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In a August 24, 2006 article entitled, "Russian Footprints", Ion Mihai Pacepa writes:
http://www.tldm.org/News9/RussianInfluenceOnMideast.htm
By the end of the 1960s, the KGB was deeply involved in mass terrorism against Jews, carried out by various Palestinian client organizations. Here are some terrorist actions for which the KGB took credit while I was still in Romania: November 1969, armed attack on the El Al office in Athens, leaving 1 dead and 14 wounded; May 30, 1972, Ben Gurion Airport attack, leaving 22 dead and 76 wounded; December 1974, Tel Aviv movie theater bomb, leaving 2 dead and 66 wounded; March 1975, attack on a Tel Aviv hotel, leaving 25 dead and 6 wounded; May 1975, Jerusalem bomb, leaving 1 dead and 3 wounded; July 4, 1975, bomb in Zion Square, Jerusalem, leaving 15 dead and 62 wounded; April 1978, Brussels airport attack, leaving 12 wounded; May 1978, attack on an El Al plane in Paris, leaving 12 wounded. ... In 1972, the Kremlin decided to turn the whole Islamic world against Israel and the U.S. As KGB chairman Yury Andropov told me, a billion adversaries could inflict far greater damage on America than could a few millions. We needed to instill a Nazi-style hatred for the Jews throughout the Islamic world, and to turn this weapon of the emotions into a terrorist bloodbath against Israel and its main supporter, the United States. No one within the American/Zionist sphere of influence should any longer feel safe.
1970 - Yasser Arafat, the father of modern terrorism: In 1970 the Kremlin became interested in an obscure Arab construction engineer and collector of racecars, named Rahman al-Qudwa. Evidence shows, contrary to later claims, that this "construction engineer" was an Egyptian, born in Cairo during the summer of 1929. Rahman graduated from the University of Cairo and served as an officer in the Egyptian Army during the 1956 Suez campaign. Later he set up a business in Kuwait and made a fortune. He then entered politics, founding a hopelessly small terrorist organization.... According to the former head of Romanian intelligence, Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa, one of the highest ranking communist defectors of all time, Rahman al-Qudwa became an important political ally of the communist bloc following the death of Egypt's president, Gamal Abdul Nasser, in 1970. Gen. Pacepa's account of Rahman's intimate relations with the communist bloc is related in a book entitled "Red Horizons."... Rahman al-Qudwa is better known as Yasser Arafat, the chairman of the PLO since 1968 and the president of the Palestinian Authority -- which is now at war with Israel. According to Gen. Pacepa's account, communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu ordered his people to bring Arafat over to Romania. In late 1970 the chief of Romanian intelligence in Egypt, Gen. Constantine Munteanu, arrived in Bucharest with Arafat in tow. Munteanu had gathered an extensive file on Arafat, which characterized the PLO leader as "so much cleverness, blood, and filth all together in one man." Pacepa says that this was Munteanu's "standard definition of Arafat."
Given Gen. Munteanu's extensive file, Arafat could not exactly refuse the communist's "friendly" overtures. There is little question that Arafat is fanatically devoted to destroying Israel, and would sell his soul to the devil to gain his devilish ends. Therefore, a compact between Arafat and the Soviet Union via communist Romania was not something that violated any sacred Islamic rule in Arafat's heart. Arafat is no Moslem. His fanaticism is completely secular. But since he operates within the Islamic world, he must sometimes appear as a would-be Muslim liberator. (“Kremlin puppets and how they work,” J.R. Nyquist, October 19, 2000) http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=19872
1972 - According to Ion Mihai Pacepa, “In 1972, the Kremlin decided to turn the whole Islamic world against Israel and the U.S. As KGB chairman Yury Andropov … [said], a billion adversaries could inflict far greater damage on America than could a few millions. We needed to instill Nazi-style hatred for the Jews throughout the Islamic world, and to turn this weapon … against Israel and its main supporter, the United States.”
1973 - Soviet statements and preparations for an attack against Israel led the Pentagon to order U.S. nuclear forces to the highest state of peacetime readiness. The Joint Chiefs of Staff ordered the 82nd Airborne Division to prepare to head to the Middle East, and additional U.S. naval forces -- including American aircraft carriers -- moved into the Mediterranean, all out of a real and rising concern that the Soviets were about to make an unprecedented military move against Israel.
1982 - Israeli forces battling PLO terrorists in southern Lebanon unexpectedly uncovered a secret but massive cache of Soviet weaponry in deep underground cellars and tunnels. The storehouses contained some 4,000 tons of ammunition, 144 armored vehicles and tanks, 12,500 pieces of small arms, and 515 heavy weapons. Then-Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin said that the Russians had prepositioned enough weapons to "equip not five brigades, but five or six [Soviet] divisions," adding that "we shall need literally thousands of trucks to evacuate these weapons from Lebanon."
