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Russia's role in the 9/11 attacks
After the KGB disbanded after the fall of the Soviet Union, various successor agencies came out of the smoke, the main one being the FSB. Remember that the FSB has been suspected of being behind major attacks INSIDE Russia in the late 1990s and early 2000s. More on that later.
But then there's this gem that's never gotten much press:
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Now yes, I know, Litvinenko had said a lot of weird **** over the years before he died, but in my opinion you have to at least consider some of the more practical allegations. It's interesting that Vladimir Putin was the first world leader to reach out to President Bush after the 9/11 attacks. In 1999, he also very prematurely placed the blame of massive terror attacks in Russia on the Chechens. In reality, only FSB agents were arrested for planting explosives, and released. I want to include this article, which has more details about his stay, what little there is, anyway.
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As a bonus, there's also the curious case of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing I've brought up before. Yuri Felshtinsky pointed out in 2013 that known Chechen extremists were allowed free passage through various Russian cities and territories prior to their journey back to the U.S.
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Interesting.
This is naturally going to be difficult to prove, especially following the murder of Litvinenko, and I notice that the articles also point to possible links with Iranian intelligence, as well as the more well-known ones to the Saudi and Pakistani secret services. I wonder, though, how well this has worked out for Russia. It might have looked like a good idea to disrupt the US, and try to weaken it by encouraging jihadist attacks. However, as Russia is now fighting those same jihadists in Syria, and has suffered a number of domestic terror attacks as a consequence, this may be coming back to bite them. You'd think they would have looked at the American example, in which the US aid to the mujahideen, funnelled via the Pakistani ISI, and the subsequent US abandonment of Afghanistan, created a situation in which the Taliban could flourish, and Afghanistan be consumed by civil war. Realpolitik is a dangerous game. |
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As for the dogs biting the handlers, we know that there were several real attacks on Russian targets from terrorists during the Chechen wars, even as some faction of Russian intelligence seemed to be working behind the scenes for a few others (apartment bombings, Nord Ost, etc). The hostile feedback is what kept his agenda going strong, he was able to portray them as freedom hating, inhuman monsters (ironic), sounds kinda similar to how many Americans viewed the victims of Iraq and Afghanistan. And indeed this sentiment is probably what made Clinton and Bush go easy on Russia's own "War on Terror".
As for Syria I think Putin was willing to take the risk to keep allies in Assad and Iran strong, because, in all honesty, the United States is his real enemy, IS and domestic terrorists give him a bad day at most, but the US is a permanent headache for him. |
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Islamic violent extremists have never been choosy about where they get their money, weapons, training and intel from: they would happily have taken the assistance of Russia against US targets, just like they took US assistance against Soviet targets.
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As a matter of fact, Al Qaeda never accepted any American assistance in their fight against the Soviets in Afghanistan: they were funded directly by Saudi and Kuwaiti money.
The CIA allowed the Pakistani intelligence service to disburse their money as they (the Pakistanis) saw fit. This led to them funding the most extremist of the groups, as they wanted a more Islamist Afghanistan which would then be an ally against India. The rise of the Taliban is, therefore, the fault of the Pakistanis, and the Saudis who funded the madrassas that spawned them, rather than the US. |
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Let's assume Zawahiri was a Russian asset in the late 1990s and used in Afghanistan - that in itself is no evidence, not even an indication, that he later acted in the know or pay of the Russians. Much like US services tending to extremists means they remote control them. As has been pointed out, these are all equal-opportunity murderers who have beef with all of the state player - RU, US, SA... The buck for 9/11 mostly stops in Saudi Arabia, which is aligner with the USA and in economic competition with Russia. Perhaps Russian intelligence factions were in contact with maverick factions within the House of Saud and facilitated "something", that'd be plausible, if there was any evidence. I don't see Russia as a main actor though.
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There's all sorts of **** on Youtube. You might want to summarise.
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Or not....
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I often imagine a scene like this play out:
The FSB has Al Zawahiri in a cell, they bring in another Arab -speaking "inmate" in the cell next door. This "inmate" starts a conversation with Al Zawahiri, they become close acquiantances. They order the other inmate out occasionally and take him to the interrogation room, but they are really taking him back to their secret compound to relay intelligence and instruct him what to do next; the focus is anti-Americanism and future ambitions, who is he trying to hook up with, etc. Every so often the inmate agent returns to his cell and the guards leave them alone to discuss Al Zawahiri's plans. Al Zawahiri goes to Afghanistan, having learned more about bin Laden and what he's about, how he can scheme with him to strike back at America, etc. For the next two years they devise a plan with Khalid Muhammad that leads to the September 11th attacks. Putin, engaged in a phony Chechen war based on a phony terrorist attack, reaches out to Bush after 9/11. "We're soo sorry to hear what has happened; NO MERCY FOR THE TERRORISTS...." |
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The problem was all of this is that KSM brought the planes plan to UBL, and that this caused a split within Al Qaeda between those who felt the repercussions would be catastrophic, and the UBL-led anti-Western action.
9/11 was all planned organically within Al Qaeda for the simple reason that UBL, KSM, and Al Zawahiri knew they could not trust outsiders. Alexander Litvinenko had converted to Islam, and just wanted to put Putin's face on an extremist attack, a classic, old-school KGB counter propaganda game. His pal bearers were the Chechen hierarchy. |
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It wasn't at all surprising that Putin immediately reached out after 9/11. For years Russia had got a terrible press in the West over its actions in trying to hold onto Chechnya and here was an opportunity to find common cause and say Russia's fight was also with global Islamist terrorism rather than an independence movement.
