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I Rejected the
Reebok Human Rights Award
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4, 2002
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Daley
Five
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Dear
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You've Misstated the
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Jensen
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and Guantanamo Porn
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26, 2002
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25, 2002
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February 6,
2002
Russian Military Intelligence:
The War on Iraq Will Be
Launched in September
Kurds to ally
with the US against Saddam
By Vladimir Georgiyev
The US is preparing to launch a series of wars
in the Middle East, according to sources in Russia's military
intelligence services. This is more likely to happen in September,
at the start of a new financial year. President George W. Bush
has announced a record level of US military spending: $29 billion
has been allocated for combating terrorism alone.
This time the Kurds in the region will
play the role of the Northern Alliance, which was allied with
the US in the Afghanistan war.
Preparations for the war are in full
swing. Together with other NATO member nations (Germany and
Italy) the US has been concentrating its military groups in
the Middle East. Thus far, this is being done under cover of
back-up for the counter-terrorist operation in Afghanistan.
But the main operations in Afghanistan have ended. The Pentagon
is unlikely to employ the major part of its forces to search
for Osama bin Laden in Central Asia. The terrorists are scattered,
and peaceful life now needs to be established in Afghanistan,
with the help of the global community.
Russian sources report that the US is
trying to use the Kurds - who are fighting for their independence
in Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran - as its main allies in removing
the current regimes in Iraq, Syria, and Iran. Since the break-up
of the USSR, Russia has retained quite a good network of secret
services in the areas where Kurds live in these countries. According
to sources in Russia's military intelligence services, the US
has already recruited leaders of the Kurdish communists, and
nearly finished financing projects to restore landing strips
in these districts. Weapons produced in the Soviet Union and
in Russia, familiar to the Kurds, have now been purchased for
them.
It is not clear as yet whether the Pentagon
will bomb Iran, Iraq and Syria at the same time, or whether
it will start with bombing Saddam Hussein. At least one of the
plans reported in the La Vanguardia newspaper (Spain) envisages
destruction of Hussein's regime within eight weeks. In the opinion
of the newspaper, the United States intends to eliminate the
Ground Forces and air bases of Iraq in extensive air strikes,
thus providing an opportunity to declare a "popular uprising".
Then, a controllable pro-western leader - Khamid Karzay of Afghanistan
- will be given the "throne."
Similar plans are to be carried out in
Syria, Iran and Turkey. Under the bammer of a peacekeeping mission,
the US and other NATO member states will settle themselves on
Kurdish territory and set up their bases, just as they have
done in Kosovo. The Baku-Ceyhan pipeline, its construction financed
by the US, will become the compensation for the separation of
Kurdistan from Turkey.
Such a change in the geo-political environment
will take a short time, Russia's military-diplomatic sources
believe; just as it didn't take long for the Americans to settle
in former Soviet republics of Central Asia. To date, Britain
remains Moscow's only ally in opposing the plans of the US.
The British government arranges information leaks to the press
regarding the "insane" measures the United States is
taking in the Middle East.
Russia is not taking any measures thus
far, apart from providing assurances via diplomats, supporting
Syria and Iran with armaments, and advising them on military
issues.
Sources in Russia's military intelligence
services conclude that if the US unleashes a war, it won't be
a "joke." The Kurdish factor will be pushed into the
background, and the war will be very bloody and fierce for the
United States. Russian politicians are reinterpreting these
conclusions in their hints. In this connection, statements by
Prime Minister Mikhail Kasianov and Defense Minister Sergei
Ivanov - that they do not approve of President Bush's plans to
continue the counter-terrorist operation against rogue states
- take on a clearer form.
(This article originally appeared in
the Russian paper Nezavisimaya Gazeta. Translated by Andrei
Ryabochkin)
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