June, 1982 - Russia organizes international terrorist conference: In June of 1982, two hundred forty organizations of eighty countries met in Tripoli for the International Conference of the World Center Resistance to Imperialism, Zionism, Racism, Reaction, and Fascism. The meeting was organized by the Soviet Union and Colonel Qaddafi and resulted in the forming of a committee ultimately consisting of Libya, Cuba, Iran, Syria, and North Korea. Their goal was the establishment of international terrorist training programs to prepare their revolutionaries for the battle against the oppressors, primarily the United States. Professional military personnel were recruited, including experts in all types of modern combat and sabotage, many of them trained in the Soviet Union. the faculty at Manzareih included translators, commandos from North Korea, security experts from Syria, veteran Palestinian terrorists, advisers from Libya, KGB officers fluent in Farsi (the Iranian language), and radical experts from movements all over the world. By 1985 there we as many as eighteen functioning training facilities in Iran training thousands of terrorists. There were special camps for women and suicide fighters as well as the general three-to-six month training sessions for regular recruits. The Iranians even turned airports into academies.... With camps established all over the Middle East and Castro's Cuba clearly destined to be the training capital of the Western hemisphere, the international terrorist machine was in motion. (John Pynchon Holms, Terrorism: Today's Biggest Threat to Freedom, pp. 164-165)
1986 - Stockholm International Peace Research Institute report: Russia had clandestine strategic reserve of several thousand nuclear weapons, as large as Russia's declared force
1990 - Soviets played a critical role in the invasion of Kuwait: The Washington Times reported on August 14, 1990 that Colonel-General Albert Makashov (a Soviet General specializing in tank warfare) arrived in Bagdad two weeks before the Kuwait invasion on July 17, and remained in Iraq until August 13. “The Soviets played a critical role in operational planning, communications, and logistics for the invasion of Kuwait.” (Financial Times, August 8, 1990) The same article stated that the attack on Kuwait “bore all the earmarks of Soviet satellite intelligence.” Also, “The Soviets never have two satellites over the Persian Gulf except in times of war.” COSMOS 2037 was launched a few weeks before the invasion of Kuwait, and then on July 20th COSMOS 2086 was launched and moved into position to view Kuwait on July 28, 1990.
September 1991 - Initial report that Russia kept a secret SS-23 nuclear arsenal in violation of treaty: When the United States received the first reports http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=17512 about the existence of a secret SS-23 force in September 1991, "it sent an electric shock through the intelligence community," a former intelligence analyst told WND. "The realization that the Soviets had a secret nuclear missile force undermined all our premises about arms control."... The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute estimated in 1986 that the Soviet Union had a clandestine strategic "reserve" force of several thousand weapons, as large as Russia's current declared force, making a mockery of arms control commitments with the United States. (WorldNetDaily, June 5, 2000) http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=17516
1991 - Russia will remain the one country capable of destroying the U.S. in less than 30 minutes: Colin Powell warned, “Whatever the future state may look like, the land of the czars and commissars, after all is said and done, will still possess by far the strongest military force on the Eurasian land mass. The Soviet Union, now and in the future, will remain the one country capable of destroying the United States in less than 30 minutes.” (American Legion magazine, October 1991, p. 21)
1992 - Russian spy operations increasing around the world: “Russian spy operations against the U.S. have shown little decline following the collapse of the former U.S.S.R. Western intelligence agencies report that Russian spying is on the rise around the world.” (Washington Times, November 15, 1992)
1992 - It is now known that KGB agents infiltrated into the highest levels of government in Eastern bloc countries and former Soviet republics: “It is now known that the KGB infiltrated the independence movements and democracy parties that sprang up around the Soviet Union during the Gorbachev liberalization…. Since many of these parties have now come to power, it means that the KGB agents and informers are represented in the highest levels of government throughout every East bloc country and the former Soviet republics.” (Washington Post, February 11, 1992)
Autumn 1992 - Iran buys three nukes from Russia: Iran reportedly purchases three nuclear warheads from the "former" Soviet Union (Read more...)
http://www.financialsense.com/stormwatch/geo/pastanalysis/2006/0825.html
1994: “In Washington officials speculated that the [Aldrich] Ames case could prove to be the worst betrayal of intelligence agents in U.S. history. With Ames refusing to talk and his wife only hinting that she might cooperate, spymasters and legislators could only guess at the extent of the damage. Ames knew the true names of virtually all the Soviet agents, and later a dozen CIA operations may have been compromised as a direct result of the Ameses’ activities, resulting in the execution of as many as 10 Soviet agents.” (“Double Agent,” Time, March 7, 1994, p. 30)
1994: On March 10, 1994, Patrick Buchanan reported: “The Ames affair, however, should awaken Americans from their euphoria about the ‘new democratic Russia,’ our friend, ally, and partner in freedom and progress. Russia today is a schizophrenic Jekyll-and-Hyde creature, with reformers vying ever less successfully with the hard men of the old regime and rising nationalists and ultranationalists to decide the national destiny.” (“The End of the Affair,” The Wanderer, March 10, 1994)
1998 - Russia has highest abortion rate in the world: According to the Federal Research division of the Library of Congress, as of 1998 Russia has the highest abortion rate in the entire world. Statistic show there are two abortions for every live birth, amounting to 3.5 million abortions per year.
