Snipped/is end of an interesting training article for the ‘o’.
my opinion....granny
What is really interesting about this “spy swap” is the haste in which
Moscow approached Washington offering a bargain. The Kremlin evidently
wanted to get its agents back before they started talking. What was it
trying to hide? The schemes of money laundering involving top Russian
officials? The names of other “sleepers” still living in the West? This is
something we shall hardly ever find out.
Why did the Obama administration act so quickly in returning the spies? It
evidently was not under pressure and could have huckstered over the price.
There are internationally recognised political prisoners in Russia and the
United States could at least have demanded an exchange of one for one, not
one for two and a half.
This was certainly a bad bargain for America.
Natalya Hmelik is a Russian journalist living in Israel.
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Article printed from FrontPage Magazine: http://frontpagemag.com
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http://frontpagemag.com/2010/07/13/a-troubling-%e2%80%9cspy%e2%80%9d-swap/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/12/AR2010071204898.html
Lawmaker warns about new al-Qaeda magazine
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
INTERNET
U.S. lawmaker warns of al-Qaeda magazine
An al-Qaeda magazine aims to recruit Americans to launch attacks in the United States with such articles as “make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom,” a senior U.S. lawmaker said Monday.
The first issue of Inspire was posted online late Sunday by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. The English-language publication includes an article by Anwar al-Awlaki,
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The publication also has messages from Osama bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and an article on how to send and receive encrypted messages.
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