquer tipo de controlo superior.

Não penses que os criticos de tudo o que tem sido feito são apenas da direita conservadora, a esquerda também está saturada com toda esta situação, na verdade eu acho que todo o povo Norte-Americano está cheia disto tudo. Acredito que lá como cá queixam-se da falta de alternativas.

Ainda bem que falas do Katrina, eis uma situação limite em que tudo falhou, onde as autoridades andaram muito ocupadas a tirar as armas à população e não tanto a tentar salvá-las e onde foram usados PMC (Blackwater, SOC, Armor Group, Steel Foundation, Dyncorp, etc). Em Boston eles também lá estavam (Craft International,) e não entrando em teorias da conspiração, porquê usar PMC internamente? Os EUA tem Força de Policias que nunca mais acaba, tem a CIA, a NSA, a..., enfim um horror de meios que poucos países podem-se gabar e no entanto precisam de PMC para trabalhar dentro de fronteiras?! Não achas estranho? Pelos vistos os norte-americanos acham, de tal maneira que são os maiores apoiantes dessas ditas teorias. Dos vários Norte-Americanos que tenho falado a maior parte são de esquerda (Democratas) e a esmagadora maioria acredita que o 11 de Setembro foi planeado pela familia Bush e que os EUA estão no caminho de se tornarem uma ditadura policial. Se é estranho? É, mas só estou a escrever o que transmitem-me.

Talvez eu tenha falado com os Norte-Americanos errados...

[Cabeça de Martelo]

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GOD BLESS AMERICA

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uma coisa eu sei, nao foi o KGB.
o JFK era um utopico, cometeu o pecado capital. pensava que mandava.

como todos sabemos que foi o trapalhao do Oswald que no fatidico dia 22 de novembro estava inspirado ficam alguns links terriveis mantidos pelos terriveis conspiradores russos


http://rt.com/op-edge/john-kennedy-assa ... rsary-889/

http://consortiumnews.com/2013/11/19/wh ... ce-points/

http://educate-yourself.org/cn/jfk50yea ... ov13.shtml

http://www.doewatch.com/jfkultimate/

http://mylogicoftruth.wordpress.com/201 ... k-killers/

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a voz da razao

[nelson38899]

Não querendo defender os americanos, acho esta imagem uma demagogia tremenda. Os russos mataram não sei quantos milhões de pessoas nos gulag. Os chineses fazem isso todos os dias com os seus cidadãos que nascem com o sexo feminino.  Eles também apoiam uma ditadura como a Coreia do norte que mata cidadãos apenas por mostrar as pernas.   Os iranianos financiam o terrorismo no Líbano, Iraque,  Egipto e  Afeganistão. A Venezuela anda a criar  leis sem sentido nenhum, apenas para esconder a fome que se começa a fazer sentir neste país, anda também apoiar terroristas como as FARCs.

E agora vem me dizer que os americanos são o mal do mundo??

[Duarte]

Não querendo defender os americanos, acho esta imagem uma demagogia tremenda. Os russos mataram não sei quantos milhões de pessoas nos gulag. Os chineses fazem isso todos os dias com os seus cidadãos que nascem com o sexo feminino.  Eles também apoiam uma ditadura como a Coreia do norte que mata cidadãos apenas por mostrar as pernas.   Os iranianos financiam o terrorismo no Líbano, Iraque,  Egipto e  Afeganistão. A Venezuela anda a criar  leis sem sentido nenhum, apenas para esconder a fome que se começa a fazer sentir neste país, anda também apoiar terroristas como as FARCs.

E agora vem me dizer que os americanos são o mal do mundo??

É favor não introduzir lógica, nem imparcialidade nesta discussão, senão caiem as teorias todas por terra..  

[Cabeça de Martelo]

Verdade seja dita, os EUA está  longe de ser o único país a apoiar golpes de estado, guerras civis e movimentos de libertação/terroristas/etc.

