Dear friends,
Just wanted to let you know that I will be hitting the road from April 12th to April 22nd. I will be driving up and down the USA, something like 2’500 miles in 10 days, so while I will have an Android smartphone with me and while I will have access to a computer on a regular basis, I might take me longer than usual to reply to posts and emails. I ask for your indulgence.
Many thanks and kind regards,
The Saker
Have a safe trip Saker!
Hopefully the world wont fall apart while you’re gone, but these days we can’t be sure.
I wish you a nice trip !
Have agood vacation. But if this rumor-filled article turns out to be more than just hot air, will you kindly consider posting during your vacation:
Russia is massing troops on Iran’s border and waiting for a western attack, planning a move through Georgia to stage in Armenia.
Get a nice trip, Saker. Will you announce when you come back to your very appreciated regular schedule of political analysis?
Regards
@Everybody – thanks for your good wishes!
@Everybody – if the proverbial bovine excreta hits the fan, I will be posting here, no worry (even if I post off my smartphone if needed)
@EVERYBODY: please consider this comments section as a “free for all” – post whatever you want, talk to each other, send me a message (I will try to reply), and remember, there is no such thing as off-topic on my blog :-)
@AA: Interesting article, not that bad at all. Consider this though:
I) The former North-Caucasus Military District, now reorganized into the Southern Strategic Direction, is by far the most important one from Russia. After the two Chechen wars and the 08.08.08 war against Georgia, and with tensions in Iran, Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, this is *THE* number one military priority. So the fact that this direction is being reinforced does not mean that this is linked to Iran. Its basically sound policy for Russia to do so.
II) There are two things which Russia will do if the US-Israeli axis attacks Iran: monitor the events very very closely (spy) and make sure that it does not spill into Russia or its allies. Russia will not, repeat *NOT*, wage war on the USA over Iran. If only, because Iran does not need that to begin with.
III) Russia can assist Iran far more effectively by sharing intelligence with it. That is effective and very low-profile, and it does not leave “fingerprints” or hurt Iranian national sovereignty or pride. Before Desert Storm Evgenii Primakov traveled to Baghdad and showed Saddam the satellite imagery clearly proving that a) the Americans were poised to attack and b) that they would do the now famous “hook” around Iraqi forces. Saddam was a lunatic and an arrogant idiot. The Iranians are very smart and very careful. Unlike Saddam, they will make excellent use of Russian intelligence.
As for the facts in the article (which I admittedly scanned rapidly – need to go to work now), they all seem credible to me and match up with what I know. Its the speculation which I would dismiss.
HTH. Cheers,
The Saker
@AA: one more thing: the so called “Russian military expert” (who is neither Russian, nor military, nor an expert) quoted in the article, Pavel Felgenhauer, who writes for the Jamestown Foundation (sigh, rolleyes), is a rabid russophobe and Zio-propagandist. Ignore anything that creep writes. Cheers!
What do you make of this Saker the possibility that Shamil Basayev was in Atlanta, Georgia in 2000 as part of a Chechen terrorist cell connected to 9/11?
http://hawkofpandora.com/page9.php
Left.ru website take on the revelation.
http://left.ru/2012/1/burtsev212.phtml
It may not mean anything coming from a Georgian opposition figure but he claims Georgia is preparing for another conflict with Russia which is to be expected as control of the Caspian basin is the NWO’s No1 foreign policy objective.
http://rt.com/politics/saakashvili-opposition-war-georgia-560/
@Jack:What do you make of this Saker the possibility that Shamil Basayev was in Atlanta, Georgia in 2000 as part of a Chechen terrorist cell connected to 9/11?
I don’t believe that hte Chechen insurgents were involved in 9/11 in any way. As for Basayev being in the USA, dunno, sorry.
claims Georgia is preparing for another conflict with Russia
Don’t believe that either. The Russians are much better prepared today for such a contingency and the outcome would be even more devastating for the Georgians that in 2008.
Cheers!
@VINEYARDSAKER
Ryan Dawson (Ry2sense) recently did a good documentary on the Israel WTC bombings connection on 9/11 where he makes a good case that the 4th hijack plane was to crash into building 7.
http://vimeo.com/39578648
“I don’t believe that hte Chechen insurgents were involved in 9/11 in any way. As for Basayev being in the USA, dunno, sorry.”
The evidence is overwhelming of the Chechen connection to 9/11 from the guy in Turkey who provide the passports, financial centres know to finance Chechen terrorism and NGO’s, pre-9/11 warnings and sources linked to Chechnya and nearly all if not all the hijackers were either originally recruited or did fight in Chechnya.
At a minimum the attack was carried out via this western intelligence created European and North America Bosnia-Chechen network which at least two US intelligence sources admit the US was aiding Chechen terrorism prior to 9/11.
What I said in September that the original 9/11 plot was a staged hijacking and landing of the planes in the US organised by US and European intelligence as a media event to put public pressure on Russia to withdraw its forces from Chechnya is the only viable explanation that links all the pieces together that Bin Ladin himself partially admitted in the famous 9/11 confession tape discovered in Afghanistan.
@jack:The evidence is overwhelming of the Chechen connection to 9/11
Depends on how you define “connection”. The folks who did 9/11 used their longtime Jihadi proxies who, of course, all had resumes with numerous connections to Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Chechnia, to put up the smokescreen of the “Muslims did 9/11” and all the rest of the official fairy tale. But these jihadis were simple patsies (to use Oswlad’s expression), not actual organizers. BTW – this “middle-eastern” (pseudo-)link was also tested at the Oklahoma City bombings, but then later dropped. Ditto for the Merah case in France, or 7/7 in London, or the Red Brigades in Gladio – there is always an “official” bad guy or “terror organization” designated to be the bogeyman, and on 9/11 it was the jihadi crazies. The real puppeteers are, IMHO, in the USA and Israel, of course.
Ryan Dawson (Ry2sense) recently did a good documentary on the Israel WTC bombings connection on 9/11
Really? Can you provide a name and (better) a link?
So far the best one I have seen is “Fabled Enemies” which does as well as can be done with only indirect evidence of Israeli involvement (which I do not doubt, but there is still zero hard evidence for that; and Sabrosky’s loud statements are, for the time being, back by absolutely no evidence at all…)
@VINEYARDSAKER:
The 9/11 pre-intelligence warnings were very specific that there was a hijacking attack linked to terrorist Khattab with the FBI informant being an American jihadist who has a Chechen wife plus various other direct connections.
Really? Can you provide a name and (better) a link?
“911 and the cover up by Ryan Dawson”
He said he tried to upload it on YouTube but they would not let him, so for now Vimeo is the only option.
http://youtu.be/p6z5LpRFqrU
So far the best one I have seen is “Fabled Enemies” which does as well as can be done with only indirect evidence of Israeli involvement (which I do not doubt, but there is still zero hard evidence for that; and Sabrosky’s loud statements are, for the time being, back by absolutely no evidence at all…)
He covers the timeline with the trucks moving the explosives from the FBI report which I found online in a link to another users video on Israeli involvement in 9/11..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy_z0fzkU_8
http://www.takeourworldback.com/dancingisraelisfbireport.htm
..and the murder in an identity fraud case in the US where the main witness was murdered that was suspected in providing Mossad with the fake ID documents to gain access to the WTC prior to 9/11.
There is or was a video segment of that on YouTube but I don’t know the name of it and can’t find it.
@jack:He said he tried to upload it on YouTube but they would not let him, so for now Vimeo is the only option.
No prob, I downloaded it and I will watch it during my trip. Thanks!