Apr 03 2007
Berezovsky & Zakayev Not So Cooperative
Seems Berezovsky and Zakayev where not as cooperative as they said they needed to be in order to assist Scotland Yard in the Litvinenko. Seems they decided to not answer half the questions put to them:
nvestigator Alexander Otvodov of the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office questioned political emigrant Boris Berezovsky in London on Friday for the case concerning the murder of former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko. Otvodov said on Monday that Berezovsky did not answer half of the 100 questions asked to him. Berezovsky stated that Otvodov was asking him about things of no relation to the murder.
The problem is if these questions had nothing to do with the murder the why not answer them? The facade is falling off Berezovksy’s image as a cooperating witness (with Po-210 found in many places inside his office). Chechen Zakayev did the same thing:
“I met with the investigator of the Prosecutor General’s Office in the building of Scotland Yard, in the presence of a British officer who was questioning me following the list of questions prepared by the Russian investigators. The questions were translated by the interpreter,†said Zakaev. “There were about 50 questions, but only few concerned Litvinenko’s case. For instance, five or six questions were about Badri Patarkatsishvili, some twenty – about Berezovsky, and about YUKOS employees that I do not know at all.â€
Zakaev added that he did not answer many questions that he believed had no relation to Litvinenko’s case: “Scotland Yard officer was interrupting the interrogation every 15 minutes to tell me that I have the right to leave any question unanswered or to stop the interrogation. So I used that right.â€
These responses are very different in tone than those we see from Lugovoi and Kovtun who were questions previously in Moscow by UK authorities. Berezovksy and Zakayev appear to be not only defensive, but trying to get ahead of the leaks that will be coming out (the interrogations where video recorded). Kovtun and Lugovoi were much more circumspect and saying they had agreed to not discuss details. They are acting more like cooperating witnesses than Berezovsky and Zakayev. And it seems Zakayev has provided us even stronger connections between Litvinenko and Chechen rebels who have been waging a violent insurgency with Russia – including the taking of a School and killing children in Beslan. Here is Zakayev discussing Litvinenko’s assistance to the Chechen rebel cause:
Zakaev thinks that Litvinenko might have been killed for cooperating with Chechen authorities. “He was a member of the Committee for investigating war crimes in Chechnya created by Aslan Maskhadov. Litvinenko submitted names of generals guilty of violence against peaceful civilians, and provided documents that compromised Russian authorities, to us,†said Zakaev.
I think it is safe to say that, at best, both sides have had brutal moments. But the Chechens are the ones who took a school and killed children, attacked a movie theatre and placed a nuclear dirty bomb in the center of Moscow. To ally with these kinds of people is not to ally with good and decent cause like freedom.
Berezofsky has enough money to stay out of jail.
And, England’s gone to hell in a handbasket.
Perhaps? What we’re seeing in England, these days, is how marketeers go about picking up countries on the cheap?
Berezofsky was “dealing in something.” But the science went awry.
How did Litvinenko get killed? And, WHY, in the process does he look like Hansel, from the Hansel and Gretal tail of living breadcrumbs?
Well, lots of birds came along, and chewed up the trail.
Not a difficult concept to understand, if you’re familiar with fairy tales.
NOW. For the reason WHY!
You see, England’s divested itself of all police and military protections. She’s absolutely NAKED, now. In a den of thieves.
SO? Whatever happens “next” will be done by terror.
And, Tony Baloney Blair has made it possible for many Americans to cast their eyes across the pond. Where they see what George Washington SAW!
WE made it as a Republic! The Brits continuously did stuff to us to hurt our chances. Including NOT protecting OUR SHIPS AT SEA: when the early times meant losing sea trade could have caused our Republic to collapse. It’s one of those LONG HAUL miracles; that we thrived.
And, we got rid of the slavery issue. WHich the Brits PUT HERE! But not in England. Why? Because HERE we weren’t supposed to ever be strong enough to govern ourselves. And, in England? They had a class system that gave them servants. Until WW1 came along. And, changed a lot of that.
But europe is beset with elites. Who go to universities. And, who have substituted the crap that flowed out of germany. Believing in that crap as if it was a religion.