O que destingue-os é o número, devem ser o país que mais apoiou e fomentou essas coisas em todo o mundo no pós 2.ª GM.

Ex:

-Angola - apoio à UPA

Resultado:

Depois deste apoio Norte-Americano, podemos falar do apoio dos "não-alinhados e finalmente do Bloco de Leste/países comunistas, mas quem começou isto tudo foi o Kennedy!

Já fui bastante pró-americano, mas com o passar dos anos, muita coisa que acreditava caiu por terra. Hoje vejo-os como uma super-potência a agarrar-se a tudo e a todos de forma a não se afogar na sua própria lama, a questão é se queremos ou não ser arrastados por eles.

É óbvio que a China está a crescer e poderá muito bem a ser a próxima potência desafiadora do status quo Norte-Americano. Isso vê-se na forma como os EUA estão a transferir enormes recursos humanos e materiais da Europa para os países vizinhos da China. Esse país está cada vez mais agressivo e é provavel que as coisas se tornem ainda mais quentes naquela região a curto/médio prazo, até por causa do que se passa na própria China.

[listadecompras]

Não querendo defender os americanos, acho esta imagem uma demagogia tremenda. Os russos mataram não sei quantos milhões de pessoas nos gulag. Os chineses fazem isso todos os dias com os seus cidadãos que nascem com o sexo feminino. Eles também apoiam uma ditadura como a Coreia do norte que mata cidadãos apenas por mostrar as pernas. Os iranianos financiam o terrorismo no Líbano, Iraque, Egipto e Afeganistão. A Venezuela anda a criar leis sem sentido nenhum, apenas para esconder a fome que se começa a fazer sentir neste país, anda também apoiar terroristas como as FARCs.

E agora vem me dizer que os americanos são o mal do mundo??

Os americanos, o mal do mundo? Com certeza que nao. Eu tenho amigos americanos, como povo sao da gente mais simpatica e porreira que se pode encontrar por ai. Agora se falamos dos decision makers, a conversa ja e outra. Sejamos praticos. Politics is a dirty business. Nao ha ninguem sem telhados de vidro. Assim de repente na America so me lembro do Carter ter tentado trazer a transparencia para a cena politica, a coisa nao correu bem.

Mas repara no que tem sido por exemplo a politica internacional americana na ultima decada. Afeganistao, Iraque,Libia. O Iraque e um pais destruido, a Libia para la caminha e agora estao a querer fazer o mesmo com a Siria. Por alma de quem?  Demagogicamente falando da vontade de perguntar aos decison makers porque nao mandam uns drones para acabar com os terroristas que parasitam pela Siria.  Extremistas islamicos, nao obrigado!!!

E verdade,os sacanas dos russos e que tem vindo agora a falar dessa coisa do direito internacional. Os americanos continuam como sempre com a sua conduta de dois pesos e duas medidas.

Nelson, tou cansado de assistir a mentiras e campanhas de manipulacao. O 11 de Setembro foram os filhos-da-p*** dos taliban,Sadam tinha armas de destruicao macica, o Khadafi era um merdas, (mas andou a limpar o cu ao Sarkozy) Assad gaseou 1400 pessoas inocentes. Entendes?

Por mim se quiseres falar mal da Russia,Irao, China,Coreia do Norte,Venezuela,Cuba, Siria,Palestina and so on estas a vontade.

take care

[nelson38899]

Quanto à Rússia podemos falar do corte de Gás à Ucrânia, o apoio à bielorrussa, a Chechênia a Geórgia e o desaparecimento de muita gente que diz mal do putin. Quanto à guerra colonial os russos andaram de mãos dadas com os americanos. Foi a única vez em toda a guerra fria que os dois andaram juntos.

Vamos ser sérios, tanto a direita (USA) como a esquerda (Rússia)  tem culpas no cartório, pois ambas tentaram mudar líderes em muitos países. Agora entre uma ditadura que tenho agora e a ditadura como é na Venezuela (país apoiado pela Russia), eu prefiro esta de longe.

