KGB Admit AlZawahiri KGB Trained in 1998, (relevent to Litvinenko assassination) Options

[Guest_Sean Osborne_*]

Sit down and read. You're gonna freak...

Former KGB Officer Says Russia's FSB Trained, Employed Bin Ladin's Deputy "Al-Qa'ida Deputy Trained With Russia's Secret Service: Report" -- AFP headline
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WARSAW, Jul 16 (AFP) -- Al-Qa'ida's number two was trained by Russia's secret service and served as a KGB agent before becoming Osama Bin Laden's right-hand man, a former KGB secret agent told Poland's

newspaper on Saturday ( 16 July).
"Ayman al-Zawahiri trained at a Federal Security Service (FSB, former KGB) base in Dagestan in 1998," claimed ex-FSB agent Alexander Litvinenko who fled Russia in 2000.
"He was then transferred to Afghanistan where he became Usama Bin Ladin's deputy", Litvinenko told the newspaper.
"I was working in that section at the time and I can confirm the fact Zawahiri was not the only link between the FSB and Al-Qa'ida", he said.
Last month Al-Jazeerah television aired a new videotape of Egyptian-born Zawahiri in which he called for more "jihad," or holy war, against US forces and Israel.
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[Guest_J. Adams_*]

Holy crap!

Now that's a find.

Boy does the FSB want that agent to "disappear".

Let's google him:

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navc...r+Litvinenko%22

This is VERY INTERESTING:

http://www.liberty-publishing.com/New/BUR.htm

Yuri Felshtinsky
Alexander Litvinenko

English and Russian Editions

Blowing up Russia is a book about a tragedy, which has overtaken us all, about wasted opportunities, lost lives, and a country that is dying. It is a book for those who are capable of recognizing the reality of the past and are not afraid to influence the future.

This book attempts to demonstrate that modern Russia's most fundamental problems do not result from the radical reforms of the liberal period of Yeltsin's terms as president, but from the open or clandestine resistance offered to these reforms by the Russian special services. It was they who unleashed the first and second Chechen wars, in order to divert Russia away from the path of democracy and towards dictatorship, militarism, and chauvinism.

The war in Chechnya has made human life cheap in Russia. The brutal killings and the trade in slaves and hostages have thrown the country back to the days of slavery. Thousands of people who go through the war in Chechnya are forced to kill. They can never go back to civilian life.

Chechnya is the FSB's workshop, the training ground for the future personnel of the Russian special services and freelance brigades of mercenary killers. The longer this war goes on, the more irreversible its consequences become. One of its fatal consequences is the eternal hatred of Chechens for Russia and Russians. Russia will never know peace again. It is doomed to bear this cross through the generations.

[Guest_J. Adams_*]

MORE...

http://www.gazeta.ru/2002/05/30/FSBinahurryt.shtml

FSB in a hurry to convict defector

Alexander Litvinenko, charged with abuse of office, theft of explosives and illegally purchasing and storing firearms, went on trial in the Narofominsk military court near Moscow on May 28. The defendant, however, was conspicuous by his absence; last year the former FSB officer was granted political asylum in Great Britain. Nevertheless, Russian prosecutors are hurriedly pressing on to convict the officer before new legislation, to be phased in at the beginning of July, outlaws trials in absentia.

The former FSB Lieutenant-Colonel moved to London with his family where he was granted political asylum two years ago. Litvinenko rose to prominence in 1998 after he told a news conference that the FSB’s anti-mafia directorate had been instructed to murder Boris Berezovsky. At that time, the tycoon enjoyed tremendous influence in the Kremlin and was considered one of the most powerful men in the country.

Litvinenko was assigned to carry out that order, since he had known the tycoon personally. They became acquainted in 1994, after Berezovsky’s car was destroyed in a blast, and the officer investigated the circumstances of that incident.

After that scandalous news conference, a criminal investigation into the murder attempt against the tycoon was launched only to be closed shortly afterwards due to a lack of evidence. Litvinenko, himself was subsequently charged with abuse of office and taken into custody. He spent 8 months in remand at the high-security Lefortovo prison, until the Moscow garrison court found the evidence to be insufficient and acquitted him.

