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Obama cancels Poland trip due to volcano fallout The Associated Press Saturday, April 17, 2010; 2:56 PM WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama has canceled plans to travel to Poland for the funeral of President Lech Kaczynski (lekh kah-CHIN'-skee). A White House statement Saturday cited hazardous flying conditions posed by the ash cloud from the erupting volcano in Iceland. The cloud has forced huge portions of European airspace to be closed. The fear is that microscopic particles of highly abrasive ash could endanger passengers by causing aircraft engines to fail. Obama was to leave Washington on Saturday night for Sunday's state...

President Lech Kaczynski and his beloved wife Maria will rest tommorow in the Wawel Castle in Krakow - the final resting place of Poland’s medieval kings and national heroes - the heart of Poland - close to Jozef Pilsudski (the leader of pre-war Poland).

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"I don't think it was done intentionally. I excluded such a possibility, but it was an unfortunate coincidence, yes." Those haunting words were of "lifelong skeptic of Russia" Lech Kaczynski, the late president of Poland. Kaczynski discussed with Brett Baier of Fox News the unusual concurrence of President Obama reversing the Bush administration's U.S. Patriot missile defense decision on the 70th anniversary of Russia invading Poland. In 2008, the United States and Poland sealed a deal that in 2010, ten interceptor missiles would be deployed to a military base near the Baltic coast. The missiles were due to be situated...

Poland holds public memorial for crash victims By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA and MATT MOORE (AP) – 1 hour ago WARSAW, Poland — Some 100,000 Poles filled Warsaw's biggest public square Saturday, joining together for a memorial and funeral mass for the 96 people killed in a plane crash a week earlier. They stood silent for two minutes before emergency sirens screamed and church bells pealed. The crowd in Pilsudski Square waved white-and-red Polish flags with black ribbons of mourning affixed to them. A massive white stage, a large cross in the center, was flanked by oversized photos of the dead, including...

If anyone knows Russian or Polish, can you verify what the person with the camera is saying. If this is a true undercover taping, this could be horrible to think of the consequences.

Polish internet users are shocked by Belgian cartoons on Kaczynski death Published 14 April, 2010, 20:06 Poland is disturbed by a Belgian newspaper’s cartoons on the recent deadly plane crash, in which died Polish president Lech Kazcynski, his wife and dozens of Polish political, cultural and religious elite. Yahoo StumbleUpon Google Live Technorati del.icio.us Digg Reddit Mixx Propeller On Monday, Gazet van Antwerpen published a cartoon picturing an eagle (Poland’s’ emblem) with the Polish flag as a background and phrase "The Eagle Has Landed," reports RMF FM. The drawing has drawn infuriated feedback from Polish speakers all over the world....

Poles queue through the night to honour president WARSAW — Mourners queued into the early hours of Wednesday to show their grief for Poland's first couple, killed in an air crash in Russia, as US President Barack Obama said he would attend their funeral. The line of tearful people waiting to see the bodies of Polish president Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria lying in state at the presidential palace in Warsaw stretched for more than a kilometre (over half a mile). The bodies of 30 other victims were expected to be flown home later Wednesday, the first to be...

US President Barack Obama will attend the funeral of his Polish counterpart Lech Kaczynski, killed in an air crash in western Russia on Saturday. The presidents of Russia and France, Dmitry Medvedev and Nicolas Sarkozy, are also due to attend the funeral in the city of Krakow on Sunday. Mr Kaczynski and his wife Maria will be buried in a crypt close to historic Polish leader Jozef Pilsudski. The date of the next presidential election is to be announced shortly.

An amateur video - looks like the author appeared at the crash site before the rescuers and security service. Take a look especially at 57 sec., and later. I can hear several gunhots, pretty clearly. WTF?????!!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkEmHSIVDwE&feature=player_embedded

Obama to attend Kaczynski funeral 13.04.2010 22:01 President Barack Obama will be in Poland to attend Lech Kaczynski’s funeral on Sunday in Krakow. “The president will travel to Krakow to express the depth of our condolences to an important and trusted ally and our support for the Polish people, on behalf of the American people," says a White House statement. Following the death of President Kaczynski, First Lady Maria and 94 others in Saturday’s plane crash in Smolensk, President Obama said: "Our thoughts and prayers are with the Kaczynski family, the loved ones of those killed in this tragic plane...

Their Daughter People waiting in a line

WARSAW, April 12 (Xinhua) -- So far there is no evidence to show that the pilot was trying to land the president's plane under pressure, said a senior Polish official here Monday. Andrzej Seremet, Poland's chief prosecutor, made the remarks at a news conference while being asked whether the Polish pilot was pressured to land the plane carrying President Lech Kaczynski and other senior officials in Russia. The Soviet-made TU-154 hit the top of trees as it attempted in thick fog to land at a Smolensk airport in west Russia on Saturday morning, killing all the 96 people on board...

The plane crash Saturday that wiped out much of Poland's political and military leadership -- including President Lech Kaczynski -- was a staggering blow to a nation that's struggled, successfully, to rebuild in the post- Communist era. It also offers the world, especially Washington, a chance to reflect on the Eastern European nation's strategic value as Russia seeks to reclaim a dominant role in global affairs. Democracy and capitalism have borne fruit in Poland, where Soviet hegemony -- and international communism -- began to unravel 30 years ago. Last year, Poland's GDP swelled by nearly 2 percent, even as much...

An ally who feared U.S. indifference. Tragedy In Smolensk: Lech Kaczynski was a Polish patriot and a friend of the West who believed in the defense of freedom and democracy. We don't have many friends like him, and we treated him shabbily. Numerologists might note the number 70 figured prominently in both the life and death of Poland's president. Kaczynski, 60, his wife Maria, an economist, and 95 others who died Saturday on their way to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the massacre of 22,000 Polish prisoners in the Katyn Forest in western Russia in 1940 by Stalin's secret...

The recent tragic plane crash which just happened killing a large group of prominent polish personalities(many conservatives)could have opportunatly cleared the way for some ideologists and krypto-tyrants like OBAMA and PUTIN.... But shamefully for those Thugs in chief, KACZYNSKI's twin could be ba-ack after the next elections in POLAND...

The Glory of Poland By ROGER COHEN Published: April 12, 2010 NEW YORK — My first thought, hearing of the Polish tragedy, was that history’s gyre can be of an unbearable cruelty, decapitating Poland’s elite twice in the same cursed place, Katyn. My second was to call my old friend Adam Michnik in Warsaw. Michnik, an intellectual imprisoned six times by the former puppet-Soviet Communist rulers, once told me: “Anyone who has suffered that humiliation, at some level, wants revenge. I know all the lies. I saw people being killed. But I also know that revanchism is never ending. And...

US senator offers resolution honoring late Polish president (AFP) – 41 minutes ago WASHINGTON — A top US senator on Monday proposed a resolution honoring the lives of Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife, and the 94 others killed when their airplane crashed over the weekend. "Together with the Polish nation and friends of Poland worldwide, I mourn this unbelievably tragic loss," Richard Lugar, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said as he introduced the symbolic measure. The measure marks the "terrible tragedy," honors "the life and legacy" of Kaczynski and of all of the Poles who...