[nelson38899]

Verdade seja dita, os EUA está  longe de ser o único país a apoiar golpes de estado, guerras civis e movimentos de libertação/terroristas/etc.

O que destingue-os é o número, devem ser o país que mais apoiou e fomentou essas coisas em todo o mundo no pós 2.ª GM.

Quanto a fomento de golpes com apoio dos soviéticos desde a ww2, temos todos os países do leste europeu (tanques em praga entre outros). Eles gostaram tanto de serem submetidos ao poder de Moscovo que quando puderam meteram-se nos braços da UE, basta ver a quantidade de países independentes desde 1990.
Fora da Europa temos o Afeganistão, Cuba vietman, coreia do norte, china, Angola, Moçambique entre outros.

[listadecompras]

Quanto à Rússia podemos falar do corte de Gás à Ucrânia, o apoio à bielorrussa, a Chechênia a Geórgia e o desaparecimento de muita gente que diz mal do putin. Quanto à guerra colonial os russos andaram de mãos dadas com os americanos. Foi a única vez em toda a guerra fria que os dois andaram juntos.

Vamos ser sérios, tanto a direita (USA) como a esquerda (Rússia) tem culpas no cartório, pois ambas tentaram mudar líderes em muitos países. Agora entre uma ditadura que tenho agora e a ditadura como é na Venezuela (país apoiado pela Russia), eu prefiro esta de longe.

Tens razao Nelson, tanto os americanos como os russos tem culpas no cartorio, mas o Cabeca de Martelo foi ao essencial da questao -  feitas as contas os E.U.A. sao os campeoes da matanca.

adiante

Falaste dos Gulag (nao e novidade), podias ter falado dos campos de concentracao na america com populacao niponica.

Falaste do apoio russo a bielorussia, podias ter dito que os EUA apoiam o regime de Bahrein.

Falaste do corte de gas a ucrania, podias ter falado do embargo ao povo cubano.

Falaste dos paises do leste europeu submetidos a Moscovo, olha entao para o que os EUA/CIA fizeram na america latina no seculo passado.

A Chechenia e um problema interno da Russia. Putin nao grama os fanaticos islamicos nem um bocadinho ,e foi preciso cortar o mal pela raiz.

Explica-me o que e o Kosovo. Um protectorado da Nato? Ouvi dizer que anda por la muito trafico de armas e de mulheres.

Quanto ao destino de quem fala mal do putin, muito do que e dito sao campanhas de difamacao, ex-colegas do kgb ate ja o acusaram de pedofilia, enfim teorias da conspiracao. Que queres que te diga mais? as pussy riot sao apoiadas pelo "ocidente", alguns dos activistas da greenpeace foram libertados...

A falta de lideres no ocidente eu e milhoes de pessoas (americanos incluidos) dao gracas ao Putin por ter evitado a borrada que os americanos estiveram prestes a fazer na siria. A personalidade de 2013 sem duvida.

Nao vamos ser demagogos e acabar o texto falando nas bombas atomicas, os livros da historia ainda dizem que nao foram os iranianos que bombardearam hiroshima e nagasaki.

tenho um pressentimento, nao sei nao...

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dedicado a todos os teoricos da conspiracao, aos demagogos e aos imparciais.

como dizia aquele programa da radio- "vale a pena pensar nisto"

The Putin Murders
A Brief History of Putintime


March 1997

45-year-old former KGB agent Vladimir Putin  is plucked from obscurity out of the St. Petersburg local government apparatus by President Boris Yeltsin and named Deputy Chief of Staff. In June, he defends his PhD dissertation in “strategic planning” at St. Petersburg’s Mining Institute. Later, this document proves to have been plagiarized from a KGB translation of work by U.S. professors published many years earlier (as if nobody would notice, and in fact for quite a while nobody did).

