the "Kursk" incident to rest. So the official version has been stated: an exploding torpedo inside the sub is what caused the disaster.

Well, anyone who carefully followed the "Kursk" tragedy here in Russia knows that this official governmental story is a complete falsehood. Since the tragedy there have been many unofficial publications published in Russia shedding light on the matter, some of which we at the Orthodox Anti-Globalist Resource Center intend to translate and make available in English.

As you probably remember, the nose of the "Kursk", was sawn off before the sub was raised, allegedly to avoid the possibility of an explosion during transport. Skeptics claimed that the government was really trying to leave the evidence for the real cause of the disaster on the ocean floor. Their suspicions were increased by the fact that no pictures of the sub's nose were ever shown to the public. It's possible that the nose of the sub was completely undamaged, for example, which would destroy the government's official explanation of the disaster.

But the official cover-up went awry when the sub was finally raised, for there, for all to see, was a perfectly round hole on the sub's hull, just at the point where the nose had been sawn off. (Apparently they sawed in the wrong place.) This hole was bent in at the edges, and could only have been caused by impact of an external object traveling at an extremely high speed. This article, which appeared in Russky Vestnik last November, written by one of that publication's readers, will take up the story from here...

These images of the "Kursk" were captured by the OAG Webmaster from an RTR Russian State Television news broadcast. There's the round hole.

The round hole is visible here too.

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After the demise of one of the world's best underwater cruisers, the atomic submarine "Kursk", the mass-media rushed to put forth dozens of versions regarding the reasons for the event. All of them either put the blame on the crew or invented a whole mass of unlikely scenarios which laid the blame on our technology. Only on the pages of "Russky Vestnik" did there appear an article by the Public Center for Strategic Research (Obshchestvennyj tsentr strategicheskikh issledovaniya), alleging that the "Kursk" sank as a result of an operation carried out by the USA using new weaponry. However, it was a bit difficult at the time to believe the United States capable of such villainy. A bit later there appeared an analytical paper entitled "Truth among the falsehoods" (Pravda sredi vymyslov), by the "Center for Situational Modelling" (Tsentr situatsionnogo modelirovaniya), claiming the intentional destruction of the atomic sub with the use of new weaponry. But this too proved hard to believe. The official version, meanwhile, claimed that an exploding torpedo sank the sub, maybe as a result of a collision with some sort of object.

Everyone seemed satisfied, more or less, with this explanation. Everything was convincing and realistic. And what with everything happening in the world -- it's hard to keep up with the informational overload: Some terrorists blew up America's peace of mind, and some other idiots shot down a Tu-154 over the Black Sea. [the Israeli passenger liner shot down by the Ukrainian Air Force, presumably by mistake. -- Webmaster] Over in Afghanistan the Americans began their battle against terrorists and they're not joking -- carpet bombing, and residential blocks even (take that for hiding terrorists under women's skirts!) ...

Admiral Vyacheslav Popov points to the round hole in the sub's hull.

But then finally they went and raised the "Kursk" and there, in spite of the sawed-off first section, in the middle of the hull you could see a nearly perfectly round hole, about a meter in diameter. And, with the TV cameras rolling, Attorney General Vladimir Ustinov, looking at that round hole, asks Admiral Vyacheslav Popov: "Now could that (hole) have occurred during the transporting of the submarine?". The Admiral answers in the negative... [Popov, an honest Admiral, was dismissed from his post as commander of the Northern Fleet by his superior, the corrupt Admiral Kuroyedov, shortly after the above-cited conversation took place. Popov, who tried to unmask the government's cover-up, now says that it will be many years before the names of the true guilty p arties will be known. -- Webmaster] Oh how unpleasant that the round hole remained, even after sawing off the submarine's nose. Otherwise, all those brave sailors over on the Potomac would have exclaimed: "No Problem!! These things happen ..., we have our accidents too. So let's launch Operation UNLIMITED JUSTICE throughout the whole planet and bomb everything which is the least suspiscious (beyond the borders of America, that is) and organize forums on Globalization ... only don't forget not to violate the human rights of the Chechens..."

Interesting, but who's going to defend the human rights of the "Kursk's" 118 crewmembers, murdered by the hypocritical Yankee with his new, specially-created weaponry, and subsequently blamed by him (with the help of the mass-media) for the sub's demise, as in the cases with recent air disasters (in Irkutsk, Pskov, Chkalovsky, over the Black Sea), as reported in "Russky Vestnik" by the Public Center for Strategic Research. [There's been a whole spate of air disasters involving Russian planes this summer (2002), also: the Tupolev airliner which collided with the DHL cargo plane over Germany, killing 60 children from Bashkiria; the Il-86 returning from Sochi to St. Petersburg which crashed, leaving only two survivors (the Il-86 had a perfect safety record before this accident), the disaster at the air show in L'vov which killed nearly a hundred spectators... Could these have been the work of American intelligence? The Bashkirian crash, in particular, was suspicious in many ways. -- Webmaster] (If this Center's materials were published more often, maybe it would put people's brains in order.) In all these cases the official commissions concluded that "the human factor was responsible".

The round hole, result of America's new weaponry.

Oh, if it weren't for that damned round hole, seen by millions of people on television... "Well, find a piece of metal in the sea or a rock or something", continue those same sailors on the Potomac, "capable of piercing the super-hard hull of the "Kursk". Any nonsense will do, and we'll forgive you a million dollars from your debt. You see, the evidence is just too painfully obvious, it just sticks out like a sore thumb! There it is, right there in the middle of the hull, that round hole, whose diameter corresponds exactly to the impact point of our new weaponry, and the edges of that accursed hole are neatly bent inwards, so that even a child can understand that if he takes a hammer and pounds a nail into a tin can, the same sort of ho le with the edges bent inwards will result... What's worse, Midshipman Borisov managed to scrawl a note about the real reason for the tragedy and put it into a bottle. We had to do a bit of "arm-twisting" on his mother to get her to say that a mere midshipman couldn't have understood anything about the real reasons, only those higher in rank. But no normal person's going to believe that nonsense.

"No, we'll have to organize a diversion of some sort, another World War, for example (with whom it doesn't matter; the main thing is to have a war), and to get everyone to go along with it we'll have to create maximum panic and chaos... You see, for those Russians the main thing is to avoid war at any cost. And although those Russkies are uncivilized, even they are able to guess that that round hole in the hull of the "Kursk" was created by us and our new technology. You see how elegant it is! Non-contact warfare! Actually it's no war at all, but a humanitarian action. We carried out that other humanitarian action, destroying Yugoslavia and her Orthodox churches and the world community's gotten over it, but of course that was simpler; we went after the terrorist Milosevic -- and what with our Ben Laden in Afghanistan the world community is sure to support our carpet bombing there. But here we h it a snag: Who would have thought that those Russian barbarians would raise the "Kursk" and the whole world would see that round hole... And if the Chinese and the Arabs guess who made the hole? Help!! We'll have to begin a war immediately!! A war for peace throughout the world, which we'll win -- at everyone else's expense!!!

Aleksandr, a reader of "Russky Vestnik"

Russky Vestnik is an Orthodox Christian weekly newspaper published in Moscow

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