The military prosecutor’s office had anticipated such an outcome and arrested the officer on a new charge right in the courtroom. This time, Litvinenko was accused of possessing explosives. Litvinenko’s lawyers helped him out of detention on condition of a travel ban and in November 2000 the officer fled to London.

Upon arrival at Heathrow airport the fugitive made a statement. He said that his family was in danger, because he knew how and by whom the Moscow apartment bombings of September 1999 were carried out. Six months later, Litvinenko was granted political asylum in the UK.

The last time he appeared in public was on March 5, when he took part in a news conference in London where Boris Berezovsky presented his documentary. The film, ''Attack on Russia'', aimed to prove the FSB’s involvement in the 1999 bombings in Moscow and Volgodonsk, as well as Putin’s knowledge of these operations.

Three weeks later, prosecutors in Moscow resumed proceedings against Litvinenko. The officer was summoned for questioning in Moscow, but he ignored the summons. In an interview to Russian daily Rossiiskaya Gazeta, the officer confirmed that at the end of March this year, two employees of the Russian consular office knocked on the door of his apartment in London, but he would not let them in.

''I have not done anything criminal or unlawful. I only refused to kill a man (Boris Berezovsky. – Gazeta.Ru),'' Litvinenko told the Rossiyskaya Gazeta daily. ''I have been behind bars twice already, but the charges against me have never been proved. Now they are charging me with the abduction of some Odinokov, who I allegedly drove in a car-trunk for questioning and beat up. The man shown on video footage broadcast on Russian TV every once in a while is not me. I have never seen that Odinokov. And, well, it sounds funny: I kidnapped and beat him up in 1997, and he remembers about it and only complains in 2000, by the time I was in London,'' he continued.

On May 28, Litvinenko’s trial opened in the Narofominsk military court in the vicinity of Moscow. The FSB’s eagerness to have the fugitive officer convicted at any cost compelled the powerful agency to admit that some people who work for the service have guilty consciences and very dirty hands.

The second court session on Wednesday was held behind closed doors. The court questioned two witnesses, former colleagues of Litvinenko from the FSB’s directorate for combating organized crime, Viktor Shebalin and Nikolai Borisov. Both testified against Litvinenko.

Shebalin identified Litvinenko as the one who had severely beaten up a suspect detained in the course of an investigation in Podolsk. The video footage of that ''interrogation'' was presented to the court. The defence counsel Mikhail Marov argued that the quality of the film was very low and that it was absolutely impossible to identify anyone on it. Nevertheless, Shebalin said he had recognized Litvinenko by his voice and manners.

His colleague, Nikolai Borisov confirmed that the FSB Colonel had beaten up another person. According to the witness, it happened during an investigative operation in Kostroma, where Litvinenko had been investigating a series of explosions. Borisov alleged that Litvinenko used inadmissible methods to gather evidence. In particular, he beat up a person suspected of making explosive devices, and then planted a bomb in the suspect’s car. Borisov claimed he had seen it all with his own eyes.

Altogether, the prosecution has 6 victims and 35 witnesses ready to confirm various episodes of Litvinenko’s criminal activity. Because the defendant is being tried in his absence, it is most likely that the number of witnesses invited to testify will be reduced. Otherwise, the court will fail to complete the examination before July 1. And for the FSB it is now a matter of honour to have Litvinenko convicted, no matter what.

In the opinion of Litvinenko’s defence lawyer, the testimonies of Shabalin and Borisov are not credible. He intends to ask the court for permission to summon 20 more witnesses, and to order 2-3 forensic examinations. However, it is unlikely that the court will satisfy Marov’s requests. Moreover, the court is well aware that the verdict will have no practical significance. Litvinenko is not coming back to Russia.

30 МАЯ 14:51

[Guest_J. Adams_*]

From - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,18...1610952,00.html

From Russia with secrets
by urban fox, times online correspondent

Until recently, Mr Litvinenko was a lieutenant-colonel in the Russian secret police. He claims to know some of the darkest dealings of his country's recent past

There's something very un-English about murderers who dispatch their victims too flamboyantly. Louis Untermeyer expressed British puzzlement when faced with showy foreign killers perfectly in the lines:

Although the Borgias
Were rather gorgeous
They liked the absurder
Kind of murder.