It's a relatively plausible conspiracy theory that the terrible apartment buildings bombings in 1999 were a casus belli faked by the FSB but the idea that the Chechen wars were somehow phoney and just a smokescreen for Russia's long game of creating agents provocateur to inspire Islamist attacks on the USA, well it doesn't really make a blip on my plausibility radar. Chechnya was a major crisis for Russia, both directly and for its negative effects on military morale and Russia's international standing. The idea that this was somehow all about the USA seems, well, a bit silly. |
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The 1999 apartment bombings are as close to a real conspiracy as you can get without proof, in my view.
The al Qaeda thing kind of tickles my innards so I just wanted to put it out there It's about time some plausible conspiracy theories are introduced in these forums since most of the crazies seem to have left. But the problem is it's tough to talk about them sometimes cause many people aren't familiar enough with terrorist attacks in Russia to comment. They aren't as cool. |
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True Russia just played opertunist, the people here even in the early years of
Debunking suspected that a lot of the anti American propoganda was misinformation, from Putin's Russia. Most people probably didn't even know or understand how Much Russia, Iran, and Venezuela supported and funded the propoganda Campaign, including furnishing online trolls and hackers. Mostly on my space and AoL forums. I would tell you what I know but now it is ancient history. The 9/11 Truth movement was one of the most effective organizations of Conspiracy propoganda. |
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Nice idea, but Al Zawahiri was well aware of the existence of Al Qaeda long before he was arrested by the Russians. He had been radicalised at an early age by Sayeed Qutb, and for a long time was a rival of OBL. It was only the destruction of Islamic Jihad by the Egyptian security forces that pushed him into the arms of Al Qaeda. Bin Laden had the funds and the glamour, and Zawahiri had to choose between being marginalised or joining his rival.
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I didn't think I needed to spell it out. The scenario is....they notice he is a person of high interest who is affiliated with anti-American terrorist organizations. Then they kicked him out "as an illegal immigrant". True, probably was illegal,...he came in with fake IDs, but there is a passive agenda there.
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Russians able to influence UBL's buddies? Russians with the BS skill, second rate fake news fooling idiots around the world - why would suicide UBL buddies work for Russians. Russians who rank the same as Americans for UBL's minions - Kafir
Is 9/11 truth a Russian propaganda failure Are 9/11 truth nuts, and CIT failed followers, Russian puppets with unlimited overwhelming ignorance |
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You bring up something interesting Sir.
You know RT has invited 9/11 Truthers on to the show before,...but some Kremlin spokespeople in the early 2000s have compared the Russian apartment bombings theories to 9/11 conspiracy theories in order to create the impression that they're equally wacky. You have Controlled Demo proponents and then you have on another day non-CD LIHOP proponents without any apparent contradiction. It's funny though how many conspiracy theorists seem to love Putin and Ahmadinejad. |
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They don't have to push a consistent message to sow seeds of doubt and confusion. In fact it probably helps if things seem incoherent as the best outcome they could hope for is that people just conclude they don't know what to believe and all sides are lying to them.
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The Russian connection with 9/11 does not exist. No American Intelligence agency has ever said so. This forum is spreading fake news about it and censoring the evidence and facts, and it applies to elections which so excites American politicians and journalists:
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Henri has previously argued that RT can't be fake news because Trump has never called it fake news.
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You posted false claims and failed to source them, and don't know it. You failed to provide evidence for spreading fake news like RT does by this forum. You failed to provide evidence and facts the forum suppresses evidence and facts. You have, with help, gone off topic and ended up in AAH, Do you need help finding AAH? You have made statements which are false, and come from fake news sources which you failed to source properly. Good luck what is the problem - BTW, "he claimed" is hearsay, not evidence, not fact |
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I agree that you can't oppose censorship in time of war but I can't quite see that several posts about Zimbabwe, or threads about child sex scandals, or information about the Grenfell Tower disaster should suddenly vanish because a forum is frightened of controversy.
There is now real controversy in America with these legal tangles in America with regard to supposed Russian collusion and RT which is sadly devoid of facts and evidence. That may frighten this forum as well. It doesn't help for posters on this forum to post unfounded rumors of Russian involvement in 9/11. I notice now that Germans who legitimately comment on the influx of Arabs into Germany are now being censored there. |
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Forget my OP then, which nobody actually seems to believe anyway. I am confident though that the Kremlin has carried out false flag attacks over the past two decades while the US kept trying to appease or befriend Russia though.
RT is the most insidious type of news, being HuffPost one moment, then Breitbart in the next, taking advantage of people's tendency to not look at the global context and taking bits and pieces in soundbites. Once they got you hooked, they press on to full propaganda mode. RT may not have explicitly said the German migrant rape case involving that 14 year old was covered up, but they gave Sergei Lavrov a platform to spread his ridiculous conspiracy theory. Then it's "I'm just reporting the news". |
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The OP is based on "he claimed", and is not evidence. Someone sees false flags, and will offer nothing but rumors, hearsay, and assorted nonsense. Someone else may present statements from other forums, it is more hearsay, rumor and assorted nonsense (like opinions). The OP offers nothing, and is like saying the Flight Training Businesses had a "role in 9/11". |
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As much as I dislike Putin and would not trust the Russian Government under him for a second, there is NO evidence that Russia was involved in 9/11.
For one reason, Russia really has nothing to gain to do that, and were taking enormous risks. |
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