Larisa Alexandrovna @ HuffPo: Bombing Russia And Media Censorship...

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larisa-alexandrovna/bombing-russia-and-media_b_278527.html

Larisa Alexandrovna
Investigative Journalist and Writer
Posted: September 6, 2009 08:45 PM

Bombing Russia and Media Censorship

I think this is a serious first for news. As I noted days ago, GQ spiked their article on allegations that the Russian FSB (and their Putin regime) were behind the 1999 false-flag bombings in Russia. The article was not run in Russia at all and was hardly marketed in the US. So Gawker scanned pages of the actual article in English and asked its readers to help translate it into Russian. The result? The Russian article that should have run - and pretty well translated actually. Check out both the English language scans they have up and the Russian translation. Congrats to the entire group project on this.

But let me just remind everyone that about 3 years ago, I reported very similar allegations as they related to the assassination of Alexander Litvinenko. My sources believed that SVR was involved in the Litvinenko hit and possibly some elements of the FSB. But the key allegations made in the GQ piece about the 1999 bombings implicated the FSB. Mine did as well. Moreover, my sources implicated the FSB in the Beslan Massacre (to which Politkovskaya was headed to report when she was poisoned, but survived - the second attempt on her life was successful. she was assassinated in October of 06).

Just as an fyi for those who do not know, SVR and the FSB together used to be what was known as the KGB. When the KGB was broken apart, these organizations were regrouped, but much of the Cold War elements, such as the S Directorate still exist.

The GQ info is using sourcing different from my own, but focusing entirely on the FSB. In any case, here is what I wrote in 06:

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The Gawker translation is of extreme importance. The fact that there is almost an entire media black-out of these allegations is astonishing. Why is this so important?

Because during a much earlier period, Europe was rocked by the same allegations. In particular, elements of the Italian military were revealed to have bombed their own people in order to frame a left leaning group, members of which ended up in prison.

This operation was called Gladio.

That kind of abuse of power, if it goes unchecked, is dangerous to every country and every person. Gladio affected nearly every Western European nation without the leadership of that nation even being aware at the time.

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And just like with the bombings in Russia, the US media made little attempt to report the Gladio horrors.

So if you have not heard of this, don't worry, you are not alone.

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[juno jones]

1. K&R! n/t

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2. and people wonder why

i have a hard time believing that al queda even exists.