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Putin and Russian government: Latest targets of the neo-cons and likely forged documents
The Pentagon's role as a source of media disinformation. First
it was the Office of Northern Gulf Affairs, which morphed into the Office of
Special Plans. Both served as conduits for neo-con propaganda spewed forth by
the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), Heritage Foundation, Washington Institute
for Near East Policy (WINEP), the Hudson Institute, the American Israel Public
Affairs Committee (AIPAC), among others prior to the invasion of Iraq.
Now the Pentagon has issued an "unclassified report" stating that
in the lead up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Russia obtained war plans and planned
U.S. troop movements from “inside the American Central Command.”
The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) denied the charge, stating that
"similar, baseless accusations concerning Russia’s intelligence have
been made more than once."
The Pentagon cited as its source two captured Iraqi documents that describe
Russian penetration of the US Central Command in Qatar. However, the Pentagon's
story later changed. The revised story stated the Russian obtained the war plans
from signals intelligence intercepts of pre-war U.S. military communications.
In either case, the citing of "captured" Iraqi documents has been
used in the past to falsely implicate various anti-war international politicians
with being in league with Saddam's "Oil for Food" program. Many of
these "captured" documents were forgeries emanating from notorious
Iraqi con man Ahmad Chalabi. Bogus Niger government documents were forged by
a neo-con cabal based in Rome, Washington, and Jerusalem to justify an attack
on Iraq based on non-existent weapons of mass destruction. The information contained
in the two "secret" Iraqi documents could have been obtained from
any number of open sources, including Jane's Defence Weekly. The "sic"
appearing next to "special forces unit 'Papa'" in the purported Iraqi
documents is a clue to a forgery. The standard NATO/DoD phonetic code for the
letter "P" is "Papa." Why the authors would indicate a possible
misspelling of Papa in the document is curious unless its because the real authors
include some of our most noted neo-con draft dodgers who are unfamiliar with
U.S. and NATO military nomenclatures. The two secret Iraqi documents are handwritten
and contain no official government seal or stamps, another clear indication
of a forgery.
The neo-con stranglehold on the Pentagon continues to permit this cabal of provocateurs
and dual loyalists to pump out false charges in an attempt to damage relations
with Russia and President Vladimir Putin as Russia continues to push for negotiations
with Iran and lay the possible groundwork for Russian casualties at Iranian nuclear
facilities in the event of war with Iran. Neo-cons would argue that such casualties
were legitimate considering previous Russian support for Saddam against the United
States.
In fact, the Pentagon neo-cons now have more power than ever considering the
current presence of anti-Russian neo-con-influenced governments in Poland, Ukraine,
and Georgia. Polish Defense Minister Radek Sikorski, an AEI alum and colleague
of Richard Perle and Michael Ledeen, is married to the Washington Post's Anne
Applebaum. All four are virulently anti-Putin, especially since Putin began
cracking down on the Russian oligarchs who looted the USSR's treasury and resources
and made themselves instant billionaires, at the expense of the peoples of the
former Soviet Union.
Over 70 percent of Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs carry Israeli passports.
Ukraine President Viktor Yuschenko's wife, Kateryna Chumachenko Yushchenko,
is an American citizen and held positions in the Reagan White House that were
directed against "the evil empire." She was, and remains, close to
the leading neo-con war hawks of the Reagan years, including Perle, Ledeen,
Douglas Feith, Paul Wolfowitz, and Ken Adelman. Georgia's President, Mikhail
Saakashvili, in an anti-Putin U.S.-trained lawyer who ousted his predecessor
in a U.S.-financed and supported coup backed by oil companies like Halliburton
and Exxon Mobil. In addition to the offices of AEI, AIPAC, Hudson, WINEP, and
Heritage, in addition to the Pentagon, the embassies of Poland, Ukraine, and
Georgia in Washington have become virtual neo-con nesting places, working overtime
to formulate all sorts of anti-Russian propaganda aimed at destabilizing Russia
and toppling Putin. They are assisted in these efforts by the US Mission to
the United Nations, which under arch neo-con John Bolton, has become a favorite
off-site meeting place for Washington-based neo-cons right in the middle of
Manhattan.
The two latest possible forgeries, courtesy of the neo-con disinformation
machine:
Secret and Urgent
Keep your enemy before your eyes, act before he does, and do not let
him behind your back.
-- President Saddam Hussein (God keep and preserve him)
Date: March 25, 2003
To: The Office of the President, Mr. Secretary
Subject: American Aggression against Iraq
First: The Russian ambassador informed us on the evening of March 24,
2003 of the following:
Point 1: In relation to the position paper that we delivered to them
on March 23, 2003 (the subject of our report 459 dated March 23, 2003),
he noted that the Russian foreign minister is in agreement. The time has
come to raise the subject of American aggression against Iraq in the [UN]
Security Council. For this reason, he has directed the Russian envoy to
the UN to meet with his counterparts from China, France, Syria, and Germany
to discuss elements of the Iraqi position paper and to prepare a draft
resolution to present to the [Security] Council. The Russian foreign minister
feels that the resolution's chances of success in the Security Council
are nil because the Anglo-Saxons have a veto. But Russia considers talks
in the Security Council important to convey that the American-British
military effort consists of aggression and the unilateral use of force
in violation of international law, the UN Charter, and Security Council
resolutions. If the Security Council fails to adopt the resolution, the
matter will be transferred to the UN General Assembly. The Russian foreign
minister proposes that Iraq coordinate with Arab countries and the non-aligned
movement to demand the holding of a session of the Council.