1999 - A world at "peace"? The National Defense Council Federation reported: "The century is coming to a close with a third of the world's 193 nations embroiled in conflict.... The foundation listed conflicts in 65 countries in 1999, up from 60 the year before.... Though the number of wars and regional conflicts was up from a year ago, it was below the record 71 the organization counted in 1995. By contrast, the average in the late 1980's, near the end of the Cold War, was about 35." (Nandotimes.com, December 30, 1999)
2000 - "Russian democracy is a myth": Alexandr Solzhenitsyn stated that "Russian democracy is a myth," and that Russia's demographic trends are "frightening." (NewsMax.com, March 21, 2000)
March 27, 2001 - Russia hiding tactical nuclear weapons in Baltic States: In mid-February, U.S. officials said they had confirmed the precise location of the nuclear missiles. Officials said the weapons are believed to be stored in a special nuclear storage bunker near a military airfield. "The Russians are denying it, but we know better," one intelligence official told the Washington Times, which first reported the transfer. (WorldNetDaily, March 27, 2001)
June 15, 2001 - Strengthening Russia's navy: Early this month, the Russian navy began sea trials of a new, third-generation Akula II-class nuclear-powered attack submarine, the Gepard, in the White Sea. The Gepard is to be delivered for service in the Northern Fleet in July. Moscow has also deployed a Delta III nuclear ballistic-missile submarine in the Pacific Ocean from the port of Petropavlovsk on the Kamchatka Peninsula – the first such deployment in months. Both vessels surprised Western intelligence. In global terms, Russia is signaling renewed will to emerge once again as an important naval power. Much of this stems directly from the decisions of the government of President Vladimir Putin. For years, successive Russian governments have left the navy to rot in port, with new ship construction running years behind schedule. Now, the government is directing scant resources into construction and finds shipbuilding boosted by orders from abroad. ... In some respects, the new attack sub is believed to be superior to the U.S. Navy's Los Angeles-class attack subs. Capable of moving as fast and as quietly, the Gepard can dive deeper than the American vessels and has more firepower than its counterparts, according to Russian media reports and independent naval experts. (WorldNetDaily, June 15, 2001)
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2001 - Russia, the world trash bin of child pornography: Associated Press reported on August 9, 2001, "Russia has turned into a world trash bin of child pornography." ("Activist Says Child Porn Prosecutions Will be Difficult in Indonesia, Russia," Christine Brummitt, Associated Press, Aug. 9, 2001)
January 11, 2002 - Russia closes last independent TV station: On January 12, 2002 the London Times reported: "Russia's last independent television station was closed yesterday, leaving the country's entire broadcast media under Kremlin control." (In Brussels on February 21, 2005, President Bush warned Russian President Putin, “We must always remind Russia, however, that our alliance stands for a free press, a vital opposition, the sharing of power and the rule of law," he said. (“Bush Raps Russia on Democracy, Rule of Law,” My Way News, Feb. 21, 2005)
February 26, 2002 - Russian arms network seen behind Al Qaeda: U.S. and European law enforcement officials say they have scored an important advance in their efforts to disrupt what some officials describe as the biggest weapons-trafficking network in the world, responsible for supplying the Taliban and terrorist groups from al Qaeda in Afghanistan to the Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines, as well as rebel forces in Africa. For the past three years, U.S. intelligence agencies have covertly been trying to thwart the sprawling arms empire of Victor Bout, a former Soviet military officer whose operation is based in the United Arab Emirates, according to U.S. and European officials. Bout's network is unique, U.S., British and U.N. investigators said, because of its ability to deliver sophisticated weapon systems virtually anywhere in the world. (Washington Post, February 26, 2002)
2002 - Bishop of Siberia says there is a "new wave of persecution" against the Catholic Church in Russia: A September 15, 2002 article by Zenit reported that Bishop Werth of Novosibirsk, in Western Siberia, says that "Russia has compiled a blacklist of Catholic priests it intends to expel in the near future." The article goes on to recount Bishop Werth’s comments that there is a "‘new wave of persecution’ against the Catholic Church in the [Russian] federation…."
Zenit notes that "To date, Bishop Jerzy Mazur of St. Joseph in Irkutsk, eastern Siberia, as well as four priests of Italian, Polish and Slovak nationality, have been expelled."
The article also states: "Bishop Werth said that Russia needs a ‘spiritual rebirth, because people want to experience a real inner conviction.’ Only 1% of Russian Orthodox go to church."]
2003 - Pope John Paul II says persecution of Catholic Church in Russia is a cause of grave suffering for him: On January 13, 2003, Pope John Paul II expressed concern for the persecution of the Catholic Church in Russia is a cause of grave suffering for him: "As far as the Catholic Church is concerned, I will mention but one situation which is a cause of great suffering for me: the plight of Catholic communities in the Russian Federation, which for months now have seen some of their Pastors prevented from returning to them for administrative reasons. The Holy See expects from the Government authorities concrete decisions which will put an end to this crisis, and which are in keeping with the international agreements subscribed to by the modern and democratic Russia. Russian Catholics wish to live as their brethren do in the rest of the world, enjoying the same freedom and the same dignity."
2003: Recent declassified reports indicate that Russian intelligence gave Iraq's military leaders U.S. war plans for the 2003 invasion of Iraq (read more...) http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/kouri/060828
March 28, 2003: From Russia with blood, Russian missiles kill four Americans: In a surprise attack south of Najaf, Iraqis used a Russian-made anti-tank missile to destroy a US tank, killing its four crew. (Read more...)
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/03/27/1048653807477.html
December 22, 2003 - Russia deploys "unrivaled" nuclear missiles: Russia has deployed another batch of state-of-the-art intercontinental nuclear missiles after a two-year break in the program caused by a funding shortage.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov inaugurated the new set of Topol-M missiles at the Tatishchevo missile base in the central Saratov region Sunday, describing them as a "21st-Century weapon" unrivaled in the world.
"This is the most advanced state-of-the-art missile in the world," Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said in remarks broadcast by Russian television stations Monday. "Only such weapons can ensure and guarantee our sovereignty and security and make any attempts to put military pressure on Russia absolutely senseless." (Washington Times, December 22, 2003)
October 28, 2004 - Russia tied to missing WMDs in Iraq: Russian special forces troops moved many of Saddam Hussein's weapons and related goods out of Iraq and into Syria in the weeks before the March 2003 U.S. military operation, The Washington Times has learned.
John A. Shaw, the deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security, said in an interview that he believes the Russian troops, working with Iraqi intelligence, "almost certainly" removed the high-explosive material that went missing from the Al-Qaqaa facility, south of Baghdad.