July 1998

In a second inexplicable move, Yeltsin names Putin head of the KGB (now called the FSB).

November 1998

Less than four months after Putin takes over at the KGB, opposition Duma Deputy Galina Starovoitova , the most prominent pro-democracy Kremlin critic in the nation, is murdered at her apartment building in St. Petersburg. Four months after that, Putin will play a key role in silencing the Russian Attorney General, Yury Skuratov, who was investigating high-level corruption in the Kremlin, by airing an illicit sex video involving Skuratov on national TV. Four months after the dust settles in the Skuratov affair, Putin will be named Prime Minister.

August 1999

Completing a hat trick of bizarre spontaneous promotions, proud KGB spy Putin is named by Yeltsin Prime Minister of Russia. Almost immediately, Putin orders a massive bombing campaign against the tiny, defenseless breakaway republic of Chechnya, apparently seeing the reassertion of Russian power there as key to overall resurgence of Russia’s military and state security apparatus, his primary political objective. On August 26th, he’s forced to acknowledge the horrific consequences of the bombing. Hundreds of civilians are killed and tens of thousands are left homeless as civilian targets are attacked. World opinion begins to turn starkly against Russia, especially in Europe, very similarly to the manner in which it has polarized against U.S. President George Bush over Iraq. Putin’s poll numbers in Russia begin to slide.

September 1999

An apartment building in the Pechatniki neighborhood of Moscow is blown up by a bomb. 94 are killed. Less than a week later a second bomb destroys a building in Moscow’s Kashirskoye neighborhood, killing 118. Days after that, a massive contingent of Russian soldiers is surrounding Chechnya as public opposition to the war evaporates. On October 1st, Putin declares Chechen president Aslan Maskhadov and his parliament illegitimate. Russian forces invade.
New Year’s Eve, 1999

Boris Yeltsin resigns the presidency of Russia, handing the office to Putin in order to allow him to run as an incumbent three months later. Given the pattern of bizarre promotions Putin has previously received, the move is hardly even surprising. So-called “experts” on Russia scoff at the possibility that Putin could be elected, proclaiming that, having tasted freedom, Russia can “never go back” to the dark days of the USSR.

March 2000
Despite being the nominee of a man, Yeltsin, who enjoyed single-digit public approval ratings in polls, Vladimir Putin is elected “president” of Russia in a massive landslide (he wins nearly twice as many votes as his nearest competitor). Shortly thereafter, all hell breaks loose in Chechnya. Russia will ultimately be convicted of human rights violations before the European Court for Human Rights and condemned for its abuses of the civilian population by every human rights organization under the sun.

[Between April 2000 and March 2002, Russia plunges into a nightmarish conflict in Chechnya eerily similar to what America now faces in Iraq. Opposition journalists, especially those who dare to report on what it going on in Chechnya, suddenly start dying. In 2000 alone, reporters Igor Domnikov, Sergey Novikov, Iskandar Khatloni, Sergey Ivanov and Adam Tepsurgayev are murdered -- not by hostile fire in Chechnya but in blatant assassinations at home in Russia. On June 16, 2001, at a press conference in Brdo Pri Kranju, Slovenia, President Bush is asked about Putin: "Is this a man that Americans can trust?" Bush replies: "I will answer the question. I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy. We had a very good dialogue. I was able to get a sense of his soul; a man deeply committed to his country and the best interests of his country. And I appreciated so very much the frank dialogue."]

April 2003

Sergei Yushenkov, co-chairman of the Liberal Russia political party , is gunned down at the entrance of his Moscow apartment block. Yushenkov had been serving as the vice chair of the group known as the “Kovalev Commission” which was formed to informally investigate charges that Putin’s KGB had planted the Pechatniki and Kashirskoye apartment bombs to whip up support for the Putin’s war in Chechnya after the formal legislative investigation turned out to be impossible. Another member of the Commission, Yuri Shchekochikhin (see below) will perish of poisoning, a third will be severely beaten by thugs, and two other members will lose their seats in the Duma. The Commission’s lawyer, Mikhail Trepashkin (see below) will be jailed after a secret trial on espionage charges. Today, virtually none of the members of the Commission are left whole and it is silent.