Since FDR saw the rize of hitler as well as anybody. He also tapped into American frustration. europe was nearly consumed; before FDR even dropped into American homes, to do a Fireside Chat. In February 1942. First telling Americans they should all go out and buy maps.
In one speech, FDR ended the isolationist’s hold. And, we went to war.
We out-performed the germans. And, the japs. Once we put our industrial might to it, what we produced was awe-inspiring.
Even if you go to D-Day. And, you see the carnage at the beaches; what you don’t realize is WHAT WE PUT ASHORE!
There were about 100,000 germans that became captives. And, their jaws dropped! We put a million pieces of equipment in the field. We turned the waters off the Continent into a distribution center, that would have made Sam Walton proud! UN-BELIEVABLE.
Europe never recovered. They still hate us. ANd, they’re still stuck on those german books that brought such ruin to the european communities.
You think I care? Lesss than you know.
It wasn’t a movie theater. You don’t even have that right.
Some of the people involved in the theater take-over have histories with the Russian intelligence, so I read.
Your “facts” are coming from the Russians.
Russian policemen caught KGB planting a bomb in an apartment–red-handed. And the KGB claimed they were practicing.
It is not clear that Chechens are doing the things you say. These may be KGB provocations.
You need to read into the background of this. Read Litvinenko’s book. Read Politkovskaya’s books.
Read Satter’s book Darkness at Dawn.
http://legendofpineridge.blogspot.com/2007/03/polonium-poisoning-and-russian.html
9-11 was a great thing for the Russians. Whe our buildings were bombed, it gave them a free hand in Chechnya because they could depict it was a “war on terrorism.”
You might want to read up on why Paul Joyal thinks it was the Putin forces who did the polonium. I mean, Joyal was shot for saying it. And the British writer Dan McGrory, who was researching the Polonium story for the London Times died unexpectedly after appearing with Joyal on Dateline.
You aren’t telling what the dead people have been saying.
Zakhaev supported America’s role in Iraq.
He was a former Soviet military officer who denounced the terrorism against Russian and Chechen people.
He was elected president of Chechnya but undermined by the Russians, who may have temporarily backed Basaev, a real terrorist, in order to undermine Maskhadov.
You aren’t reporting anything but your conspiracy theory. You have no facts from the British and just innuendo from Russians.
You have not looked at what all these dead people are saying.
Lets clear some things about “FSB provocations”.
On December 11 1994 Russian forces attack Grozny. First Chechen war bagan.
In July 1996, Yeltsin was re-elected as president.
War ended with Khasav-Urt peace treaty in August 16, 1996 – It was de facto independence of Chechnya.
The first bombing occurred November 16, 1996 destroyed an apartment building in Kaspiysk 69 people died, 3 people died on April 23, 1997 when a bomb exploded in Armavir, 2 two died on May 28, 1997, in the railway station of Pyatigorsk, on March 19, 1999. 51 people died in an explosion which occurred in the central market of Vladikavkaz.
“Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade” led by Shamil Basayev invaded the Russian republic of Dagestan on August,7 1999.
(By mid-September 1999 the militants were were pushed back into Chechnya.)
August 16, 1999 state Duma approved Putin appointment as Prime Minister.
Bomb blast in shopping mall – 1 person killed in Moscow on August 31, 1999 . On September 4, 1999, a car bomb detonated in Buynaksk, Dagestan – 64 people died. September 8, 1999 explosives detonated on apartment building in Moscow – 94 people killed. September 13, 1999 bombing attack in Moscow again – 118 people died. Truck bomb exploded September 16, 1999 in Volgodonsk killing 17 people.
The Russian army invaded to Chechnya on October 5, 1999. Second Chechen war began.
On December 31, 1999, Yeltsin resigned and, according to the constitution, Putin became (acting) President of the Russian Federation.
Russian army seized Grozny on February 2, 2000.
Putin won president election on March 26, 2000.
During period between June 2000 and September 2004 there have been 23 Chechen related suicide attacks in and outside Chechnya.
October 5, 2003 – Akhmad Kadirov elected as president of Chechen Republic.