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THE FAR West DruG MeTAGROUP DruGS, MANAGED VIOLENCE AND THE RUSSIAN 9/11 MetAGrouP THE FAR WEST DRUG DrucGs, MANAGED VIOLENCE AND THE RUSSIAN 9/11 The group accused of staging the Russian 9/11 has links with organised criminal societies, foreign private military companies, Islamist jihadists, Central Asian narcobarons and the CIA. Part 2 of 2 2004, at http://www.ru.compromat] links Saidov, Surikov and others to their former service in a drug-interception group in Afghanistan under a Leonid Kosyakov, who in 2004 headed a company called Far West Ltd: Leonid Leonidovich Kosyakov, b. 1955, Ukrainian citizen. Until 2005 resided in Arab Emirates and Switzerland. Citizen of Ukraine. Retired from the service in May 1993. Presently the president of Far West Ltd. In 1983-85 Kosyakov was in command of a special group in Shindand (Afghanistan), assigned to intercept caravans with drugs. In different times under his direct command served Filin, Lunev, Likhvintsev, Surikov, Petrov, as well as Saidov.* N 7 asenev [in his essay "An Orange Revolution is in Store for Russia", December 17, Yasenev also presents testimony that this group developed into what the Russians call an "OPS" (organised criminal society), responsible for massive drug-trafficking: These accusations were made by the former officer of the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine Sergei Petrov (alias Serge Rodin, French citizen). According to his testimony: "The OPS...was involved in drug trafficking since the beginning of 1990s: — from 1995 the OPS transports heroin (produced in Afghanistan) from Tajikistan to European countries via Russia with the assistance of the Russian Defense Ministry. — from 2000 the OPS is involved in smuggling Colombian cocaine to Russia through the seaports of Novorossiysk and St Petersburg under the disguise of import shipments from Latin America. "Among the OPS contacts in Novorossiysk is Saidov; in St Petersburg it used to be Roman Tsepov. "Received profits are used for personal enrichment of the OPS leaders, the officials at the Ministry of Defense who provide them with "the roof" [protection], and for financing extremist activities." In November of 2003, Rodin contacted the law enforcement agencies of Germany and France. Their investigation did not result in any actions against Filin, Likhvintsev, and their partners. In January 2004, Rodin was blown up in his car in South Africa... Yasenev's charge of a military organised crime group under Filin had been reported a year earlier by Russian journalist Nikita Kaledin [Stringer-news, November 4, 2003]: There is a powerful military organised crime community which from 1992 through to the present has controlled substantial drug flows from Afghanistan to Russia and Europe and is also involved in laundering "dirty" money and is actively involved in Russia's political life. The community is controlled by former intelligence officers, Afghan war veterans, and now drug barons Vova Filin and Lesha Pribalt. The former lives in Switzerland, the latter by Peter Dale Scott, PhD in London. Both make quite frequent trips to Moscow, Dushanbe, Nazran, and Khankala... Filin and Pribalt literally flooded Russia with heroin. The Kremlin could not tolerate Website: this abomination any longer and ordered a mighty "Chekist raid" [i.e., ordered the FSB to http://www.peterdalescott.net shut down the operation] against the narcobarons. However, it is rumoured that the raid has ended up with the agreement that the latter would (1) share their profits; (2) help in facilitating the peaceful referendum on the constitution in Chechnya; (3) bring some order to the drug market by liquidating the leaders of ethnic criminal groups.” by Peter Dale Scott, PhD © October 2005 - June 2006 Website: http://www. peterdalescott.net NEXUS + 21 Allegations of Drug-Trafficking and Far West Ltd AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2006 www.nexusmagazine.com