Putin told of 'assassination bid'

[bigworld]

Source: BBC

The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has been warned of a plot to assassinate him during a visit to Iran this week, Kremlin officials have said.

The Interfax news agency cited sources in the Russian special services saying a gang of suicide bombers would attempt to kill Mr Putin in Tehran.

Mr Putin will fly to Tehran on Monday after meetings in Germany.

During his visit, Mr Putin is due to meet President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and attend a summit of Caspian Sea nations.

He is the first Russian president to travel to Iran since Joseph Stalin attended a summit of the Allied Powers in 1943.

"We cannot comment on this information but we confirm that the president has been informed," a Kremlin spokesman told the AFP news agency.

Interfax said that the Russian special services had relied on information received from several sources outside the country.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7044268.stm

[montanacowboy]

1. Blackwater, false flag asassination?

if this is true, you can bet Bushco is behind it

[hlthe2b]

2. My fist thought as well

[peacetalksforall]

3. Russia - long time big customer for their oil. Assassination?

Russia - possibly one of the only countries speaking out against the bombing of Iran. Assassination?

[aquart]

4. Which would make sense for an anti-government group.

Still don't believe it, though.

[bigworld]

5. Don't know if it's relevant

but here's an interesting old article claiming that some Chechen terrorists have been trained in Iran... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/11/27/wchech27.xml

[Strelnikov_]

12. This is highly relevant

I highly doubt that Iran (government) is helping to train 'Chechens to fight in Russia', as it makes absolutely no sense.

However, I have no doubt that as large a country Iran is, there are probably Chechen's there, and there are probably private groups that are assisting them.

Wonder how long before this threat gets morphed into 'Iran assisting Al Queda' by the liberal media.

[JustAnotherGen]

6. Another one chiming in with . . .

Is Blackwater in Iran and we don't know it? Or is it some CIA operative being paid under the table by Halliburton?

[peacetalksforall]

13. About two years ago, someone posted that a friend or relative was

on their way to Iran - stated as being on an intelligence work mission. I think the connection was military, but I'm not sure. This is when the Iran invasion was heating up.

[Myrina]

7. BushCo will do just about anything to drum up "Allies" ...

:puke:

[Joanne98]

11. Ain't that the truth. lol

[City Lights]

8. Does Cheney have a hunting trip planned? eom

[JustAnotherGen]

9. No Subject

"Does Cheney have a hunting trip planned?"

:toast: :rofl:

[Joanne98]

10. Ya mean the CIA has their own suicide bombers now?

[peacetalksforall]

14. It isn't all CIA now - it's DIA and Rice's Army - i.e., the State Dept's

Army, i.e., Blackwater (and don't forget Greystone).

[kitty1]

15. The ACPC (American Commitee for Peace in Chechnya) includes

prominent current and past members of the Bush Administration. During the Beslan hostage
crisis in 2002, they advocated a political solution to the situation rather than a military one. the CIA and M16 provided intel to the Chechens during this time as well. It's no secret that the U.S. government was on side with Checnya for geo-political reasons and is their ally.
This supposed assasination on Putin would be a brilliant way for the U.S, government to get
rid of the trouble making Putin and establishing a reason to deal with Iran who is also a strategic pain in the butt.

"This harshness towards Putin is perhaps explained by the fact that, in the US, the leading group which pleads the Chechen cause is the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya (ACPC). The list of the self-styled "distinguished Americans" who are its members is a rollcall of the most prominent neoconservatives who so enthusastically support the "war on terror".

They include Richard Perle, the notorious Pentagon adviser; Elliott Abrams of Iran-Contra fame; Kenneth Adelman, the former US ambassador to the UN who egged on the invasion of Iraq by predicting it would be "a cakewalk"; Midge Decter, biographer of Donald Rumsfeld and a director of the rightwing Heritage Foundation; and R James Woolsey, the former CIA director who is one of the leading cheerleaders behind George Bush's plans to re-model the Muslim world along pro-US lines.

The ACPC heavily promotes the idea that the Chechen rebellion shows the undemocratic nature of Putin's Russia, and cultivates support for the Chechen cause by emphasising the seriousness of
human rights violations in the tiny Caucasian republic. It compares the Chechen crisis to those other fashionable "Muslim" causes, Bosnia and Kosovo - implying that only international intervention in the Caucasus can stabilise the situation there. In August, the ACPC welcomed the award of political asylum in the US, and a US-government funded grant, to Ilyas Akhmadov, foreign minister in the opposition Chechen government, and a man Moscow describes as a terrorist. Coming from both political parties, the ACPC members represent the backbone of the US foreign policy establishment, and their views are indeed those of the US administration"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1299318,00.html

[Strelnikov_]

16. Beslan was in '04

And was probably the reason the Reich was able to get the vote close enough to steal the 04' election for their trained Chimp.


On edit:
"get rid of the trouble making Putin and establishing a reason to deal with Iran who is also a strategic pain in the butt."

Yes, that worries me, too.

[kitty1]

17. You're so right Loindelro, thanks for that heads up

[Purveyor]

18. {{{CHUCKLE}}} The neocons and tel aviv really don't not want to see the pending

Putin, Ahmadinejad photo ops, now do they?

[dansolo]

25. I was thinking something along these lines

The last thing that this Administration wants is for Putin to broker a deal with Iran. My thought was that we planted the story in order to scuttle the talks, but Putin's intelligence agencies correctly determined that the story was bogus. Putin still goes, gets positive press for not being scared off, and can effectively thumb his nose at the U.S.

[Purveyor]

19. Reuters: Kremlin Says No Change To Putin's Iran Schedule

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Sunday it was unaware of any changes in Russian President Vladimir Putin's plans to visit Tehran this week, following reports that a plot was being prepared there to assassinate him.

"We do not have any information about any changes," Kremlin deputy spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Reuters by telephone from Tehran. "The preparations are continuing for President Putin to take part in the Caspian summit (in Tehran)," he said.

Peskov said he was unable to confirm the existence of a plot but said Putin had been briefed on the reports. "The information is being dealt with by the secret services .... The president has been informed," said Peskov.

---EOE---

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSL1412702320071014?sp=true

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[Flabbergasted]

21. TOPOFF 4, a massive WMD drill in Asia, VS 08.

No I'm not anticipating a bombing tomorrow.

[abq e streeter]

22. Sad, but predictable responses here

The fascists running our government are not the only religious fanatic murderers in the world. All acts of evil in the world are not exclusively the work of Bushco/ Blackwater etc.

[The Question]

23. Good News

Good News!

[mikehiggins]

24. Well, we'll see now, won't we?

Vlad is an interesting man with an interesting, and somewhat scary past.

If the CIA or others move against him somebody is going to get a bloody nose and I don't think it'll be them damn Russkies.

Bush has the Secret Service to provide security for him, an arm of the Treasury.

Putin has the KGB (or whatever its called today--Commissariat of Homeland Security?) to provide security for him, an internationally based spy network with a historic tendency to off the people who get in their way (polonium, anyone?).

Bush has the right wing fundamentalists as his political base.

Putin has, well, the KGB.

Its hard to beleive the US would actually move against Putin, no matter how many cut-outs they used.

But then again, its hard to beleive we would invade a country that had done us no harm whatsoever in order to steal their oil.

Go figure