That's why people in this country find stories about the KGB so extraordinary. The sheer swaggering theatricality of the kind of killings the Soviet secret police were said to favour, beggars the average English person's belief. Tell an Englishman that an assassin might choose to kill someone innocently waiting for a London bus by jabbing him with an umbrella tip containing a pellet of the rare and virtually untraceable poison ricin, and the Englishman's first reaction will be to laugh in disbelief. Why bother with such elaborate cloak-and-dagger tactics? If you want to bump someone off, why not just push him under the bus?

Yet, however much it sticks in English gullets, that is exactly the way the KGB did behave. Ricin was used in the James Bond-style murder in London in 1978 of the Bulgarian dissident writer Georgi Markov. He was jabbed with a poisoned umbrella tip while waiting for a bus on London Bridge, and died four days later. The KGB was blamed.

Anyone who thinks the secret police learned to behave better after the Soviet Union disintegrated - and the Soviet KGB was reformed and renamed the Russian FSB - will definitely want to gasp and stretch their eyes at almost everything a more recent arrival in London has been saying since he got here.

Alexander Litvinenko came to the British capital five years ago. He's a fair-haired man of about 40 with quiet ways and watchful eyes. He has a wife and a son coming up to his teens. They've all lived unobtrusively in a leafy bit of suburban London since leaving Moscow.

But I am not at liberty to reveal precisely which leafy bit of London Mr Litvinenko lives in. He believes that might endanger his life. His contact details change often; his mobile number went dead last summer after someone pushed a pram containing Molotov cocktails at his front door. Until recently, Mr Litvinenko was a lieutenant-colonel in the Russian secret police. He claims to know some of the darkest secrets of his country's recent past, from the era when the FSB was run by one Vladimir Putin, who later become the Russian president. And the spy in hiding fears he will be silenced.

Mr Litvinenko first made headlines in Russia in 1998, when he blew the whistle on an order he says he received from his FSB superiors to assassinate the unpopular but powerful tycoon Boris Berezovsky. After a black comedy of institutional reaction - he was fired, arrested on unrelated charges of mistreating a detainee, acquitted, rearrested on similar charges, reacquitted, rearrested a third time, and only cleared his name in court thanks to a photographic memory which allowed him to prove exactly where he was at any given time - he was whisked off to Britain where he won political asylum.

While still at the FSB, Mr Litvinenko says his job was corruption-busting. But, he says, he kept finding it inside his own office - generals hand in glove with drug-runners; colonels running racketeers. All his investigations were fruitless because they ultimately led to federal ministries. His attempt to spill the beans to Putin himself - and get the boss to crack down on an organisation running riot - was not a success. He was fired within weeks.

Luckily for him, Mr Berezovsky quickly fell out with President Putin and also fled to London, where he too now has political asylum. Mr Berezovsky spends his time here denouncing the Russian president for bringing the histrionic methods of murder traditionally favoured by the KGB into the modern Kremlin. The billionaire finances a coterie of dissidents whose stories lend weight to his version of events, including Mr Litvinenko and the Chechen separatist Akhmed Zakayev.

So Alexander Litvinenko pops up at press conferences, or at parties for anti-Putin journalists, or, last week, at the Oxford Union with Mr Zakayev. He looks restrained, speaks quietly and wears neat tweed jackets. But his every revelation is designed to show that the FSB, Putin's almer mater, is behind just as many cloak-and-dagger horrors as the KGB ever was.

His biggest revelation centred on the conspiracy theory that the FSB was involved in a string of bombing attacks that levelled apartment buildings across Russia in the autumn of 1999. The theory has it that these bombings, which Russian authorities blamed on Chechen separatists, were used to galvanise public support for the invasion of Chechnya and win Mr Putin the presidency.

President Putin has dismissed the allegation that the bombings were organised by the FSB, under his own command, as "delirious nonsense". But the FSB was annoyed enough about Mr Litvinenko's book, "The FSB Blows Up Russia," to seize a shipment of 4,400 of them in Moscow at the end of 2003 in what it called an effort to protect state secrets.

It was hair-raising stuff, at least in principle. But in practice, outside the overheated rooms where the kind of people gather who have lived in Russia and come to take KGB horror stories seriously (including, I have to admit, me), it never really gained a foothold in the British popular imagination. It was just too exotic for anyone from the comparatively gentle streets of London. Perhaps partly because the FSB has omitted to take a poisoned umbrella to Mr Litvinenko, his revelations have turned out to be a bit of a damp squib.

