-Caveat Lector- Behind the turmoil in Russia ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- © 1999 WorldNetDaily.com According to a Moscow Times editorial, the Kremlin has destroyed evidence at explosion sites where nearly 300 Russians have been killed in recent terrorist bombings. In one instance, at the obliterated apartment block on Ulitsa Guryanova, vital clues were lost when security officials employed a "controlled implosion" to bury the remains of the building. This was done 10 days after the terrorist attack. Compare this performance to that of the Oklahoma City bombing case, in which five weeks elapsed before the site was imploded. Russian officials are in a hurry to get past the evidence, to wage a subtle propaganda war against a mysterious undeclared enemy. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, former chief of Russia's secret police, has stated that "there is no doubt" that the Moscow bombings are linked to the Islamic incursion in Dagestan. And who is behind the Islamic incursion? In terms of assigning blame for the incursion, Prime Minister Putin initially zeroed in on two key countries -- Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. These countries were said to be supporting the Islamic warriors in Dagestan and Chechnya. In response to this charge, Saudi Arabia denied giving support to the Islamic warriors. In a curious reversal, Russian officials welcomed this denial. If the Kremlin was not fishing for a scapegoat, if it had positive evidence of Saudi and Pakistani involvement, then why would the Kremlin welcome the Saudi denials? Perhaps some further enemy of Russia is to be assigned ultimate blame (in the fullness of time). One has to wonder. Perhaps that enemy is America, which has already been blamed for "looting Russia" and orchestrating NATO aggression against Russia's Serbian "brothers" in Eastern Europe. The immediate leaders of the Islamic incursion into Dagestan are Shamil Basayev and Habib Abdel Rahman Khattab. According to Russian reports, Basayev and Khattab did not receive support for their incursion from the people of Dagestan. The war is not an uprising of unhappy native Moslems. Instead, it is portrayed as an externally supported invasion of Russia. It has been claimed that Basayev and Khattab are relying on Islamic fighters from all over south and central Asia, as well as Chechnya. Basayev is a Chechen leader and Khattab is a Saudi-born Moslem veteran of the Afghan War. It is a strange fact that Basayev and Khattab come from conflicting Islamic traditions. Khattab comes from the Islamic fundamentalist tradition, which greatly differs from the liberal Sufi tradition of Basayev's Chechens. The inconsistencies of the alliance between Basayev and Khattab point to the fact that their Islamic cause is only a mask. Underneath that mask lies a secret network of KGB agents established during a Communist sponsored Islamic revival which was initiated by Gorbachev's Politburo in the late 1980s. Aiming at a controlled regeneration of Islam in Soviet Central Asia and the Caucasus, Gorbachev authorized the opening of Mosques and the publication of Islamic periodicals. Islamic holy men were admitted into the Soviet army to comfort Soviet Moslems. Mullahs were even put on Soviet television. It can be argued that the Communist-directed Islamic revival of ten years ago was part of a long-term preparation for a controlled civil war. This civil war now masks a general Russian mobilization of military and secret police resources. Tens of thousands of arrests have already taken place throughout Russia. Untold numbers of troops have been secretly mobilized. A state of undeclared emergency prevails in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and other former Soviet republics. And while this internal crisis supposedly absorbs the Russian military, Moscow's bombers nonetheless find time to aggressively probe U.S. air defenses in Alaska, as they did last Friday. When the United States sent fighters to intercept the Russian bombers and drive them back, the Kremlin howled with outrage. The bombers weren't violating Alaskan air space, said the Russians. They were merely traveling to the extreme tip of Russia. It is an odd time to be renewing the gamesmanship of the Cold War. In truth, military preparations and mobilizations continue throughout the former Soviet Union. As these words are written the Russian and Ukrainian Black Sea fleets are engaged in joint military exercises. We must not take today's turmoil in Russian at face value. The calculated bungling in Russia's past military campaign against Chechnya should be obvious to anyone who knows the competence of the Russian General Staff. Chechen independence is therefore a sham. Economic and geographical factors alone make real independence a virtual impossibility for the breakaway province. The old KGB structures held the region tightly for decades. All opposition was systematically crushed. In fact, the only opposition possible in that region would be an opposition created by the KGB itself for use in the future as "strategic camouflage." American observers need to be wary of outward appearances when it comes to modern Russia, which is a country founded on deception. It must be emphasized over and over again, that Russia's undeclared state of emergency now masks extensive war preparations. The Russian people are now being psychologically prepared for a war that might extend far beyond the borders of the Russian Federation. On Dec. 20. Mr. Putin -- who is now Russia's prime minister -- delivered an address to the Russian people on the occasion of the 82nd birthday of the Bolshevik secret police. He spoke of the glorious traditions of the KGB. He praised the efficiency and sophistication of the sword and shield of the Communist Party Soviet Union. We all need to remember that the KGB always maintained that the "main subversive forces" opposed to Russia were based in America and Great Britain. We should not be too surprised, therefore, if America is ultimately blamed for the civil war in Russia. Everyone knows that the CIA armed the Islamic warriors in Afghanistan. By extension, the CIA could be blamed for the Islamic warriors in Dagestan. In recent days we've been treated to a serious of sinister hints. One Russian official, speaking vaguely, recently said that "the giant would soon be destroyed in its lair." Behgjet Pacolli, a businessman accused of laundering millions in cash for the Kremlin, declared, "It's all a big joke. Today the joke is not understood, but in a little while you will get it." I fear that some of us already know the punch-line. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- J.R. Nyquist is a WorldNetDaily contributing editor and author of 'Origins of the Fourth World War.' DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. 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