"The Russians brought in, just before the war got started, a whole series of military units," Mr. Shaw said. "Their main job was to shred all evidence of any of the contractual arrangements they had with the Iraqis. The others were transportation units." (Washington Times, October 28, 2004)
November 15, 2004 - Russia’s spying against the United States has returned to Cold War levels: “We're shocked--shocked--with word from intelligence insiders that Russian President Vladimir Putin, himself once a top KGB spook, has boosted Moscow's spying on U.S. interests to Cold War levels. ‘You dance with the ones who brought you,’ said a U.S. intel tipster. While Washington has turned its spying eyes to the Middle East, those who chart world espionage say that Moscow has recently field a new wave of agents against American targets. We're told that the level has reached the high-water mark of the Cold War. But unlike the good old days, the new targets are economic, not military.” ("Washington Whispers: The Reds are dead, but the spies are still around," U.S. News & World Report, November 15, 2004, p. 12)
January 28, 2005 - Russia and Syria sign major weapons deal: Russia and Syria this week signed a major weapons agreement in addition to the energy and trade deal the two countries reportedly reached Wednesday, prompting American and Israeli officials to privately voice concern over Russia's assistance to countries accused of aiding the insurgency in Iraq. Russian president Vladimir Putin and Syrian president Bashar Assad signed a military cooperation agreement that enables Russia to upgrade Syria's military and sell Damascus advanced arms. (WorldNetDaily, January 28, 2005)
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/03/27/1048653807477.html
February 1, 2005 - Hezbollah terrorists obtained advanced missiles from new Russian weapons deal to Syria: Israeli officials say Hezbollah has obtained an advanced surface-to-air missile, forcing Israeli aircraft to fly at higher altitudes and underscoring fears missiles Russia is selling to Syria may be handed over to terrorists. A report in Israel's Maariv daily Hebrew edition quoted Israeli officials saying Hezbollah has acquired SAM-18 anti-aircraft missiles from a former Soviet republic other than Russia, prompting Israeli air force jets to fly higher while nearing the Israeli-Lebanese border. (WorldNetDaily, February 1, 2005)
February 28, 2005 - Russia has been added to the list of nations with significant human rights violations: “The United States highlighted human rights problems in Saudi Arabia and Russia on Monday in a key report that showed its new willingness to press partners to curb abuses.” The U.S. report expressed 'concerns about the erosion of government accountability’ due to [Russia’s] media restrictions, a compliant legislature and political pressure on the judiciary.” (“U.S. highlights rights issues in Saudi Arabia, Russia,” My Way News, February 28, 2005)
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42636
December 2, 2005 - Russia equips Iran for war: Russia has signed a deal with Iran to sell 29 of its Tor M-1 anti-missile systems, a development that will complicate any planned pre-emptive attack on the rogue nation's nuclear facilities, reports Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin. The system would theoretically permit Iran to intercept some cruise missiles as well as airborne missiles that U.S., Israeli or other western countries might use in an effort to keep the terrorist-supporting nation from developing nuclear weapons or using them. (WorldNetDaily, December 2, 2005)
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47696
December 27, 2005: Putin’s economic adviser resigns, saying Russia ‘not free’ (Read more...)
http://www.tldm.org/News8/UnconvertedRussia3.htm
August 6, 2006 - Hezbollah terrorists used Russian-made missiles against Israel: The majority of Israel Defense Forces ground troops casualties, both infantry and armored, were the result of special anti-tank units of Hezbollah, according to intelligence sources. The same sources note that these units have not retreated from southern Lebanon following the deployment of large IDF ground forces in the area. The Hezbollah anti-tank teams use a new and particularly potent version of the Russian-made RPG, the RPG-29, that has been sold by Moscow to the Syrians and then transferred to the Shi'ite organization. (Haaretz, August 6, 2006)
August 22, 2006 - Russia's fasting increase in nuclear spending since Cuban missile crisis: Last year [2005] Russia formed close to 25 new missile units--in what's considered the fastest increase of nuclear spending since the days of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. (Read more...) http://www.tldm.org/News9/RussiaNotAFriend.htm
August 23, 2006 - Russia overtakes Saudi Arabia as world's leading oil producer: Statistics recently published by the oil cartel OPEC show that Russia is currently extracting more oil than Saudi Arabia, making it the biggest producer of “black gold” in the world, the British Financial Times reported on Wednesday, Aug. 23.
October 2006 - Alexander Litvinenko assassinated, had revealed that the #2 man of Al Qaeda (Ayman al-Zawahiri) is a KGB-trained agent: "The number two person in the terrorist organization al Qaeda, who they are crediting with the series of explosions in London, Ayman al-Zawahiri, is an old agent of the FSB. Being sentenced to death in Egypt for terrorism and hunted by Interpol, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in 1998, was in the territory of Dagestan, where for half a year he received special training at one of the educational bases of the FSB. After this training he was transferred to Afghanistan, where he had never been before and where, following the recommendation of his Lubyanka chiefs, he at once ... penetrated the milieu of bin Laden and soon became his assistant in al Qaeda." (Read more... Read also...) http://www.jrnyquist.com/nyquist_2005_0813.htm
March 29, 2007: Russian spying on U.S. returns to Cold War levels: Russian efforts to obtain secrets on U.S. political and military decision-making have reached levels not seen since the Cold War (Read more...) http://www.tldm.org/News10/RussiaSpyingReturns.htm
April 11, 2007: Russia has gone back, critics say, to the classic authoritarian model of the state that flourished under the tsarists and the communists (Read more...)