FSB were involved. I thought he'd gone quiet for a while but last week I found him at it again - this time announcing that the FSB had been behind a bizarre bloodletting in ex-Soviet Armenia in 1999, when gunmen burst into parliament and shot eight of the most prominent politicians in the land.

I'm no longer in phone contact with Alexander Litvinenko. But his emails go on coming thick and fast - musings on the causes of the Chechen conflict or patriotism, snippets from Chechenpress, or bitter comparisons between Putin's Russia and Nazis, all topped with quotes from Russian literature in neat italics.

Mr Litvinenko must be frustrated to discover that he's brought his extraordinary revelations to a land where people can't bring themselves to believe in the absurder kind of murder (except if it is committed between the covers of an Agatha Christie novel).

Like many immigrants, there's clearly a part of him that can't let go of his past at home, even a past and a home as horrifying as he says Russia is if you're in the FSB, or come to its attention. But he's an intelligent man. Give him another five years to assimilate, and who knows?

He may yet come to be pleased to have become part of a society that operates through an endless round of TV dinners, PTA meetings and uneventful outings to Tescos, and whose definition of freedom is the freedom to feel safe while snoozing through the news.

[Guest_Eagle Strike_*]

Well now...proof of TFP for even the blindest to see. You know...during the Reagan years when there was still a Cold War this would be HOT news. I bet this doesn't even get ranked among the major media outlets.

Guys...something big is going to happen soon.

[Guest_J. Adams_*]

The key is that Zawahiri is the "bioterror" link of al Qaeda.

Read Ross Getman's exhaustive analysis:

http://www.anthraxandalqaeda.com/

Again, al Qaeda is a proxy for "strategic" bioterror against the West. By strategic, I mean this bioterror will have a crippling effect on Western society going into the final nuclear blows.

See my analysis about Russia's disinformation campaign on the bioterror connection to al Qaeda in this thread:

http://thefinalphaseforum.invisionzone.com...p?showtopic=236

[Guest_HL Shancken_*]

We'd all be wise to reread chapter 8 of Suvorov's book. It relates to this topic.

Spetsnaz, chapter 8

[Guest_Sean Osborne_*]

We ought to be going into JR Nyquists "PastAnalysis" section and reading his article entitled "Zawahiri's Russian Adventure".

We ought to be reading what Yossef Bodansky wote in his book "Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America" about Al Qaeda's acquisition of nuclear weapons.

TFP101.

[Gadsden]

Given the timing amidst the whirlwind of events lately, one must wonder whether our people had a hand in this story coming out. Could we be saying, "We know more than you think."?

[Guest_J. Adams_*]

We ought to be going into JR Nyquists "PastAnalysis" section and reading his article entitled "Zawahiri's Russian Adventure".

We ought to be reading what Yossef Bodansky wote in his book "Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America" about Al Qaeda's acquisition of nuclear weapons.

TFP101.
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"Ayman al-Zawahiri's Russian Adventure" by J. R. Nyquist:

http://www.financialsense.com/stormwatch/g...s/2002/0716.htm

[Guest_J. Adams_*]

Given the timing amidst the whirlwind of events lately, one must wonder whether our people had a hand in this story coming out. Could we be saying, "We know more than you think."?
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No. Western intelligence remains oblivious to these truths. Also, the story came out in a Polish newspaper, not here. Also, it is only being picked up by the foreign press, not ours:

http://www.zaman.com/?bl=international&alt=&hn=21841

http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/arti...57&parent_id=56

I'd say there's elements at the Polish newspaper contacted by Litvinenko who are saavy to his truthfulness and suspicious of Russia generally given what Poland endured during Soviet times. Russian operatives are going to move quickly to try and squelch this "unacceptable" story....maybe by discrediting Litvinenko in some radical way. Of course, Russian intelligence's best bet is to sit back and simply let the story fade by lack of interest in the West.

[Guest_Perilous Times_*]

"I think there's military-grade planning behind it [911]."

John Thompson,
MacKenzie Institute (Canada)
National Post, September 12, 2001

http://www.mackenzieinstitute.com/2001/terror090101.htm


PT: Yup. You got that right. GRU and allied MI outfits . . .