Point 2: As concerns the proposals by Kofi Annan to introduce changes
to the Oil for Food program, the Russian foreign minister has directed
Russia's permanent representative to the UN to freeze any discussion of
Kofi Annan's proposals. There will be a meeting in Paris on March 27 at
the level of departments within the foreign ministries of Russia, France,
China, and Germany, to agree on proposals about the program that these
countries will present.
Point 3: Information Russia has obtained from its sources in the U.S.
Central Command in Doha [Qatar] indicates that the Americans have concluded
that the occupation of Iraqi cities is impossible. They have changed their
approach and now intend to spread out along the Euphrates River from Al-Basrah
in the south to Al-Qa'im in the north, avoiding entering cities. The goal
is to cut Iraq off from its Western border. The Americans also plan to
occupy oil wells in Kirkuk.
Point 4: Information received indicates that Jordan has agreed to accept
the American 4th Mechanized [Infantry] Division. It had been decided that
this division would enter Turkey, but after the Turkish parliament's refusal
to permit it entry, it changed direction and it is crossing the Suez Canal
at present and is expected to arrive in Aqaba.
Point 5: The Russian ambassador noted that two days ago he gave us [information]
on American special forces units Delta and Papa [sic] based on information
from Russian intelligence (the subject of our report 446 dated March 20,
2003). He did not have instructions to convey to us the above-mentioned
information. Yesterday, Iraqi intelligence officers contacted their counterparts
at the Russian embassy and inquired about the matter, noting that the
Russian ambassador in Baghdad was the one who gave them this information.
This caused him embarrassment. He would like us not to mention in discussions
with other Russian agencies the source of the information that he is giving
us.
Second: Pursuant to the resolution of the Arab Foreign Ministers' Conference
dated March 24, 2003, the Arab group in the UN held a meeting on the evening
of March 24, 2003 and decided to send a letter to the chairman of the
Security Council demanding an immediate emergency session of the Security
Council [to ensure] a halt to the American-British aggression against
Iraq; the immediate withdrawal of hostile forces beyond the borders of
the Republic of Iraq; respect for Iraq's sovereignty, political independence,
and territorial unity; and a ban on [other] countries' interference in
its internal affairs. Kuwait objected to sending the letter.
The Arab group also discussed the issue of presenting a draft resolution
to the Security Council and considered it appropriate to consult with
the non-aligned movement to present a draft resolution that has the support
of at least nine members of the Council so that it does not have a negative
effect and so the Americans cannot use it to lend legitimacy to the aggression
if the draft resolution fails in the Council without a veto.
Elsewhere, our permanent representative to the UN met with the Malaysian
representative. It was agreed that Malaysia, acting in the name of the
non-aligned movement, will present a demand for an emergency session of
the Security Council on the American aggression against Iraq.
For your information. With respect,
Humam Abd-al-Khaliq
Acting Foreign Minister
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Document No. 2 (cmpc-2003-001950)
[Handwritten, undated]
To: Office of the President, Mr. Secretary
Re: Meeting with the Russian Ambassador
Our warmest greetings!
We would like to inform you that the Russian ambassador
met this evening with the general director for external economic relations
and the general director for grain trade and he informed us of the following:
1. The provision of facilities for the departure of Russian
specialists working on projects belonging to our ministry without delay
for the period March 5-8, with the last plane departing on March 9,
as he conveyed. He explained that the request for the evacuation of
Russian citizens came at the order of the Russian president.
2. He explained that Russia has been working with France
and Germany, and it is expected that they will be joined by Syria and
China, to prepare a draft Security Council resolution in response to
the U.S.-British resolution that has been presented to the [UN] Security
Council. Voting will take place on the two resolutions on March 9. He
indicated that it is expected that a number of countries on the Security
Council will abstain, including Pakistan, Chile, and Kenya.
3. During this meeting the ambassador presented the following
information about the American military presence in the Gulf and the
region as of March 2:
- Number of forces: 206,500, including 98,000 marines
and 36,500 infantry. Ninety percent of these forces are in Kuwait and
on American military vessels.
- American forces have also reached Bubiyan Island
- Number of tanks: 480
- Number of armored vehicles: 1,132
- Number of artillery pieces: 296
- Helicopters (Apache): 735
- Fighter planes: 871
- Units of the American fleet: 106, including 68 in the Gulf and the
remainder in Oman, Aden, the Red Sea, and the Mediterranean
- Number of aircraft carriers: 5, including one nuclear-powered [carrier];
three of them are in the Gulf, one in the Mediterranean, and the other
in [unclear, ed.]
- Number of cruise missiles: 583, belonging to the American navy, distributed
among 22 naval vessels
- Number of aircraft-borne cruise missiles: 64
- Number of heavy planes (B-52H) in the Indian Ocean: 10
- Number of B-1B at the American base in Oman (Thumrait): 8
4. The ambassador indicated that what concerns us is the
increase in the number of planes in Jordan. He explained that the number
of these planes at Al-Salt base is now as follows:
- 24 F-16s
- 10 Tornadoes - 11 Carriers [F-18s]
He also indicated that there are five A-10 tank killers
at the King Faisal base in Jordan.
5. The ambassador also indicated that a number of individuals
from the 82nd [Airborne] Division have begun arriving Kuwait. This division
was located in Afghanistan, and the number of individuals who have arrived
is 750. |
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