Poisoned Spy Visited Israel with Oil Dossier
November 27th, 2006Now we’re getting somewhere. It’s like the mafia, but with nuclear missiles.
Via Times Online:
A dossier drawn up by Alexander Litvinenko on the Kremlin’s takeover of the world’s richest energy giant will be given to Scotland Yard today as police investigate the former KGB spy’s secret dealings with some of Russia’s richest men.
It emerged yesterday that Mr Litvinenko travelled to Israel just weeks before he died to hand over evidence to a Russian billionaire of how agents working for President Putin dealt with his enemies running the Yukos oil company.
He passed this information to Leonid Nevzlin, the former second-in-command of Yukos, who fled to Tel Aviv in fear for his life after the Kremlin seized and then sold off the $40 billion (£21 billion) company.
Mr Nevzlin told The Times that it was his “duty†to pass on the file. “Alexander had information on crimes committed with the Russian Government’s direct participation,†he said.
“He only recently gave me and my attorneys documents that shed light on the most significant aspects of the Yukos affair.â€
Investigators have told The Times that Mr Litvinenko had apparently uncovered “startling†new material about the Yukos affair and what happened to those opposing the forced break-up of the company.
Several figures linked with Yukos are reported to have disappeared or died in mysterious circumstances while its head, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and others have been jailed.
Originally it was Mr Litvinenko’s vocal opposition to President Putin’s rule that led to accusations of Russia’s secret service involvement in his death, but police are investigating whether he made enemies through his links with a number of oligarchs.
Detectives involved in what they admit is one of the most complicated inquiries Scotland Yard has faced say that they are working through Mr Litvinenko’s formidable list of friends and foes, which includes some of the world’s wealthiest men.
NATO eyes greater role in energy security
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-11-27T115927Z_01_L2791783_RTRUKOC_0_US-NATO-SUMMIT-ENERGY.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsHome-C1-topNews-9
What value can a group such as NATO bring to the concept of energy security? What is NATO’s core competency: war.
In short: NATO to be more explicit in ensuring Eastern Europe continues to supply Western Europe with petroleum.
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NATO leaders will study at a summit starting on Tuesday whether the alliance should take more action to avert potential threats to energy supplies, for example by mounting patrols of key shipping lanes.
The talks in the Latvian capital Riga, the first NATO summit on former Soviet soil, come amid Western concerns that Russia is exploiting its vast energy wealth to gain political influence over import-dependent countries in Europe.
“Energy security is a NATO-relevant subject,” NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer told Reuters in an interview ahead of the Riga summit.
“I hope heads of state and government will ask us in the North Atlantic Council to define the added value that NATO could bring in the discussion on energy security,” he said of the alliance’s main policy-forming council.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2006550102,00.html
as the UK declines, it is possible (I’m certainly hopeful) that england and the Celtic nations will go their seperate ways. i.e. Scotland, Wales, England, Cornwall, Manx, Ireland, and the Isle of Man, as seperate countries.
You’ll find me on an isle in the western scottish highlands, with plenty of sheep and ale.
Suleiman Kerimov Badly Injured in Car Wreck
http://www.kommersant.com/p725048/Suleiman_Kerimov/
Russian billionaire politician in critical condition after crashing Ferrari Enzo in France.
mob war?
Resource Wars in Darfur
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061127/ap_on_re_af/sudan_darfur_rebels
KHARTOUM, Sudan – Darfur rebels attacked an oil field in a rare extension of their campaign east toward the Sudanese capital and said Monday the military garrison guarding the field had surrendered. But the government said its forces repelled the assault and were in full control of the Abu Jabra oil field Monday.
“The government garrison guarding the oil field was totally destroyed,” the National Redemption Front rebel group said in a statement. “Numerous soldiers, including high-ranking officers and generals, have surrendered,” the rebels said, claiming to have shot down an army helicopter and to have captured a “substantial amount” of weapons and military vehicles.
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If we jump in here (even covertly) will we support a “side”, help promote chaos, or help promote stability? Depends on who gets that oil at the end.
West
The Brits did it. They made him a veritable walking dirty bomb. If anything the British citizens are even dumber than the Americans.
Continued Fallout? Seems like its going around. Mob War?
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/spy-death–mystery-illness-hits-expm/2006/11/29/1164476261855.html
ex-PM hit by mystery illness
Former Russian prime minister Dr Yegor Gaidar, suffered a mystery serious illness on a visit to Ireland.
“I have suffered sudden problems with my health on November 24 which posed a threat to my life,” the former premier told the newspaper in a telephone interview from a hospital in Moscow where he is undergoing tests.
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