[Guest_frankrn_*]

Thanks Sean for your input. If this thing does happen than its seems for sure that China will actualy take Taiwan and we will be quickly running out of time. Seems as if God warned me lastr May that something heavy would h appen by September.
I suspect that the West Coast would be hit this time instead of the East Coast. It would perhaps be more effective psycologicaly. We are being drawn deeper into war. Any plans for refuge besides on your knees?

[Guest_Perilous Times_*]

PT: Moscow News picks up Polish story on Al-Zawahiri.


Al Qaeda’s Al-Zawahiri Received Terrorist Training in Russia — Newspaper
Created: 18.07.2005 11:26 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 11:29 MSK, 6 hours 10 minutes ago
MosNews

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), formerly known as the KGB, gave terrorist training to Ayman-al-Zawahiri, the second most wanted member of al-Qaeda after Osama bin Laden, Asian News International reported Sunday.

The Pakistani newspaper The Dawn quoted a report in the Polish newspaper “Rzeczpospolita” that before deciding to join Osama, Zawahiri received terrorist training in 1998 at an FSB camp in Dagestan.

Thereafter, he shifted his base to Afghanistan to become Osama bin Laden’s deputy, the paper quoted a former FSB agent as saying.

The agent also claimed that Zawahiri was not the only link between the FSB and al-Qaeda.

Zawahiri has been indicted for his alleged role in the Aug. 7, 1998, bombings of U.S. Embassies in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya.

The U.S. State Department’s “Rewards for Justice Program” has offered a reward of up to $25 million for information leading directly to the apprehension or conviction of Zawahiri.

Born on June 19, 1951, Zawahiri is a prominent member of al-Qaeda, and formerly headed the Egyptian Islamic Jihad paramilitary organization. Al-Zawahiri is a physician by trade and speaks Arabic, French, and some English.

In 1998 he formally merged the Egyptian Islamic Jihad into al-Qaeda.

According to reports by a former al-Qaeda member, he has worked in the organization since its inception and was a senior member of the group’s shura council. He is often described as a “lieutenant” to Osama. It is also assumed that al-Zawahiri serves as Bin Laden’s doctor as the latter reportedly suffers from a kidney disorder, possibly requiring dialysis.

http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/07/18/fsbalqaeda.shtml

[Guest_J. Adams_*]

"I think there's military-grade planning behind it [911]."

John Thompson,
MacKenzie Institute (Canada)
National Post, September 12, 2001

http://www.mackenzieinstitute.com/2001/terror090101.htm
PT: Yup. You got that right. GRU and allied MI outfits . . .
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Especially Iraq and Syria's Mukhabarrat:

http://www.spiritoftruth.org/ksm.htm

Looks like the mysterious Baluch family of Khalid Mohammed (9/11 mastermind) and Ramzi Yousef ('93 WTC bombing mastermind) is a set of KGB trained agents that was infused into al Qaeda to carry out the operational planning, coordination and exectuation of terror attacks against the West. I could write a book on this!

[Guest_J. Adams_*]

From - http://www.islamonline.net/english/news/20...article08.shtml

Russian Intelligence Behind Chechen War: Former Agent

MOSCOW, July 28 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) – A former Russian intelligence agent, Alexander Litvinenko on Friday, July 26, presented testimony from Achimez Gochiayev, the chief suspect for the bombings that swept Russia in 1999, killing some 300 people, and helped to spark the second Chechen war, as fresh proof that the FSB (former KGB) secret service was behind the blasts

The Russian authorities insist that separatist Chechen fighters were behind the series of devastating apartment block blasts in September 1999 - two in Moscow, and one each in the southern Russian cities of Volgodonsk and Buynaksk, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.

In a declaration distributed to journalists, Gochiyaev says that a school friend he believes to be an FSB agent advised him to rent underground premises beneath four apartment buildings in Moscow for commercial purposes.

Two of these buildings were destroyed in explosions on September 9 and 13, 1999, killing more than 200 people.

After the second blast on September 13, Gochiyaev says he warned the police of the risks of further attacks in the other buildings and they discovered explosives there.

