Russia Says Kills Chechen Rebel With Links to CIA

NNN0LHI

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Wed Mar-23-05 05:09 PM
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Russia Says Kills Chechen Rebel With Links to CIA

http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/03/23/chitigov.shtml

Field commander Rizvan Chitigov has been killed in Chechnya during a raid carried out by pro-Moscow security forces and the republic’s Interior Ministry troops, the Itar-Tass news agency cited the republic’s first deputy prime minister Ramzan Kadyrov.

“Chitigov was surrounded and eliminated after he put up armed resistance,” Kadyrov was quoted by the news agency as saying.

Chitigov, aka American or Suraka, born 1965, was placed on the federal wanted list on suspicion of being involved in kidnappings. In the early 1990s Chitigov visited the United States and upon his return he oversaw military intelligence in Aslan Maskhadov’s government.

The FSB, Russia’s domestic security service, suspected that Chitigov had been maintaining ties with foreign intelligence services and was himself a CIA agent, former FSB spokesman Aleksandr Zdanovich said in April 2001.

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w4rma

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Wed Mar-23-05 05:11 PM
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1. Who knows who is telling the truth about this. (nt)

Edited on Wed Mar-23-05 05:11 PM by w4rma

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NNN0LHI

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Wed Mar-23-05 05:23 PM
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2. Past actions count. We know the CIA did support Osama bin Laden...

Edited on Wed Mar-23-05 05:30 PM by NNN0LHI

...when he fought the Soviets for us. There is no question about that.

Don

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Hard Attack

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Wed Mar-23-05 05:57 PM
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3. Bush was on the Chechens Side when he rain for Office in 1999

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That is a fact. He was totally against the Russians fighting the Chechens.

So a CIA Link with Chechens is not out of the question at all.

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bobthedrummer

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Wed Mar-23-05 07:02 PM
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4. There's been a spook war going on for years now.

Edited on Wed Mar-23-05 07:09 PM by bobthedrummer

Integrity and accountability have disappeared entirely.
Old scores are being "settled".

It is no longer unusual to hear of intelligence ties spoken publicly in these cases.

Putin is going to Israel next month, that will add a new twist to all this spookwar stuff imo.

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NNN0LHI

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Thu Mar-24-05 10:56 AM
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5. kick

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psychopomp

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Thu Mar-24-05 11:02 AM
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6. Hello

What's this? The anti-red thawed-out Reagan holdovers have been busy trying to make themselves relavent by rekindling a cold war..

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NNN0LHI

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Thu Mar-24-05 11:09 AM
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7. Here is a little more about this CIA guy

http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=1860378&PageNum=0

GROZNY, March 23 (Itar-Tass) - Chechen gang leader Rizvan Chitigov who was destroyed in a police operation, had been involved in terrorist attacks in Moscow and the Chechen republic, and took part in the execution of the four kidnapped OSCE officials in 1999, an official said.

"Chitigov, 40, is involved in the abduction and killing of four OSCE personnel in 1999," the official from the regional headquarters for the anti-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus said.

According to the headquarters' information, he personally took part in their execution.

Chitigov is believed to be a mastermind behind the explosion in Moscow's Manezh Square in 1999 and the terrorist attacks against Chelyabinsk police in the town of Argun in 2000.

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bpilgrim

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Thu Mar-24-05 06:06 PM
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9. BUSH LOST THE COLD WAR

after it was already WON.

that's a pretty big slip-up that doesn't get much notice by the M$MW.

i wonder why :shrug:

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psychopomp

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Thu Mar-24-05 07:49 PM
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11. A self-retraction

I jumped the gun by laying blame too quickly at the feet of our revitalized Reagan-era holdovers. The article reports that Chitigov visited the US in "the early 1990s" which means that he has likely been one of ours for more than the last four years.

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psychopomp

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Thu Mar-24-05 06:03 PM
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8. This info needs to go in the Demopedia

before it gets lost and not followed up on by our news media. Is anybody making updates on a regular basis?

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NNN0LHI

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Thu Mar-24-05 07:26 PM
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10. Notice no one even here wants to touch this story?

Same shit as when the CIA was supporting Osama bin Laden and the rest of his shithead friends in Afghanistan during the 1980's. In a few years someone will say "oh my goodness, I didn't know that was going on". Just wait and see.

Don

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makhno

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Thu Mar-24-05 08:11 PM
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12. Chechnya isn't black and white, hence the lack of response

On the one hand, one can see some sort of legitimacy to the claims for independence. On the other, the separatists' reliance on Islamic fundamentalism, brutality and their ties to neo-liberal circles in the US and the EU make supporting the guerilla difficult.

This is doubtlessly important news, especially considering Washington's publicly unconditional engagement in the "global war on terror." The Afghan parallel is quite appropriate, since now as then, our government is entertaining strangely close relations with forces that are ostensibly opponents of Western, and in particular American, interests.

News like this is what fuels the MIHOP theories, and lack of familiarity with such information is what fuels those that dismiss "conspiracies" out of hand. And yet, how can one ignore the rather obvious fact that in a lot of cases, our supposed enemies do play rather adeptly into the hands of US policy?

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NNN0LHI

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Thu Mar-24-05 08:15 PM
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13. One of the most coherent posts I have ever read on DU. Thank you n/t

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