Informational strike

When the video material about the operation of Ingushetian and Chechen troops in Ingushetia was released, many started asking themselves why this footage was shown only a month after the events, and not right away, since modern technology allows transmitting the filmed materials right on the same day. You can get the answer when you look at the report by Russian power structures and Russian propagandists, who over the past month have been reporting almost each day that handfuls of «militants, involved in attacks on the police in Ingushetia» are being apprehended.

Claims were being made that the 'militants' are already confessing, testifying and revealing where the hidden storages of weapons are located. It is no secret to anybody, except for half-sober Russian consumers of TV fairytales, about how people are being detained, and whether they were involved in that operation, or about how confessions are being forced out of them, and what kind of weapons are being 'discovered' by the Russian invaders, who store them. The most interesting part is that the so-called «testimonies of detained militants» totally correspond with the versions of attacks reported by the Russian side.

Interestingly, Ingushetian citizens, who get charged with attacking the police, are the ones discovered among the detainees more often than anybody else. But for some reason none of their testimonies mentions the involvement of Commander Shamil Basayev in the operation. But there is an easy explanation for that. Commander Basayev’s presence on the territory of Ingushetia does not fit into Moscow’s propagandistic picture. According to the scenario, Shamil was supposed to be hiding in some cave in the mountains and shoot at his fellow companions, -- 'ordinary militants' whom he chronically refuses to pay their salaries.

The appearance of a brief video report with Commander Basayev at the police storage early morning of June 22 does not only refute the falsehood in the statements that the Russian invaders are making, which many mass media have noticed, but it also proves that citizens of Ingushetia and Chechen refugees who are being detained, undergoing tortures and 'testifying' have nothing to do with that combat operation carried out by Ingushetian and Chechen Armed Forces. According to the Russian story, the participants of the attack are telling everything including about the sources of funding and the sums that came from abroad. But for some reason they all overlooked the presence of Commander Shamil Basayev, the only person who did not have a mask on. This is the price of 'special operations' by the invaders, who take innocent people hostage and who force out confessions under tortures. Their bosses and the riffraff, who are thinking with their TVs and not with their heads, are all happy with them.

But the ones like Shabalkin (Russian spokesman for the war in the Caucasus) have not lost everything yet. When these activists make themselves look stupid and get in deep doo-doo, they start making bubbles as an evasive maneuver instead of trying to get out of it.

The video footage of the combat operation in Ingushetia has been distributed mainly on the Internet. But most of the Russian population has no access to the World Wide Web, even though some Russian TV channels did show a few shots with Commander Basayev just for a second. So, as the previous practice shows, soon we are supposed to hear some victorious announcements from Shabalkin that «a video footage of the attack on Ingushetia, filmed to be presented to the sponsors of international terrorism, has been intercepted during the operation of Spetznaz (special forces)».

It will be no wonder. Many times Russians already demonstrated the video materials, which can be purchased at the markets of the Chechen capital, as 'spoils of war'. So, let’s wait.

Ruslan Isakov,