http://www.tldm.org/News10/RussiaReturnsToAuthoritarianModel.htm
April 15, 2007 - Russia launches new generation of nuclear submarines: Russia launched its first new generation nuclear submarine since the fall of the Soviet Union on Sunday, as the Kremlin seeks to upgrade its undersea nuclear strike force.... "Russia wants to show that she remains a nuclear power and -- as the Putin administration says -- still a great power and for them the greatness of that power is measured by its weapons," Alexander Nikitin, a former Russian navy engineer now working as an environmental campaigner, told Reuters from Oslo
http://www.tldm.org/News9/RussianInfluenceOnMideast.htm
http://www.tldm.org/News9/RussianInfluenceOnMideast.htm
By the end of the 1960s, the KGB was deeply involved in mass terrorism against Jews, carried out by various Palestinian client organizations. Here are some terrorist actions for which the KGB took credit while I was still in Romania: November 1969, armed attack on the El Al office in Athens, leaving 1 dead and 14 wounded; May 30, 1972, Ben Gurion Airport attack, leaving 22 dead and 76 wounded; December 1974, Tel Aviv movie theater bomb, leaving 2 dead and 66 wounded; March 1975, attack on a Tel Aviv hotel, leaving 25 dead and 6 wounded; May 1975, Jerusalem bomb, leaving 1 dead and 3 wounded; July 4, 1975, bomb in Zion Square, Jerusalem, leaving 15 dead and 62 wounded; April 1978, Brussels airport attack, leaving 12 wounded; May 1978, attack on an El Al plane in Paris, leaving 12 wounded. ... In 1972, the Kremlin decided to turn the whole Islamic world against Israel and the U.S. As KGB chairman Yury Andropov told me, a billion adversaries could inflict far greater damage on America than could a few millions. We needed to instill a Nazi-style hatred for the Jews throughout the Islamic world, and to turn this weapon of the emotions into a terrorist bloodbath against Israel and its main supporter, the United States. No one within the American/Zionist sphere of influence should any longer feel safe.
1970 - Yasser Arafat, the father of modern terrorism: In 1970 the Kremlin became interested in an obscure Arab construction engineer and collector of racecars, named Rahman al-Qudwa. Evidence shows, contrary to later claims, that this "construction engineer" was an Egyptian, born in Cairo during the summer of 1929. Rahman graduated from the University of Cairo and served as an officer in the Egyptian Army during the 1956 Suez campaign. Later he set up a business in Kuwait and made a fortune. He then entered politics, founding a hopelessly small terrorist organization.... According to the former head of Romanian intelligence, Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa, one of the highest ranking communist defectors of all time, Rahman al-Qudwa became an important political ally of the communist bloc following the death of Egypt's president, Gamal Abdul Nasser, in 1970. Gen. Pacepa's account of Rahman's intimate relations with the communist bloc is related in a book entitled "Red Horizons."... Rahman al-Qudwa is better known as Yasser Arafat, the chairman of the PLO since 1968 and the president of the Palestinian Authority -- which is now at war with Israel. According to Gen. Pacepa's account, communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu ordered his people to bring Arafat over to Romania. In late 1970 the chief of Romanian intelligence in Egypt, Gen. Constantine Munteanu, arrived in Bucharest with Arafat in tow. Munteanu had gathered an extensive file on Arafat, which characterized the PLO leader as "so much cleverness, blood, and filth all together in one man." Pacepa says that this was Munteanu's "standard definition of Arafat."
Given Gen. Munteanu's extensive file, Arafat could not exactly refuse the communist's "friendly" overtures. There is little question that Arafat is fanatically devoted to destroying Israel, and would sell his soul to the devil to gain his devilish ends. Therefore, a compact between Arafat and the Soviet Union via communist Romania was not something that violated any sacred Islamic rule in Arafat's heart. Arafat is no Moslem. His fanaticism is completely secular. But since he operates within the Islamic world, he must sometimes appear as a would-be Muslim liberator. (“Kremlin puppets and how they work,” J.R. Nyquist, October 19, 2000) http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=19872
1972 - According to Ion Mihai Pacepa, “In 1972, the Kremlin decided to turn the whole Islamic world against Israel and the U.S. As KGB chairman Yury Andropov … [said], a billion adversaries could inflict far greater damage on America than could a few millions. We needed to instill Nazi-style hatred for the Jews throughout the Islamic world, and to turn this weapon … against Israel and its main supporter, the United States.”
1973 - Soviet statements and preparations for an attack against Israel led the Pentagon to order U.S. nuclear forces to the highest state of peacetime readiness. The Joint Chiefs of Staff ordered the 82nd Airborne Division to prepare to head to the Middle East, and additional U.S. naval forces -- including American aircraft carriers -- moved into the Mediterranean, all out of a real and rising concern that the Soviets were about to make an unprecedented military move against Israel.
1982 - Israeli forces battling PLO terrorists in southern Lebanon unexpectedly uncovered a secret but massive cache of Soviet weaponry in deep underground cellars and tunnels. The storehouses contained some 4,000 tons of ammunition, 144 armored vehicles and tanks, 12,500 pieces of small arms, and 515 heavy weapons. Then-Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin said that the Russians had prepositioned enough weapons to "equip not five brigades, but five or six [Soviet] divisions," adding that "we shall need literally thousands of trucks to evacuate these weapons from Lebanon."
