Deputy of Russian GRU dies in Syria, washes up in Turkey

[Magda Hassan]

From the Caucus Islamist beloved by Washington.

Mossad claims GRU General killed by CE Mujahideen, Palestinians and GRU say Mossad did it

Publication time: 31 August 2010, 13:31

According to a Jewish website Debkafile, which has close ties to the Zionist terrorist gang of Mossad, which in turn is no less closely linked to the Russian terrorist gang of the FSB, a Russian-speaking general of the terrorist gang of the GRU "Ivanov" has allegedly been killed in Syria by Caucasian Mujahideen. The Debkafile writes:

"Debkafile's Middle East sources do not believe he accidentally drowned but find it more likely that was murdered and his body thrown into the sea. They say it is inconceivable that the deputy head of GRU would have gone swimming without bodyguards, especially at a Russian foreign base, and drowned without anyone noticing.

Even if he did drown accidentally, his guards would not have rested until they recovered his body and not let drift for miles.

Furthermore, Latakia is a summer resort frequented by high-ranking Syrian and Gulf emirate officials with their families. Its bathing beaches are well guarded by security personnel as well as professional life-savers, who would have been instantly alerted to any mishap in the water.

Our sources surmise that Gen. Yuri Ivanov went missing from a private, secretive engagement from which his aides and guards were banished to wait outside, not swimming alone in the sea of Latakia. This would account for the delay in reporting his disappearance.

They recall in this regard his former position as head of the North Caucasus branch of Russian military intelligence, which he held until late 2006. In this capacity he played a leading role in clandestine operations against al Qaeda and the Chechen revolt. Among the many terrorist groups present in Syria are al Qaeda cells from the Caucasian".

An official Palestinian government (according to Hamas) news agency, the Palestinian Information Center, writes with reference to the GRU:

"Experts in the Russian military community do not rule out that the general of the Chief Intelligence Directorate (AKA GRU), as a carrier of important classified information, could have been kidnapped by the "Israeli" spy service Mossad, and after attempts to knock out information from him (including the tortures that leave no traces on the body), he was killed.

We would like to note from our part that the GRU general "Ivanov" was hardly killed in Syria. It is to be recalled that according to Russian claims, he allegedly drowned in Syria on 6 August.

According to Turkish media dated 13 August a corpse was fished out in Turkey on August 8 rather far from the border to Syria. Russians stated that it is their corpse. The corpse decomposed, and Russians "identified" it only by a cross on its neck

Usually, a few days are required for a corpse to rise the surface from seabed. In most favorable cases (water is very warm), the body can surface only after 1 day, but not earlier.

If the improbable happened and the corpse surfaced on August 7, it could not cover in one day the distance of 75 km (on the straight line from Latakia to the Turkish border). Moreover, corpses do not swim in a straight line, and the place of its discovery is more than 75 km from Latakia. Thus, it was not the dead body of GRU's "Ivanov", allegedly drowned in Syriain that was fished out in Turkey on August, but of a corpse of an unknown person.

According to a usually well informed Polish agency Polska Web News, which received insider information from the Polish military, the GRU general "Ivanov" was drowned in the bathtub of his Moscow apartment between August 24 and August 26. The official obituary appeared in the Russian military newspaper Red Star on August 28.

Department of Monitoring


Kavkaz Center

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