The Case of the Poisoned Spy (Eugene Robinson)

[Virginia Dare]

Conspiracy theories always turn out to be nothing more than paranoid fantasy. At their heart lies the notion that while the rest of us blithely go about doing whatever it is we think we're doing, occult and all-powerful forces are really running the world -- starting wars, engineering suspicious plane crashes, surveying the next grassy knoll. Take this stuff too seriously and you find yourself on the corner with the Lyndon LaRouche people, trying to convince passersby that the queen of England is actually a ruthless drug dealer in sensible pumps.

But every once in a while, an episode such as the death of Alexander Litvinenko comes along to boost the morale of conspiracy theorists -- and remind the rest of us that there does exist a secret world full of characters and plotlines so bizarre and implausible that the bard of betrayal, novelist John le Carre, would be embarrassed to write them.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/27/AR2006112701023.html

[spillthebeans]

1. Like Alexander pointed out that Putin is bombing his own citizen

http://eng.terror99.ru/publications/#litvinenko


cough* cough*

MOSCOW (AP) - A former Russian security agent presented evidence Thursday that he said supports his claim that the KGB's successor agency was behind a series of deadly apartment-house bombings that thrust Russia into a new war in Chechnya.

[Virginia Dare]

3. Hmm, false flag attacks...

perpetrated to incite war, where have I heard that one before?

[stansnark]

5. uh, throughout history ?

[Virginia Dare]

7. Not in any of the history books I read in school...

;-)

Welcome to DU!

[MADem]

2. But....but....but....didn't the Monkey look into Pootie-Poot's eyes, and see his SOUL?

Guess old Soul Man Pootie likes to send other souls to heaven!!!!

[villager]

4. "*always* turn out to be nothing more than...?"

Yeah, gotta keep the lid on too many questions/connections between the 60's assassinations, vote fraud, the rise of the right, etc., etc....

[tom_paine]

6. So, Pooty-Poot staged his own terror attacks so he would be able to attack Muslims at will

Wow! He really IS Bushler's Soulmate.

I wonder if they actually compared notes back in that April or May 2001 meeting for what they were going to do to their respective countries?