June, 1982 - Russia organizes international terrorist conference: In June of 1982, two hundred forty organizations of eighty countries met in Tripoli for the International Conference of the World Center Resistance to Imperialism, Zionism, Racism, Reaction, and Fascism. The meeting was organized by the Soviet Union and Colonel Qaddafi and resulted in the forming of a committee ultimately consisting of Libya, Cuba, Iran, Syria, and North Korea. Their goal was the establishment of international terrorist training programs to prepare their revolutionaries for the battle against the oppressors, primarily the United States. Professional military personnel were recruited, including experts in all types of modern combat and sabotage, many of them trained in the Soviet Union. the faculty at Manzareih included translators, commandos from North Korea, security experts from Syria, veteran Palestinian terrorists, advisers from Libya, KGB officers fluent in Farsi (the Iranian language), and radical experts from movements all over the world. By 1985 there we as many as eighteen functioning training facilities in Iran training thousands of terrorists. There were special camps for women and suicide fighters as well as the general three-to-six month training sessions for regular recruits. The Iranians even turned airports into academies.... With camps established all over the Middle East and Castro's Cuba clearly destined to be the training capital of the Western hemisphere, the international terrorist machine was in motion. (John Pynchon Holms, Terrorism: Today's Biggest Threat to Freedom, pp. 164-165)
1986 - Stockholm International Peace Research Institute report: Russia had clandestine strategic reserve of several thousand nuclear weapons, as large as Russia's declared force
1990 - Soviets played a critical role in the invasion of Kuwait: The Washington Times reported on August 14, 1990 that Colonel-General Albert Makashov (a Soviet General specializing in tank warfare) arrived in Bagdad two weeks before the Kuwait invasion on July 17, and remained in Iraq until August 13. “The Soviets played a critical role in operational planning, communications, and logistics for the invasion of Kuwait.” (Financial Times, August 8, 1990) The same article stated that the attack on Kuwait “bore all the earmarks of Soviet satellite intelligence.” Also, “The Soviets never have two satellites over the Persian Gulf except in times of war.” COSMOS 2037 was launched a few weeks before the invasion of Kuwait, and then on July 20th COSMOS 2086 was launched and moved into position to view Kuwait on July 28, 1990.
September 1991 - Initial report that Russia kept a secret SS-23 nuclear arsenal in violation of treaty: When the United States received the first reports http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=17512 about the existence of a secret SS-23 force in September 1991, "it sent an electric shock through the intelligence community," a former intelligence analyst told WND. "The realization that the Soviets had a secret nuclear missile force undermined all our premises about arms control."... The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute estimated in 1986 that the Soviet Union had a clandestine strategic "reserve" force of several thousand weapons, as large as Russia's current declared force, making a mockery of arms control commitments with the United States. (WorldNetDaily, June 5, 2000) http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=17516
1991 - Russia will remain the one country capable of destroying the U.S. in less than 30 minutes: Colin Powell warned, “Whatever the future state may look like, the land of the czars and commissars, after all is said and done, will still possess by far the strongest military force on the Eurasian land mass. The Soviet Union, now and in the future, will remain the one country capable of destroying the United States in less than 30 minutes.” (American Legion magazine, October 1991, p. 21)
1992 - Russian spy operations increasing around the world: “Russian spy operations against the U.S. have shown little decline following the collapse of the former U.S.S.R. Western intelligence agencies report that Russian spying is on the rise around the world.” (Washington Times, November 15, 1992)
1992 - It is now known that KGB agents infiltrated into the highest levels of government in Eastern bloc countries and former Soviet republics: “It is now known that the KGB infiltrated the independence movements and democracy parties that sprang up around the Soviet Union during the Gorbachev liberalization…. Since many of these parties have now come to power, it means that the KGB agents and informers are represented in the highest levels of government throughout every East bloc country and the former Soviet republics.” (Washington Post, February 11, 1992)
Autumn 1992 - Iran buys three nukes from Russia: Iran reportedly purchases three nuclear warheads from the "former" Soviet Union (Read more...)
http://www.financialsense.com/stormwatch/geo/pastanalysis/2006/0825.html
1994: “In Washington officials speculated that the [Aldrich] Ames case could prove to be the worst betrayal of intelligence agents in U.S. history. With Ames refusing to talk and his wife only hinting that she might cooperate, spymasters and legislators could only guess at the extent of the damage. Ames knew the true names of virtually all the Soviet agents, and later a dozen CIA operations may have been compromised as a direct result of the Ameses’ activities, resulting in the execution of as many as 10 Soviet agents.” (“Double Agent,” Time, March 7, 1994, p. 30)
1994: On March 10, 1994, Patrick Buchanan reported: “The Ames affair, however, should awaken Americans from their euphoria about the ‘new democratic Russia,’ our friend, ally, and partner in freedom and progress. Russia today is a schizophrenic Jekyll-and-Hyde creature, with reformers vying ever less successfully with the hard men of the old regime and rising nationalists and ultranationalists to decide the national destiny.” (“The End of the Affair,” The Wanderer, March 10, 1994)
1998 - Russia has highest abortion rate in the world: According to the Federal Research division of the Library of Congress, as of 1998 Russia has the highest abortion rate in the entire world. Statistic show there are two abortions for every live birth, amounting to 3.5 million abortions per year.