The FSB claims that Gochiyaev, from the North Caucausus republic of Karachayevo-Cherkessia, was working for Chechen warlords Shamil Basayev and Khattab, who have been accused of masterminding the bombing campaign in Russia.

On Friday it released photographs showing Gochiyaev next to Basayev.

Litvinenko’s and Gochiyaev’s charges against the FSB met with some skepticism from Sergei Kovalev, lawmaker and former Soviet dissident, who heads the independent team investigating the attacks and who dismissed their evidence as “insufficient at this stage.”

However, some experts are already convinced that the conspiracy theory has some truth to it.

“Litvinenko’s accusations are not unfounded. Chechen rebels were incapable of organizing a series of bombings without help from high-ranking Moscow officials,” former KGB colonel Konstantin Preobrazhensky said.

“Besides, no extremist group ever claimed responsibility for those terrorist acts,” he added.

Sergei Grigoryants of the human rights group Glasnost conceded that the former FSB officer’s accusations were “weak.”

“But the authorities have to launch an investigation of this new evidence. There are many questions which Russian authorities did not answer after the bombings,” he said.

Russian authorities used the wave of deadly attacks, which sowed panic among the population, to justify an “anti-terrorist operation” in Chechnya ordered by then-prime minister Vladimir Putin and launched on October 1, 1999.

Putin was swept to the Russian presidency six months later in the wave of patriotic fervor that followed the intervention.

“The FSB accused Khattab and Gochiyaev, but oddly they did not point the finger at Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov’s regime, which is what the war was launched against,” independent military expert Pavel Fengelhauer noted.

The debate itself is far from new, as the FSB’s involvement was widely discussed in the media shortly after the bombings and those charges were later voiced by self-exiled tycoon Boris Berezovsky, a former Kremlin insider who turned into a vocal Putin critic.

The resurgent debate forced the FSB to once again deny all involvement in the bombings this week.

“Litvinenko’s evidence cannot be taken seriously by those who are investigating the bombings,” an FSB spokesman said.

However, immediately after Litvinenko’s “revelations,” a member of the independent investigative team, Mikhail Trepashkin, himself a former FSB agent specializing in fighting terrorism, was summoned to the prosecutor general’s office, officially to testify on an unrelated case.

[Guest_frankrn_*]

I guess this would explain why OBL and Mr Z havent been caught yet. Little extra help from those who probably know what we are going to do.

[Guest_Sean Osborne_*]

The link will not transfer, but you guys all know where to find these references anyway.

Qaedat-al-Jihad’s Secret Russian Connection

By Sean Osborne
Military Affairs and Senior Analyst
The Northeast Intelligence Network

According to an AFP report of 16 July, 2005 a Russian ex-FSB secret agent, Alexander Litvinenko, who defected to the west in the year 2000, claimed in an interview with a Polish newspaper on that same day that Qaedat-al-Jihad No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri was trained as a covert agent by the Russian Federal Security Service ( FSB, the former Soviet KGB).

Stated Litvinenko, “Ayman al-Zawahiri trained at a Federal Security Service base in Dagestan in 1998. He was then transferred to Afghanistan where he became Osama Bin Ladin's deputy. [al-Zawahiri] was working in that section at the time and I can confirm the fact Zawahiri was not the only link between the FSB and Al-Qa'ida”.

This is not the first time this information had been made open-source. In fact, I know of two or three sources and associated sources that reported this previously and were fairly ignored by mainstream media, if not dismissed outright. This report is corroboration of the previous reports and an assessment of the open-source intelligence they contain.

Respected commentator and analyst JR Nyquist reported this information in July of 2002 when he wrote an article entitled "Ayman al-Zawahiri's Russian Adventure". In the article Nyquist cites a July 2, 2002 Wall Street Journal report by Andrew Higgins, Andres and Alan Cullison, entitled "Saga of Dr. Zawahiri Illuminates Roots of al Qaeda Terror: Secret, Failed Trip to Chechnya Turned Key Plotter’s Focus To America and bin Laden: Sojourn in a Russian Prison.” The above link to Nyquist’s article is a MUST read. It makes the case that al-Zawahiri’s Russian adventure occurred in late 1996 and early 1997, which occurred before the year cited by Litvinenko.