May 2003

Putin’s popularity in opinion polls slips below 50% after sliding precipitously while the conflict in Chechnya became increasingly bloody. Suddenly, he begins to appear vulnerable, and oil billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky begins to be discussed as one who could unseat him. All hell breaks loose in Russian politics.

July 2003

Yuri Shchekochikhin , a vocal opposition journalist and member of the Russian Duma and the Kovalev Commission, suddenly contracts a mysterious illness. Witnesses reported: “He complained about fatigue, and red blotches began to appear on his skin. His internal organs began collapsing one by one. Then he lost almost all his hair.” One of Shchekochikhin’s last newspaper articles before his death was entitled “Are we Russia or KGB of Soviet Union?” In it, he described such issues as the refusal of the FSB to explain to the Russian Parliament what poison gas was applied during the Moscow theater hostage crisis, and work of secret services from the former Soviet republic of Turkmenistan, which operated with impunity in Moscow against Russian citizens of Turkoman origin. According to Wikipedia: “He also tried to investigate the Three Whales Corruption Scandal and criminal activities of FSB officers related to money laundering through the Bank of New York and illegal actions of Yevgeny Adamov, a former Russian Minister of Nuclear Energy. This case was under the personal control of Putin. In June of 2003, Shchekochikhin contacted the FBI and got an American visa to discuss the case with US authorities. However, he never made it to the USA because of his sudden death on July 3rd. The Russian authorities refused to allow an autopsy, but according to Wikipedia his relatives “managed to send a specimen of his skin to London, where a tentative diagnosis was made of poisoning with thallium” (a poison commonly used by the KGB, at first suspected in the Litvinenko killing).

October 2003

Assaults on the enemies of the Kremlin reach fever pitch as the election cycle begins. Within one week at the end of the month, two major opposition figures are in prison.

October 22, 2003

Mikhail Trepashkin , a former KGB spy and the attorney for the Kovalev Commission, is arrested for illegal possession of a firearm (which he claims was planted in his vehicle). Also retain to represent some of the victims of the apartment bombings theselves, Trepashkin allegedly uncovered a trail of a mysterious suspect whose description had disappeared from the files and learned that the man was one of his former FSB colleagues. He also found a witness who testified that evidence was doctored to lead the investigation away from incriminating the FSB. The weapons charge against Trepashkin mysteriously morphs into a spying charge handled by a closed military proceeding that is condemned by the U.S. government as being a blatant sham, and Trepashkin is sent to prison for four years. Publius Pundit reported on Trepashkin’s plight back in early December of last year.

October 25, 2003

Just as the presidential election cycle is beginning, Khodorkovsky is arrested at the airport in Novosibirsk. He will be tried and convicted for tax fraud and sent to Siberia, just like in the bad old days of the USSR, in a show trial all international observers condemn as rigged (his lawyer has documented the legal violations in a 75-page treatise). He is there today, now facing a second prosecution for the same offense. His company, YUKOS, is being slowly gobbled up by the Kremlin.

March 2004

With Khodorkovsky conveniently in prison and the Kovalev Commission conveniently muzzled, Vladimir Putin is re-elected “president” of Russia, again in a landslide despite his poll numbers. He faces no serious competition from any opposition candidate. He does not participate in any debates. He wins a ghastly, Soviet-like 70% of the vote. Immediately, talk begins of a neo-Soviet state, with Putin assuming the powers of a dictator. The most public and powerful enemies of the regime start dropping like flies.