1999 - A world at "peace"? The National Defense Council Federation reported: "The century is coming to a close with a third of the world's 193 nations embroiled in conflict.... The foundation listed conflicts in 65 countries in 1999, up from 60 the year before.... Though the number of wars and regional conflicts was up from a year ago, it was below the record 71 the organization counted in 1995. By contrast, the average in the late 1980's, near the end of the Cold War, was about 35." (Nandotimes.com, December 30, 1999)
2000 - "Russian democracy is a myth": Alexandr Solzhenitsyn stated that "Russian democracy is a myth," and that Russia's demographic trends are "frightening." (NewsMax.com, March 21, 2000)
March 27, 2001 - Russia hiding tactical nuclear weapons in Baltic States: In mid-February, U.S. officials said they had confirmed the precise location of the nuclear missiles. Officials said the weapons are believed to be stored in a special nuclear storage bunker near a military airfield. "The Russians are denying it, but we know better," one intelligence official told the Washington Times, which first reported the transfer. (WorldNetDaily, March 27, 2001)
June 15, 2001 - Strengthening Russia's navy: Early this month, the Russian navy began sea trials of a new, third-generation Akula II-class nuclear-powered attack submarine, the Gepard, in the White Sea. The Gepard is to be delivered for service in the Northern Fleet in July. Moscow has also deployed a Delta III nuclear ballistic-missile submarine in the Pacific Ocean from the port of Petropavlovsk on the Kamchatka Peninsula – the first such deployment in months. Both vessels surprised Western intelligence. In global terms, Russia is signaling renewed will to emerge once again as an important naval power. Much of this stems directly from the decisions of the government of President Vladimir Putin. For years, successive Russian governments have left the navy to rot in port, with new ship construction running years behind schedule. Now, the government is directing scant resources into construction and finds shipbuilding boosted by orders from abroad. ... In some respects, the new attack sub is believed to be superior to the U.S. Navy's Los Angeles-class attack subs. Capable of moving as fast and as quietly, the Gepard can dive deeper than the American vessels and has more firepower than its counterparts, according to Russian media reports and independent naval experts. (WorldNetDaily, June 15, 2001)
http://www.usdefense.com/
2001 - Russia, the world trash bin of child pornography: Associated Press reported on August 9, 2001, "Russia has turned into a world trash bin of child pornography." ("Activist Says Child Porn Prosecutions Will be Difficult in Indonesia, Russia," Christine Brummitt, Associated Press, Aug. 9, 2001)
January 11, 2002 - Russia closes last independent TV station: On January 12, 2002 the London Times reported: "Russia's last independent television station was closed yesterday, leaving the country's entire broadcast media under Kremlin control." (In Brussels on February 21, 2005, President Bush warned Russian President Putin, “We must always remind Russia, however, that our alliance stands for a free press, a vital opposition, the sharing of power and the rule of law," he said. (“Bush Raps Russia on Democracy, Rule of Law,” My Way News, Feb. 21, 2005)
February 26, 2002 - Russian arms network seen behind Al Qaeda: U.S. and European law enforcement officials say they have scored an important advance in their efforts to disrupt what some officials describe as the biggest weapons-trafficking network in the world, responsible for supplying the Taliban and terrorist groups from al Qaeda in Afghanistan to the Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines, as well as rebel forces in Africa. For the past three years, U.S. intelligence agencies have covertly been trying to thwart the sprawling arms empire of Victor Bout, a former Soviet military officer whose operation is based in the United Arab Emirates, according to U.S. and European officials. Bout's network is unique, U.S., British and U.N. investigators said, because of its ability to deliver sophisticated weapon systems virtually anywhere in the world. (Washington Post, February 26, 2002)
2002 - Bishop of Siberia says there is a "new wave of persecution" against the Catholic Church in Russia: A September 15, 2002 article by Zenit reported that Bishop Werth of Novosibirsk, in Western Siberia, says that "Russia has compiled a blacklist of Catholic priests it intends to expel in the near future." The article goes on to recount Bishop Werth’s comments that there is a "‘new wave of persecution’ against the Catholic Church in the [Russian] federation…."
Zenit notes that "To date, Bishop Jerzy Mazur of St. Joseph in Irkutsk, eastern Siberia, as well as four priests of Italian, Polish and Slovak nationality, have been expelled."
The article also states: "Bishop Werth said that Russia needs a ‘spiritual rebirth, because people want to experience a real inner conviction.’ Only 1% of Russian Orthodox go to church."]
2003 - Pope John Paul II says persecution of Catholic Church in Russia is a cause of grave suffering for him: On January 13, 2003, Pope John Paul II expressed concern for the persecution of the Catholic Church in Russia is a cause of grave suffering for him: "As far as the Catholic Church is concerned, I will mention but one situation which is a cause of great suffering for me: the plight of Catholic communities in the Russian Federation, which for months now have seen some of their Pastors prevented from returning to them for administrative reasons. The Holy See expects from the Government authorities concrete decisions which will put an end to this crisis, and which are in keeping with the international agreements subscribed to by the modern and democratic Russia. Russian Catholics wish to live as their brethren do in the rest of the world, enjoying the same freedom and the same dignity."
2003: Recent declassified reports indicate that Russian intelligence gave Iraq's military leaders U.S. war plans for the 2003 invasion of Iraq (read more...) http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/kouri/060828
March 28, 2003: From Russia with blood, Russian missiles kill four Americans: In a surprise attack south of Najaf, Iraqis used a Russian-made anti-tank missile to destroy a US tank, killing its four crew. (Read more...)
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/03/27/1048653807477.html
December 22, 2003 - Russia deploys "unrivaled" nuclear missiles: Russia has deployed another batch of state-of-the-art intercontinental nuclear missiles after a two-year break in the program caused by a funding shortage.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov inaugurated the new set of Topol-M missiles at the Tatishchevo missile base in the central Saratov region Sunday, describing them as a "21st-Century weapon" unrivaled in the world.
"This is the most advanced state-of-the-art missile in the world," Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said in remarks broadcast by Russian television stations Monday. "Only such weapons can ensure and guarantee our sovereignty and security and make any attempts to put military pressure on Russia absolutely senseless." (Washington Times, December 22, 2003)
October 28, 2004 - Russia tied to missing WMDs in Iraq: Russian special forces troops moved many of Saddam Hussein's weapons and related goods out of Iraq and into Syria in the weeks before the March 2003 U.S. military operation, The Washington Times has learned.
John A. Shaw, the deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security, said in an interview that he believes the Russian troops, working with Iraqi intelligence, "almost certainly" removed the high-explosive material that went missing from the Al-Qaqaa facility, south of Baghdad.