We now come to a second referenced open-source which is a 1999 book by Yossef Bodansky entitled “Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America”. Bin Laden’s first declaration of war on America was a document bearing his signature which is dated August 23, 1996. It can be read in its entirety HERE. Clearly the text of this document illustrates that Osama bin Laden had a pre-existing hatred of America, the West and Israel. However, holding for the moment that Litvinenko’s date might be in error, a significant increase of anti-American vitriol from bin Laden and Qaedat-al-Jihad becomes evident in February of 1998 when the Fatwa to kill all American’s and our allies wherever found was announced and is concurrent with Ayman al-Zawahiri’s joining up with bin laden in Afghanistan, and preceded the events of September 11, 2001. This second fatwa can be read in its entirety HERE.

It is an interesting realization that the Russian FSB/KGB intelligence service had a direct influence of the tactical and operational military objectives of the Al Qaeda organization in the organizations second highest authority – Ayman al-Zawahiri. This probably constitutes a form of relatively effective remote control of Al Qaeda by a world power also ostensibly itself at war with Islamo-facist Salafism in Chechnya and the southern Caucasus region of Russia and central Asia. We are constantly reminded by our political leaders that the Global War on terror (GWOT) is against radical Islam. In fact, we may be in this GWOT against a radical Islam guided by marionette strings emanating from and whose terminus lies within bowels of Moscow, Russia and the Russian intelligence services, the FSB/KGB and GRU.

Following the events of September 11, 2001 and the subsequent launch of U.S. and Allied military actions in southwest Asia two secondary fatwa’s were issued by Qaeda-al-Jihad in rapid succession over a six month period between June and December 2002. These are the now infamous nuclear and “American Hiroshima” fatwa’s I have been referencing recently as issued by Qaedat-al-Jihad spokespersons Suleiman Abu Gheith and Abu Shihab al-Kandahari. We also have a statement from Ayman al-Zawahiri which I must repeat at this time due to its immediate relevance to this open source intelligence assessment. Zawahiri is on record saying:

"We sent our people to Moscow, to Tashkent, to other Central Asian states, and they negotiated, and we purchased some suitcase [tactical nuclear] bombs."

I must now return to the very specific information found in Yossef Bodansky’s book reference in the paragraph above. What it says is the following as recently re-reported by analyst Ryan Mauro:

“Using ties to the Chechen mafia and militant groups, at a cost of $30 million and two tons of opium, he bought up many nuclear weapons (possibly over 20) from Russia, the Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, and began trying to hire former Spetsnaz operatives who were trained in maintaining and using the nukes.”

The full text of Ryan’s report can be seen HERE .

The bottom line of this assessment is this. We in this Constitutional Republic are engaged in an existential war for our national survival. Believe it or not we are in the same boat as Israel, our destinies are inextricably linked and the same enemies are at both our gates and within the interior of our nations. The actions, or lack thereof, taken in the immediate near future will determine whether America has any viable future at all. The purpose of this assessment is to advise you to seek the truth and to request your support to defend this nation from all enemies foreign or domestic. Our progeny deserve nothing less.

©Copyright Sean Osborne, Northeast Intelligence Network. Permission for reposting is granted provided the author and the Northeast Intelligence Network are properly cited.

[Guest_skullocrushah_*]

It is astonishing that this hardly made the news bar a few obscure sites when it is blatantly obvious - even to someone with no knowledge of TFP - that this is big news.

[bm_cali]

RE: We ought to be reading what Yossef Bodansky wote in his book "Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America" about Al Qaeda's acquisition of nuclear weapons.

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Additional must reading:

Bodansky - "Beijing's Surge for the Strait of Malacca" - a classic from his obscure days (early 90s). Google on it and you'll get all sorts of hits - the source is his old site freeman.org

Bodansky couched things in terms of the terrorists being proxies for the Trans-Asian Axis - which was defined by him, at the time, to be the PRC+Pak+Iran+Syria+Ba'athist Iraq+the "islamic" Ex Soviet Republics+DPRK.

Now, add in the additional members of the Shanghai Cooperation Org, Cuba and a few others, and there you have it - an updated version of Bodansky's Trans-Asian Axis aka The Fourth Reich.

His thesis even back then was that World War Three is on its way and that "terrorists" who have been supported by anti Western countries would be used at the outset. He was right.

BM