Yes, "depressingly familiar". Hope some folks have tuned in on the Jeff Rense- Alex Jones interview last week on this topic. Meanwhile, as the US Government begins to up the brinksmanship ante with the Russians (see Chossudovsky's site for superb analysis), has not anybody considered the probability of the US "intelligence" services connections to this murder? Just who are the "bad guys" here? Politkovskaya's hit would be an easy mark to insinuate the work of devious Russian hands at work.

Sometimes people forget, that journalist are one of the most target profesions in the world.

Anya Politkovskaya was writing provocative material for the CIA and/or the US's evil elite powers that be for years and it fizzled and had no effect for years. The CIA created the so called "Chechen Independence Movement" as an operative mercenary group to help overthrow the Russian government as part of the general psychological operations plan to covertly place US elite backed powers into the Russian government. All the EAE's (Evil American Elite's)efforts have failed. All the US owned Russian journalists, oligarchs and political opposition have failed too. The only one that could possibly benefit from her murder would be the evil elite from the US.

Anya Politkovskaya and other pro-US Russian correspondents have been able to do nothing, alive, to help the EAE and now they are worth much more dead/murdered. The CIA and/or the strategic analysts of the EAE's Psyops have decided to kill their own Russian agents, therefore getting much more use out of them as false martyrs.

There is only one profession that is more dirty than journalism and that is politics. An enourmous amount of Russian journalists and American as well tow the official line for money and aline themselves with unofficial employers. Prostitutes are honest hard working people compared to them, so you cannot even call journalists prostitutes so as to not slander the good name of sex workers with such a vile comparison. When a sold out US backed "jounalist" is murdered, then they are dubbed a saint or a holy martyr.

The CIA and their commanding EAE can hire and fire as many of their little pawn journalists as they want. The question is: Are you going to buy that %*!@#%! for your mind?

Have a nice day!

Mr. Spangler, it is true that it is becoming harder and harder to tell what is true and what is false. Unofortunately, in the world we live, you can defend no one. And I agree absolutely with your opinion of journalists. It can be one of the vilest trades although they -especially the bad ones- depict themselves as the ones society should trust to right the wrongs.