To begin with, the Editor is complying with requests from 'friends' to hold back the devastating intelligence that we have prepared, pending the outcome of matters currently continuing behind the scenes. In the past when such requests were conveyed to us, the criminalist US kleptocracy exploited the situation and took advantage of our silence. The present circumstances APPEAR to be qualitatively different, judging by information from reliable sources to hand. Therefore, to be of assistance, we comply, the judgment being often a fine one: would publication of the new research deliver a powerful kick in the pants where needed, or would it be liable to hinder resolution?

Given the current 'unfolding of events' (to cite Lenin again), we have accepted good advice that publication of certain information needs to be held back in order not to become entangled in 'real time' considerations (this issue arose in June, you may recall). We do not intend to remain silent for longer than is absolutely necessary, especially in view of our intelligence gathered, for instance, on the extent of DVD penetration, subversion and chaos-building operations that we know about.

PUTIN'S RESPONSES TO NON-PAYMENT OF THE $87 BILLION HE DEMANDED AND IS OWED

As previously reported, GRU-Prime Minister Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin did not receive the $87 billion that he demanded must be placed in his bank account by Monday 18th August. The trail of exactly what happened next went tepid, if not cold: but in essence, the Soviet military, directed by the GRU (Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoye Upravleniye, or Soviet Military Intelligence, a.k.a. the Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the General Staff, the most effective military intelligence organisation in the world), positioned forces strategically located so that the Georgian segment of the pipeline can be seized at any time. Putin then let it be known that payment would have to be completed by the close of business EDT on Friday 22nd August, or he reserved all his options.

Overnight, in the early hours of Saturday morning, a train carrying crude oil was bombed on the line running between Baku, Tbilisi, Gori and the port of Poti that has been extensively destroyed so that it has become useless for US purposes (which explains why USS McFaul has been unloading 'aid' deliveries into the southern port of Batumi, in the semi-autonomous Georgian province of Adjaria, which is controlled by a tin-pot quasi-dictator).

THE BOMBING OF THE CRUDE OIL TRAIN WAS PUTIN'S RESPONSE TO THE FACT THAT HIS EXTENDED DEADLINE OF FRIDAY EVENING EDT WAS MISSED.

According to our reliable sources, NO MENTION OF THE BOMBING OF THIS TRAIN HAD YET SURFACED IN THE U.S. MEDIA AT THE TIME OF THIS UPDATE.

By contrast, the whole of page 29 of The Times, London, was devoted to this matter, complete with a large and horrifying picture of the Azpetrol (Azerbaijani Petrol) train on fire, while the whole of the upper portion of page 13 of The Daily Telegraph was devoted to a like report with a similar horriffic photograph. It can be taken as read that these photographs were distributed by 'authorities', since of course no Western photojournalist could possibly have known about this attack in advance, and in any case no access to the railway line would have been feasible.

As soon as we heard about this attack yesterday morning, from a UK source, the Editor knew that the Settlements had not 'happened' by Friday evening. Furthermore, when discussing this matter on the transatlantic telephone on Sunday evening and Monday afternoon UK time, eavesdropping activity and interference with the calls was more than usually evident. We conclude that the intel cells operating inside all US news rooms were ordered to ensure that no reference to this attack appeared in the US media.

An alternative explanation could be that the attack on the train was a US/Georgian provocation, but the overwhelming likelihood, especially given the precision timing, is that it represented Mr Putin's response to the further non-payment of his $87 billion and to the further thwarting of the Settlement payments. Moscow needs these payments because the US kleptocrats have sold vast qualtities of fraudulent paper assets, we believe, to the Russians. Implementation of the 'son of the Wanta Plan', as approved and desired by the G-7 powers, will refloat and validate some of these dud 'assets'.

To comment further on related matters at this stage risks treading on the 'real time' constraints that we have temporarily accepted, in the general interest, as outlined above.

The Soviet military were reported last week to have positioned SS-19 missiles in South Ossetia.

• FURTHER UPDATE, 7.30pm UK time, 25th August:

OIL TANKER SINKS IN THE BLACK SEA SATURDAY

A Georgian (supposedly) oil tanker sank in the Black Sea on Saturday, we have just learned. The cover story is that it sank in a violent storm. However we understand that there was no violent storm in the Black Sea yesterday. This event should therefore be seen as a further response by Putin and the GRU, following on from the blowing up of the oil train early Saturday morning in the above context of non-payment of the $87 billion due to him.

The White House has announced (Monday) that it is now reviewing its entire relationship with Russia. In other words, the Bush-directed operation focusing on the USSR triggered after the death of Andropov has now collapsed, as the unravelling of the US Black Operations mounted against the Rest of the World in conformity with the DVD agenda, accelerates.

www.worldreports.org/news/162_u.s._military_to_bush_we_will_not_allow_a_war_