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Former KGB, FSB officer cites Russia-Al Qaida links A former officer of the Russian security service said Russian intelligence might have trained Al Qaida's No. 2 leader, Ayman al Zawahiri. Aleksandr Litvinenko, a Federal Security Service (FSB) official who worked in the KGB's section F for "special operations" and who fled Russia in 2000 revealed last week that Al Qaida terrorists were trained in former Soviet-run Palestinian, Lebanese, Afghan and Russian camps. Asked if Moscow trained and backed Zawahiri, Litvinenko said: "We cannot rule this hypothesis out Al Qaida's number two man, Ayman al Zawahiri, suspected of having ties to the London bombing, is a former KGB agent. Sentenced to capital punishment in Egypt for terrorism and now being sought by Interpol, al-Zawahiri underwent a half-year course at a FSB base in Daghestan. Then he was deployed to Afghanistan, and became Bin Laden's deputy. And after this successful operation, all of his instructors from the FSB in Daghestan were given promotions and transferred to Moscow." "I worked in the same division," Litvinenko said. "I have grounds to assert that al-Zawahiri is not the only link between the FSB and Al Qaida." The comments were reported July 19 in the Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hdheptc/M=362329.6886306.7839369.3040540/D=groups/S=1705323667:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1122911919/A=2894321/R=0/SIG=11dvsfulr/*http://youthnoise.com/page.php?page_id=1992 ">Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back!</a>.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
