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NSA "Went Dark" on Caucasus Region Hours Before Beslan Attack

General Joe | 01.11.2007 13:30 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Terror War | World

"Class of Nations, Terror War" just one huge Psyop play of western Imperialism?

"NSA’s sophisticated surveillance platforms “went dark,” in an unprecedented manner, on unencrypted South Ossetia and Caucasus regional communications shortly before the Beslan incident. That indicates that high-level parties in the U.S. knew of the attack in advance and did not want NSA intercepts to yield the identities of the terrorist planners and leaders."

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NSA "Went Dark" on Caucasus Region Hours Before Beslan Attack
By: Onkolog on: 01.11.2007 [09:00 ] (148 reads)

"Class of Nations, Terror War" just one huge Psyop play of western Imperialism?

NSA’s sophisticated surveillance platforms “went dark,” in an unprecedented manner, on unencrypted South Ossetia and Caucasus regional communications shortly before the Beslan incident. That indicates that high-level parties in the U.S. knew of the attack in advance and did not want NSA intercepts to yield the identities of the terrorist planners and leaders.

According to sources at the National Security Agency (NSA), hours before a group of Chechen separatists took 1200 children and adults hostage at a school in Beslan, in the Russian republic of North Ossetia-Alania, NSA intercepts of INMARSAT (International Maritime Satellite) and cell phone traffic in the region “went dark.” Analysts at NSA and the Medina Regional SIGINT Operations Center (MRSOC) in San Antonio, Texas had been monitoring cell phone and INMARSAT phone traffic in Beslan but all communications intercepts of traffic suddenly ceased.

After seizing the school, the attackers, claimed to have been Chechen Islamist terrorists, confiscated all the cell phones of all the adults. They also insisted that all hostages speak Russian and not Ossetian or else they would be killed. After a three-day siege, Russian security forces stormed the school. 396 people, the majority of whom were child hostages, were killed in the siege. Seventy percent of the victims were Muslims. President Vladimir Putin’s aide Aslambek Aslakhanov said the attackers were not Chechens because they only spoke Russian. Freed hostages said the terrorists spoke Russian with heavy foreign accents.

Russia linked some of the hostage takers to Islamist exiles in London, where the now much-adored former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko was assisting Russian-Israeli mobster/tycoon Boris Berezovsky to help Chechen and other anti-Russian forces to help topple the Putin government in Moscow. Litvinenko later died from polonium poisoning, an act blamed on Putin but appears to have been a Russian-Israeli mafia hit designed to eliminate an uncomfortable witness to dubious and illegal activities by the Russian-Israeli mafia based in London, Tel Aviv, and New York.

A Russian parliamentary commission, headed by Alexander Torshin, later concluded that there was evidence of involvement of a “foreign intelligence agency” in the Beslan incident. The agency was not named.

The fact that the NSA’s sophisticated surveillance platforms “went dark,” in an unprecedented manner, on unencrypted South Ossetia and Caucasus regional communications shortly before the Beslan incident indicates that high-level parties knew of the attack in advance and did not want NSA intercepts to yield the identities of the terrorist planners and leaders.

Such an infiltration of NSA and targeted satellite and cellular communications systems in Russia could have only come from within the Bush administration, the telecommunications industry, and/or that of NSA’s SIGINT partner, the United Kingdom's Government Communcations Headquarters (GCHQ). The Beslan tragedy was not only used to detract from Putin’s strongest suit, domestic security, but was used by the neocons to try to entice Russia into the American-British wars and planned “anti-terrorism” wars against Iraq, Iran, Syria, and other countries.

Source: Wayne Madsen Report, 30.10.07

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