Ukraine's opposition was to be smeared with staged terror attack

[theearthisround]

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=590117

Ukraine's embattled government is ready to stage faked terrorist attacks to destabilise the country and discredit the opposition ahead of a rerun of the presidential vote, a senior government source has told The Independent.

The official, who works for the government of the Moscow-backed candidate and current Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, said: "One of the plans is to blow up a pipeline and blame it on opposition supporters. Ukraine is the key transit country for Russian gas supplies to the West."

Mr Yanukovych's backers fear the prospect of their candidate losing to Viktor Yushchenko and are ready to plunge the country into economic chaos, the source revealed. "They are planning to use criminals - plain bandits - that they have a hold over." The source said that a senior member of the government had been tasked with overseeing terrorist acts.

[JohnnyCougar]

1. Hmmmm....sounds vaguely familiar.

[New Earth]

2. this world really is fucked up

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Hmmmm where have I haerd this before?

[JNelson6563]

4. Monkey see monkey do

Seems the trained chimp has set a fine example.

[Just Me]

5. Man,...this disease is spreading like wildfire!!! n/t

[wordout]

6. BULLSHIT! staged terror attacks are a "western" favorite.

Mr Yanukovych, close the borders and ground flights! do it NOW!!Arrest the western instigators and parade them before your people!

:pissed:

[Nordic]

7. this is all part of a global "war on democracy" that started in the US

and has been perpetuated by Russia and is now spreading everywhere.

[frictionlessO]

8. sick but astoundingly familiar

[Ganja Ninja]

9. Why not tamper with the food supply?

Thank Tommy Thompson for that idea.

If that's not to their liking they could mail out some envelopes with anthrax in them. Nothing like the classics.

[DemBones DemBones]

10. Did this thread attract little attention because no one cares

about the story? Seems pretty interesting to me.

[AllyCat]

11. Unbelieveable, these people are just crazy

Maybe the Rapture theorists (conspirists?) are right. Murderous freaks.

[Igel]

12. The country's so riven that I don't believe

the Independent's source.

He said/she said: Gee, do I trust a source that would have attended a high-level meeting? Dunno. But it's easy to deceive the press.

Shades of Princess Bride: Actually it was a Yanukovych supporter who alleged that Yanukovych's supporters will do this, cleverly believing that we will assume that actually it's Yushchenko's supporters who are trying to make us believe that Yanukovych's supporters are going to do it so that we won't suspect them. :D

But really: when a liberal candidate demands that the prez fire the prime minister and any governor in a Yanukovych-supporting region that favored autonomy (not independence!), and then there are rumors that his supporters blocked MPs in until they pass the electoral reform that they wanted ... non-violent, but hardly in favor of free debate. Better than acid in the ballot boxes, but let's not push that too far. I stay out of Ukrainian politics.