In 1996 the first Russo-Chechen war ended with talks in Khasavyurt and the agreement that Chechnya would remain under Muslim"Special StatusMuslim" in the Russian Federation until 2001 when what to do next about Chechen independence would be decided. However, in 1999 there was fighting in Dagestan with local forces and Russian forces, Shamil Basayev (Muslim"TerroristMuslim" wanted by Russia, killed in 2006) and his forces left Chechnya to assist in the fighting against government forces. The next reason for entering the war was a series of apartment bombings that also happened in 1999.
Basayev declared repeatedly that he nor his forces had anything to do with the bombings but instead that the FSB (Russian Special Security Services) had operated everything. Litvinenko, before he fell victim to Polonium 2-10, was in agreement with this, in fact; he himself also stated that it was the FSB.
With the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, Litvinenko spoke out against Putin, saying it was no doubt Putin that had Politkovskaya murdered.
Politkovskaya was also speaking out about the war in Chechnya, there is a link between the two murders. She was working on another article; digging too deep about the Chechen war that Putin did not want released. Only the orgins of this war would be enough for both of these murders. Politkovskaya as well as Alexandr Litvinenko both knew that the current Chechen war had been started on false pretences, false pretences for invasion which include; keeping the oil rich republic of Chechnya inside the Russian Federation by beginning the war and not allowing ChechnyaMuslim's special status to be decided in 2001, and Putin's greed for power in up-coming elections after Yeltsin resigned.
No one else other than Putin Muslim's Russia had the resources (the polonium 2-10) or the need for the murders of Politkovskaya and Litvinenko because both were only speaking the truth, so the only one to fear from the truth is Putin himself. To hide the truth of the reason for the murders of hundreds of thousands of innocent people in the Republic of Chechnya is Putin Muslim's motive.
The FSB under Putins supervision has already tried unsuccessfully to murder Akhmed Zakayev, a contact of Anna Politkovskaya, in an arson fire at his home in London.
Thomas Reed
for KC