June 2004

Nikolai Girenko , a prominent human rights defender, Professor of Ethnology and expert on racism and discrimination in the Russian Federation is shot dead in his home in St Petersburg. Girenko’s work has been crucial in ensuring that racially motivated assaults are classified as hate crimes, rather than mere hooliganism, and therefore warrant harsher sentences — as well as appearing as black marks on Russia’s public record.

July 2004

Paul Klebnikov , editor of the Russian edition Forbes magazine, is shot and killed in Moscow. Forbes has reported that at the time of his death, Paul was believed to have been investigating a complex web of money laundering involving a Chechen reconstruction fund, reaching into the centers of power in the Kremlin and involving elements of organized crime and the FSB (the former KGB).

September 2004

Viktor Yushchenko, anti-Russian candidate for the presidency of the Ukraine, is poisoned by Dioxin. Yushchenko’s chief of staff Oleg Ribachuk suggests that the poison used was a mycotoxin called T-2, also known as “Yellow Rain,” a Soviet-era substance which was reputedly used in Afghanistan as a chemical weapon. Miraculously, he survives the attack.

[Throughout the next year, a full frontal assault on the media is launched by the Kremlin. Reporters Without Borders states: "Working conditions for journalists continued to worsen alarmingly in 2005, with violence the most serious threat to press freedom. The independent press is shrinking because of crippling fines and politically-inspired distribution of government advertising. The authorities’ refusal to accredit foreign journalists showed the government’s intent to gain total control of news, especially about the war in Chechnya."]

September 2006

Andrei Kozlov , First Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Central Bank, who strove to stamp out money laundering (basically acting on analyses like that of reporter Klebnikov), the highest-ranking reformer in Russia, is shot and killed in Moscow. Many media reports classify Kozlov’s killing as “an impudent challenge to all Russian authorities” and warn that “failure to apprehend the killers would send a signal to others that intimidation of government officials is once again an option.” Less considered is the possibility that Kozlov, like Klebnikov, was on the trail of corruption that would have led into the Kremlin itself, which then lashed out at him preemptively assuming he could not be bought.

October 2006

Anna Politkovskaya , author of countless books and articles exposing Russian human rights violations in Chechnya and attacking Vladimir Putin as a dictator, is shot and killed at her home in Moscow. In her book Putin’s Russia, Politkovskaya had written: “I have wondered a great deal why I have so got it in for Putin. What is it that makes me dislike him so much as to feel moved to write a book about him? I am not one of his political opponents or rivals, just a woman living in Russia. Quite simply, I am a 45-year-old Muscovite who observed the Soviet Union at its most disgraceful in the 1970s and ’80s. I really don’t want to find myself back there again.” Analysts begin to talk openly of Kremlin complicity in the ongoing string of attacks. Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum writes: “Local businessmen had no motivation to kill her — but officials of the army, the police and even the Kremlin did. Whereas local thieves might have tried to cover their tracks, Politkovskaya’s assassin, like so many Russian assassins, did not seem to fear the law. There are jitters already: A few hours after news of Politkovskaya’s death became public, a worried friend sent me a link to an eerie Russian Web site that displays photographs of ‘enemies of the people’ — all Russian journalists and human rights activists, some quite well known. Above the pictures is each person’s birth date and a blank space where, it is implied, the dates of their deaths will soon be marked. That sort of thing will make many, and probably most, Russians think twice before criticizing the Kremlin about anything.”

November 2006

Alexander Litvinenko , KGB defector and author of the book Blowing up Russia, which accuses the Kremlin of masterminding the and Pechatniki and Kashirskoye bombings in order to blame Chechen terrorists and whip up support for an invasion of Chechnya (which shortly followed), is fatally poisoned by radioactive Polonium obtained from Russian sources. Litivinenko had given sensational testimony to the Kovalev Commission and warned Sergei Yushenkov that was a KGB target). In his last days Litvinenko himself, as well as other KGB defectors, including Oleg Kalugin, Yuri Shvets and Mikhail Trepashkin (who allegedly actually warned Litvinenko that he had been targeted before the hit took place) directly blamed the Kremlin for ordering the poisoning. Recent press reports indicate that British investigators have come to the same conclusion. With Litvinenko out of the picture, the only member of the Kovalev Commission left unscathed is its 77-year-old namesake chairman, dissident Sergei Kovalev — who has grown notably silent.

