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Page 3 of 9 Not many editors would agree to publish these stories. I have met many who tell me: “Listen, leave it alone, how much is possible… One would like something more spiritually uplifting.”
The women there have developed their own sense of humor. They can laugh and cry simultaneously. So, a ‘Grad’ rocket flew overhead. It is a terrible sight, it hisses, it is horrible, I am afraid and the Chechen women are also afraid. Then they say: “Look, they’re catching Basayev. Explain to your military that a ‘Grad’ is a weapon of mass destruction, not a precision weapon.”
“So what have all these people turned into?” wrote Anna Politkovskaya back then. “The infants, the burned girls, the hungry old people? They are small details in a huge war canvas. They are the smears on that big picture that are not visible from a distance. They are woodchips, about whom no one cares. What is the whole process called, have you forgotten? I will remind you: “The tree are cut down and let the chips fly were they may.”
I repeat, that this was in November of 1999. Then came ‘Nord-Ost’ and the human woodchips at ‘Nord-Ost’ numbered 129 hostages, poisoned by our own commandos using “an unknown” gas, and the Federal Parliament refused to do any investigation whatsoever.
Back then Anna Politkovskaya published an interview with the militant who successfully passed through the triple cordon around Dubrovka. Khanpasha Terkibayev hinted that it was he who brought the terrorists (to Moscow), and that he did so under orders of from federal security agencies (exactly which agencies he would not say). He boasted that, after ‘Nord-Ost’ on behalf of the Putin administration he conducted negotiations with members of the Ichkeria Parliament, and then took these MPs to Strasbourg where they demonstrated to the European MPs their complete loyalty to Moscow. He claimed that he consulted with such high-level leaders from the presidential administration as Vladislav Surkov and Sergei Yastrzhembsky.
Eight months later, on December 15th, 2003, Khanpasha Terkibayev was killed in an automobile accident on the Grozny highway in the village of Chervlyonaya Station.
Then there was the Beslan. Anna Politkovskaya did not make it there. On the airplane she drank a glass of water and awoke in intensive care in a hospital in Rostov. The nurse told her straight out: “You were poisoned.” The doctor confirmed it. He did blood tests, but he was told to destroy the results. Those who heard, read, and knew all this found it unbearable to listen to how they reported the murder of Anna Politkovskaya. That Saturday night, on ‘Vesti’ television, they said her articles were directed against corruption. The masses know very well that the word ‘corruption’ means, first and foremost, bribes. In so doing, they tried to switch Anna Politkovskaya’s activities to an entirely different area.
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