"The Russians brought in, just before the war got started, a whole series of military units," Mr. Shaw said. "Their main job was to shred all evidence of any of the contractual arrangements they had with the Iraqis. The others were transportation units." (Washington Times, October 28, 2004)
November 15, 2004 - Russia’s spying against the United States has returned to Cold War levels: “We're shocked--shocked--with word from intelligence insiders that Russian President Vladimir Putin, himself once a top KGB spook, has boosted Moscow's spying on U.S. interests to Cold War levels. ‘You dance with the ones who brought you,’ said a U.S. intel tipster. While Washington has turned its spying eyes to the Middle East, those who chart world espionage say that Moscow has recently field a new wave of agents against American targets. We're told that the level has reached the high-water mark of the Cold War. But unlike the good old days, the new targets are economic, not military.” ("Washington Whispers: The Reds are dead, but the spies are still around," U.S. News & World Report, November 15, 2004, p. 12)
January 28, 2005 - Russia and Syria sign major weapons deal: Russia and Syria this week signed a major weapons agreement in addition to the energy and trade deal the two countries reportedly reached Wednesday, prompting American and Israeli officials to privately voice concern over Russia's assistance to countries accused of aiding the insurgency in Iraq. Russian president Vladimir Putin and Syrian president Bashar Assad signed a military cooperation agreement that enables Russia to upgrade Syria's military and sell Damascus advanced arms. (WorldNetDaily, January 28, 2005)
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/03/27/1048653807477.html
February 1, 2005 - Hezbollah terrorists obtained advanced missiles from new Russian weapons deal to Syria: Israeli officials say Hezbollah has obtained an advanced surface-to-air missile, forcing Israeli aircraft to fly at higher altitudes and underscoring fears missiles Russia is selling to Syria may be handed over to terrorists. A report in Israel's Maariv daily Hebrew edition quoted Israeli officials saying Hezbollah has acquired SAM-18 anti-aircraft missiles from a former Soviet republic other than Russia, prompting Israeli air force jets to fly higher while nearing the Israeli-Lebanese border. (WorldNetDaily, February 1, 2005)
February 28, 2005 - Russia has been added to the list of nations with significant human rights violations: “The United States highlighted human rights problems in Saudi Arabia and Russia on Monday in a key report that showed its new willingness to press partners to curb abuses.” The U.S. report expressed 'concerns about the erosion of government accountability’ due to [Russia’s] media restrictions, a compliant legislature and political pressure on the judiciary.” (“U.S. highlights rights issues in Saudi Arabia, Russia,” My Way News, February 28, 2005)
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42636
December 2, 2005 - Russia equips Iran for war: Russia has signed a deal with Iran to sell 29 of its Tor M-1 anti-missile systems, a development that will complicate any planned pre-emptive attack on the rogue nation's nuclear facilities, reports Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin. The system would theoretically permit Iran to intercept some cruise missiles as well as airborne missiles that U.S., Israeli or other western countries might use in an effort to keep the terrorist-supporting nation from developing nuclear weapons or using them. (WorldNetDaily, December 2, 2005)
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47696
December 27, 2005: Putin’s economic adviser resigns, saying Russia ‘not free’ (Read more...)
http://www.tldm.org/News8/UnconvertedRussia3.htm
August 6, 2006 - Hezbollah terrorists used Russian-made missiles against Israel: The majority of Israel Defense Forces ground troops casualties, both infantry and armored, were the result of special anti-tank units of Hezbollah, according to intelligence sources. The same sources note that these units have not retreated from southern Lebanon following the deployment of large IDF ground forces in the area. The Hezbollah anti-tank teams use a new and particularly potent version of the Russian-made RPG, the RPG-29, that has been sold by Moscow to the Syrians and then transferred to the Shi'ite organization. (Haaretz, August 6, 2006)
August 22, 2006 - Russia's fasting increase in nuclear spending since Cuban missile crisis: Last year [2005] Russia formed close to 25 new missile units--in what's considered the fastest increase of nuclear spending since the days of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. (Read more...) http://www.tldm.org/News9/RussiaNotAFriend.htm
August 23, 2006 - Russia overtakes Saudi Arabia as world's leading oil producer: Statistics recently published by the oil cartel OPEC show that Russia is currently extracting more oil than Saudi Arabia, making it the biggest producer of “black gold” in the world, the British Financial Times reported on Wednesday, Aug. 23.
October 2006 - Alexander Litvinenko assassinated, had revealed that the #2 man of Al Qaeda (Ayman al-Zawahiri) is a KGB-trained agent: "The number two person in the terrorist organization al Qaeda, who they are crediting with the series of explosions in London, Ayman al-Zawahiri, is an old agent of the FSB. Being sentenced to death in Egypt for terrorism and hunted by Interpol, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in 1998, was in the territory of Dagestan, where for half a year he received special training at one of the educational bases of the FSB. After this training he was transferred to Afghanistan, where he had never been before and where, following the recommendation of his Lubyanka chiefs, he at once ... penetrated the milieu of bin Laden and soon became his assistant in al Qaeda." (Read more... Read also...) http://www.jrnyquist.com/nyquist_2005_0813.htm
March 29, 2007: Russian spying on U.S. returns to Cold War levels: Russian efforts to obtain secrets on U.S. political and military decision-making have reached levels not seen since the Cold War (Read more...) http://www.tldm.org/News10/RussiaSpyingReturns.htm
April 11, 2007: Russia has gone back, critics say, to the classic authoritarian model of the state that flourished under the tsarists and the communists (Read more...)
http://www.tldm.org/News10/RussiaReturnsToAuthoritarianModel.htm
April 15, 2007 - Russia launches new generation of nuclear submarines: Russia launched its first new generation nuclear submarine since the fall of the Soviet Union on Sunday, as the Kremlin seeks to upgrade its undersea nuclear strike force.... "Russia wants to show that she remains a nuclear power and -- as the Putin administration says -- still a great power and for them the greatness of that power is measured by its weapons," Alexander Nikitin, a former Russian navy engineer now working as an environmental campaigner, told Reuters from Oslo
http://www.tldm.org/News9/RussianInfluenceOnMideast.htm
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