March 2007

On Sunday February 25th, the American TV news magazine Dateline NBC aired a report on the killing of Litvinenko. MSNBC also carried a report. The reports confirmed that British authorities believe Litvinenko perished in a “state-sponsored” assasination. In the opening of the broadcast, Dateline highlighted the analysis of a senior British reporter and a senior American expert on Russia who knew Litvinennko well. Here’s an excerpt from the MSNBC report:

Daniel McGrory, a senior correspondent for The Times of London, has reported many of the developments in the Litvinenko investigation. He said the police were stuck between a rock and a hard place. “While they claim, and the prime minister, Tony Blair, has claimed nothing will be allowed to get in the way of the police investigation, the reality is the police are perfectly aware of the diplomatic fallout of this story,” McGrory said. “Let’s be frank about this: The United States needs a good relationship with Russia, and so does Europe,” said Paul M. Joyal, a friend of Litvinenko’s with deep ties as a consultant in Russia and the former Soviet states. Noting that Russia controls a significant segment of the world gas market, Joyal said: “This is a very important country. But how can you have an important relationship with a country that could be involved in activities such as this? It’s a great dilemma.”

Five days before the broadcast aired, shortly after he was interviewed for it, McGrory was dead. His obituary reads “found dead at his home on February 20, 2007, aged 54.” Five days after the broadcast aired, Joyal (pictured, right) was lying in a hospital bed after having been shot for no apparent reason, ostensibly the victim of a crazed random street crime.  He was returning home after having dinner with KGB defector Oleg Kalugin, and had been an aggressive advocate for Georgian independence from Russian influence.  The attack remains unsolved.

CONCLUSION: Did the Kremlin have anything to do with either Joyal’s or McGrory’s fates, or is it just coincidence that both were struck down within days of giving statements directly blaming the Kremlin for Litvinenko’s killing to the American press? Would the Kremlin really be so brazen as to attack an American for speaking in America? Whether it did not not is almost beside the point: the thing you can’t see is always scarier than the thing you can. The Kremlin is now positioned to turn random accidents into weapons. Appelbaum sums it up: “As Russian (and Eastern European) history well demonstrates, it isn’t always necessary to kill millions of people to frighten all the others: A few choice assassinations, in the right time and place, usually suffice. Since the arrest of oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky in 2003, no other Russian oligarchs have attempted even to sound politically independent. After the assassination of Politkovskaya on Saturday, it’s hard to imagine many Russian journalists following in her footsteps to Grozny either.”

NOTE: For more on the Putin murders from a panel of Russia experts, click here.

January 2009

On January 19, 2009, Russian human rights attorney Stanslav Markelov  was shot in the back of the head with a silenced pistol as he left a press conference at which he announced his intention to sue the Russian government for its early release of the Col. Yuri Budanov, who murdered his 18-year-old client in Chechnya five years earlier. Also shot and killed was Anastasia Barburova, a young journalism student who was working for Novaya Gazeta and who had studied under Anna Politkovskaya, reporting on the Budanov proceedings.

July 2009


On July 14, 2009, leading Russian human rights journalist and activist Natalia Estemirova , a single mother of a teenaged daughter, was abducted in front of her home in Grozny, Chechnya, spirited across the border into Ingushetia, shot and dumped in a roadside gutter.  Viewed as the successor to Anna Politkovskaya and by far the most prominent living critic of Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov, who had repeatedly threatened her life, Estemirova was a member of the “Memorial” human rights NGO and a steadfast defender of human rights in Chechnya.  Most recently, she had been reporting on the barbaric practice of the government in burning down the homes of rebel activists, often with women and children locked inside.