Opinion: In Oblivion. Moscow Journalist Killed

Opinion

A Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya has been found dead in Moscow, Russia, on Saturday, October 7, 2006. She had been previously reported to be working for the FSB. State-controlled Russian media assumes that she was killed not out of antisemitism although she was jewish but because of her "professional activity", whatever it was. Her role in the FSB-led psychological war against Islam in the Caucasus was to discredit the Chechen leadership in Western and FSB-backed  Russian "insiders" press, i.e. a special-topics press is not designed for the general reader.

Thus her articles containing FSB insinuations, lies and fabrications against, for example, Shamil Basaev, were first published in an obscure Moscow paper and then translated and reprinted in the West by such institutions as the Jamestown Foundation, a US "antiterrorist" psychological warfare entity

When suspicions arouse in connection with rumors about her assumed work for the FSB with regard to her slanderous activity in the FSB information  war against the Jihad in the Caucasus, she was said to feign a "poisoning by the FSB" when she traveled by plane to Beslan during a Russian terrorists' siege of a local school there in September 2004 that led to a bloodbath of hundreds of innocent children in the hands of  FSB murderers. The pretended "attempt on her life" seemed to calm and persuade the West that she purportedly was not a FSB agent after all. Well, if the FSB poisons somebody, they do it for certain. So it was not a poisoning as it seems but  a public relations campaign of the FSB to rehabilitate their agent.

The West considered that woman as a kind of an agent of Western influence. Probably, she was,  in a sense. There is much in common between Russia and the West in certain areas. And the Western mainstream media is now reporting  about her killing much more than about a death of a president in a middle-level European country. That third-rated yellow journalist is being praised in the West  as "prominent",  "noted", "known", "well-known", "leading", "famous", veteran", "outspoken" etc.

We shall never know for certain why that woman was killed as we shall never know if she had been a staff officer of the FSB or a free-lancer, spying and slandering the Mujahideen for her FSB masters.

We can only assume, without any hope that we are being right in our assumption, that the FSB killed their agent  because she knew too much. They always do it.

Certainly, it was not the Russian puppet Kadyrov, who killed her as the FSB-controlled Russian media tries to persuade us. That puppet is not free, like Karzai in Afghanistan. He would never dare to kill anybody in Moscow out of his personal whim.

She was killed by the FSB, and that is the only question in this case that we can answer almost for certain.