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Monday, December 18, 2006 |
It looks like the Litvinenko fallout is slowly subsiding. It figures. CIA and MI6 have allowed this nuclear trafficker (or let's be honest: terrorist) to spread his dirty work all over Europe. How much the media may favour an anti-Putin outcome, the facts point to one thing: Litvinenko was a nuclear trafficker who was trying to sell his 'dirty bomb' to the highest bidder.
The Russian Defence Minister, Sergej Ivanov, declared that Litvinenko was not a spy, but originally worked in a police unit responsible for transporting prisoners. Due to lack of competent officers, the FSB hired people like Litvinenko. In 1998 Litvinenko was fired from the FSB for bad character. And 'bad character' in Russia means really bad character.
'He was never a spy and never knew anything of any real value to give to any (foreign intelligence) service,' Ivanov told foreign correspondents at a dinner late on Friday.
The Western media had pulled all stops and even went so far as to say Putin was gay. As if that would be so bad. Now, as the evidence points to nuclear trafficking and CIA/MI6 involvement, they are applying the brakes. It is simply inconceivable that CIA and MI6 didn't know anything about the dealings of the Berezovsky clan, who was actively engaged in the Chechen terror business and left a radioactive trail all over Europe.
The traffickers simply hadn't reckoned with the contamination risks or did not have the required protection.
Several nuclear lab workers had already mentioned that Polonium-210 is able to travel in strange ways. Even under maximum safety precautions it is able to contaminate neighbouring areas. Even if it cannot penetrate a sheet of paper, it is able to travel around it very easily. By air or magnetic attraction? I don't know. Some 'scientists' said the substance could be put on your hand without ill effects. Don't ever do that. It obviously can enter the windpipe or the gullet as microdust. But the traffickers didn't know this.
And our authorities are still protecting those terrorists, obviously for political reasons.
12:23:35 PM 
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UN: "A United Nations forum on Palestinian rights meeting in Malaysia has adopted a Declaration decrying recent deaths in the Middle East and calling for a new system to protect civilians there."
Independent: "During the Sabra and Chatila massacres - when Israel sent its enraged Lebanese Christian Phalangist militias into the camps after telling them that Palestinians had killed their beloved leader - up to 1,700 Palestinians were slaughtered. Israeli troops watched - and did nothing.
The Israeli novelist A B Yehoshua observed that, even if his country's soldiers had not known what was happening, 'then this would be the same lack of knowledge of the Germans who stood outside Buchenwald and Treblinka and did not know what was happening'.
After the killings of Jenin, an Israeli officer suggested to his men, according to the Israeli press, that, with close quarter fighting, they might study the tactics of Nazi troops in Warsaw in 1944.
No, Israelis are not Nazis. But it's time we talked of war crimes unless they stop these attacks on refugees."
With the knowledge we have of the holocaust, the Israeli official policy of genocide on a people that only has the wish to live on their own land, is unforgivable. We can't just look the other way and keep silent.
Guardian: "Today I am supporting a world-wide appeal to teachers, intellectuals and artists to join the cultural boycott of the state of Israel, as called for by over a hundred Palestinian academics and artists, and - very importantly - also by a number of Israeli public figures, who outspokenly oppose their country's illegal occupation of the Palestine territories of the West Bank and Gaza. Their call, printed in the Guardian today, can be read here."
11:21:33 AM
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TheNation: "For the first time since Vietnam, an organized, robust movement of active-duty US military personnel has publicly surfaced to oppose a war in which they are serving. Those involved plan to petition Congress to withdraw American troops from Iraq.
After appearing only seven weeks ago on the Internet, the Appeal for Redress, brainchild of 29-year-old Navy seaman Jonathan Hutto, has already been signed by nearly 1,000 US soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen, including dozens of officers - most of whom are on active duty. Not since 1969, when some 1,300 active-duty military personnel signed an open letter in the New York Times opposing the war in Vietnam, has there been such a dramatic barometer of rising military dissent."
The situation in Afghanistan is becoming similar to that in Iraq.
IHT: "France will withdraw its 200-soldier special-forces unit from Afghanistan, all of its ground troops engaged in the U.S anti-terror operation code-named Enduring Freedom, the authorities announced Sunday."
11:05:03 AM
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