March 31, 2008
AMERICA'S NEXT 9/11…
VIA RUSSIA WITH LOVE
By Paul Craig Roberts
(03-24-08 –
International Clearing House)
Conspiracy
theories tied to James Bond-type thrillers always make for a great
plot—but when they can possibly constitute reality in the real world,
that’s another matter. Paul C. Roberts piece on “America’s Next 9/11”
– along with a take off from Steve Alten’s new book, The Shell
Game, mixes truth and fiction—making the novel all the more
believable. Now we have investigative journalist Edward Jay Epstein
taking up the British 007-style thriller where Alexander Litvinenko, a
former KGB officer living in England, is assassinated via Russian
President Putin giving the go ahead via Andrei Lugovoi, using Polonium
2010—a highly destabilizing form of radiation poisoning.
M16-C.I.A. or PUTIN?
Litvinenko’s death was given full fury by the British and their compliant press . . . but such a means of death is highly suspect, as you’ll find out . . . what is more sinister is thing’s went awry somehow when Litvinenko, under contract with the Russian mogul, Boris Berezovsky, who sought asylum in the UK, after Putin put the heat on his financial shenanigans, screwed up the “transport” of the highly-contaminating Polonium 2010 to be used for “other purposes.”
Somehow – and this is where Epstein’s taking us – Polonium 2010 killed Litvinenko, but someone is behind this “thing” and it’s not Andrei Lugovoi allegedly sent by Putin to snuff Litvinenko. Instead the infamous suspect could be Berezovsky—and behind him another 9/11!
Could the C.I.A. have collaborated with M16 and Berezovsky in securing Polonium 2010 for another 9/11-style crisis? But when the effort went south, the onus was put on Putin and crew?
Only Information Clearing House could come up with such a wild conspiratorial plot—but, if you’re really convinced that 9/11 was wrought by certain characters within the Bush Administration – then this could make one whole lot of sense!
BEREZONVSKY-LITVINENKO vs. PUTIN-LUGOVOI
The
investigative journalist Edward Jay Epstein has taken up the Litvinenko
case.
The media used the
Litvinenko case as sensational propaganda against Russian President
Putin and then tossed it aside. For those whose memories of the case
have faded, Alexander Litvinenko was a former KGB officer living in
England who died in 2006, apparently from the radioactive isotope
Polonium-210.
The British government encouraged the tale that Russian President
Putin had sent Andrei Lugovoi to poison Litvinenko’s tea at a meeting
on November 1, 2006. The story appealed to people brought up on James
Bond thrillers, but the story never made any sense. Polonium 2-10 is a
rare and tightly controlled substance as likely to contaminate the
assassin as the victim. There are far easier and more effective ways
of killing someone.
Moreover, there is no evidence to connect Russia to Litvinenko’s
death. But this didn’t stop the British government from grandstanding,
sending an extradition request for Lugovoi in July 2007. The British
government sent the request despite the facts that there is no
extradition treaty between Britain and Russia and the Russian
constitution prohibits the extradition of Russian citizens. Epstein
suggests that the purpose of the extradition request was to block the
Russian government from investigating Litvinenko’s death in London.
Litvinenko had a false passport provided by the British government. A
real investigation might have opened up the shadowy world of security
consultants in which Litvinenko rubbed shoulders with former British
police and intelligence officials.
The Russians asked to see the evidence. The case file delivered by the
British contained nothing of substance. Not even the autopsy report
was provided to the Russians. Epstein managed to convince the Russians
to let him see the file and to question them about the case. In brief,
if the British have a case, they are withholding the evidence.
The charge that Putin was behind Litvinenko’s death seems to have
originated with Boris Berezovsky, one of the Russian Jewish oligarchs
who had grabbed the lion’s share of privatized Soviet assets during
Yeltsin’s presidency. Epstein
reports that Berezovsky’s protector in Russia was Litvinenko; the
deputy head of the organized crime unit of the Russian Federal
Security Service (FSB), the successor to the KGB. When Berezovsky fled
Russia to escape fraud charges, Litvinenko followed. Epstein reports
that Berezovsky has declared an agenda of “overthrowing the regime of
his archenemy, Mr. Putin.” According to Epstein, “Alex Goldfarb, the
executive director of Mr. Berezovsky’s foundation, prepared for
Litvinenko’s end by writing out his ‘deathbed’ statement, which,
according to Mr. Goldfarb, was drawn from statements Litvinenko had
dictated to him.”
Epstein
writes: “A few hours after Litvinenko died on November 23, 2006, Mr.
Goldfarb arranged a press conference and released the sensational
deathbed statement accusing Mr. Putin of the poisoning.” Web sites
supported by Berezovsky spread the story that Litvinenko was murdered
by the FSB.
The effort to link Putin and the FSB to Litvinenko’s death might be a
tale designed to cover-up a more serious crime in the making.
Polonium-210 is an indication that someone is trying to build a
nuclear weapon. Epstein finds reasons to suspect that Litvinenko had,
and perhaps Berezovsky has, connections to a Polonium smuggling
scheme, and Litvinenko’s death resulted from accidental or careless
exposure to Polonium-210.
THE PLOT THICKENS – THANKS TO I.C.H.
Who would be trying to build a secret nuclear weapon or perhaps
only a “dirty bomb” that would serve to spread some radiation and
massive amounts of fear and hysteria? The public has been carefully
prepared to suspect Iran. If such a device were exploded somewhere in
the United States, Bush, Cheney, and the neocon Nazis would have their
second new Pearl Harbor to justify their planned attack on Iran.
We know that the Bush regime wants to attack Iran. Despite the NIE
report that Iran abandoned its nuclear weapons program several years
ago and despite no signs of a weapons program having been uncovered by
IAEA inspectors, Bush, Cheney, and the neocon Nazis continue to
agitate for striking Iran “before it is too late.” Their politicized
military commander in Iraq, Gen. Petraeus, keeps insisting that Iran
is training Iraqi insurgents and supplying weapons that are killing US
troops. Bush and Cheney themselves have made trips to Europe and the
Middle East trying to marshal support for an attack on Iran. Anyone
who is not deaf, blind and stupid knows that the Bush regime is doing
everything it can to create circumstances that will permit a US attack
on Iran.
NONE DARE CALL IT CONSPIRACY!
We
know for a fact that the Bush regime created false evidence, lied, and
deceived in order to attack Iraq. All the reasons given for the US
invasion have proven to be false. The real agenda has never been
declared. Yet, five years later the traitors in high office who
deceived Americans into a war in behalf of a hidden agenda have not
been held accountable. As Agatha Christie said, getting away with one
murder makes it easy to commit another.
There is so much that Americans do not know about secret schemes
serving undeclared agendas. Those who have attempted to clue in fellow
citizens are invariably frustrated, because Americans have been
trained to dismiss the messenger who brings news of “false flag”
events as a “conspiracy theorist.”
Best-selling author Steve Alten in his recently published book,
The Shell Game, attempts to reach Americans with a thriller
that mixes fiction with fact. Alten describes a conspiracy, beginning
in 2007 and ending in 2012, by a Black Op group in a Republican
administration to set off nuclear weapons in two American cities, with
planted evidence pointing to Iran. It is a historical thriller
predictive of our immediate future by an author who has no illusions
about the US Government or the interest groups that control it.
Alten’s book is a first class thriller set in the real world of today.
It is a perfect read for Americans who need their dose of reality to
be watered down with fiction and delivered as entertainment.