Crimson > Britain and Russia were on the verge of negotiating a new extradition treaty that would have made it much easier for the Kremlin to extradite Berezovsky to Russia, where he is wanted on charges of murder, embezzlement, and extortion? Berezovksy, who employed Litvinenko while he was alive and is using him in death as the symbol of Putin's malignity, is the key figure in all this: the man slain Forbes journalist Paul Klebnikov called Russia's "godfather." The real Mafia could learn a thing or two from Berezovsky, who, Klebnikov averred, assassinated his business rivals – one with an obscure nerve toxin – while the authorities stood by and let it happen on account of the oligarch's connections with top Kremlin officials. When Putin rose to power, however, and turned against Berezovsky – his former supporter and patron – the rule of the oligarchs was over. Berezovsky, Nevzlin, and the others fled Russia, and haven't stopped plotting to discredit and ultimately overthrow their nemesis ever since.
I agree, Berezovsky is the central figure to the mystery and the above paragraph by Raimondo gives the key to understanding why. Berezovsky, like his fellow oligarchs, took over Soviet assets using Western (? Rothschild) money and Putin has attempted to recover those assets and punish the perps. Hence it is not surprising that the UK media is blaming Putin for the poisoning of Litvinenko nor is it surprising that the great Zionist patriot, Joe Biden, has rushed in to malign Putin although he does not state clearly why.
news.yahoo.com
>>Key US Senator wants "confrontation" with Putin
Incoming chairman of the Senate foreign affairs committee, Joe Biden, called for the United States to challenge Russian President Vladimir Putin following the poisoning death of former KGB spy and Kremlin critic Alexandre Litvinenko.
"I don't know whether he's involved (in the poisoning), but our relations with Russia have to get straightened out to begin with," Biden said on Fox television.
"Russia is moving more and more toward an oligarchy here. Putin is consolidating power," Biden said, adding that the United States had failed to challenge Putin for several years.
"I think that Russia is sliding further away from genuine democracy and a free-market system and more toward a command economy and the control of a single man," he said, adding that he is "not a big fan of Putin's."
"I think we should have a direct confrontation with Putin politically about the need for him to change his course of action," Biden said.<<
PS. Someone has informed me that Berezovsky is seeking to buy an exclusive property in Cape Town. No smoke without fire. |
