Interesting comment on the Pravda site - I wonder what this is about?
Good article, the Russian government could release the records they have that led to Obamas detainment when he was on a bi-partisan fact finding tour as a US senator. He was actually taken off a flight for reasons related to his true identity. His false documents were an issue then as now. Come on Putin!
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Vincent Vane · Top Commenter · University of Maryland University College
@ Alex Where can I find information on this incident in Russia you speak of? I want to do everything I can to make his life hell. Just like he’s made mine and my fellow Americans.
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Jeanette McVicker · Top Commenter
google “ New START and Obama’s Mysterious Trip to Russia.”
Yes, that is a very interesting comment, isn’t it ?
I hate using google though.
If anyone googles the New START and Ovomit Myserious Trip to Russia” post it here please !
U.S. Senators Detained in Russia
Published August 28, 2005
Associated Press
A plane carrying two U.S. senators was detained for several hours Sunday while trying to leave Russia, before being permitted to leave the country for Ukraine, according to spokesmen for the lawmakers.
Sens. Richard Lugar (search), R-Ind., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Barack Obama (search), D-Ill., who had both been visiting storage sites for weapons of mass destruction, were held at an airport in the Ural Mountain city of Perm for several hours, but were allowed to leave after talks between U.S. and Russian officials.
“I am in Ukraine with Sen. Lugar,” Lugar’s spokesman, Andy Fisher, said in a message sent from a personal messaging device Sunday afternoon.
He said Russian officials refused to let the plane take off for three hours and insisted on boarding it. “They did not. The border patrol finally got orders to let us go,” Fisher said.
“We were treated just fine,” he said.
A spokesman for Obama also confirmed the plane’s arrival in Ukraine.
The senators and their aides spent three days in Russia visiting sites where warheads are stored before destruction under the U.S.-funded Comprehensive Threat Reduction program (search).
The spokesmen did not have information on the nature of the dispute that resulted in the senators’ being held. Telephone calls to the Russian border guard service and Foreign Ministry were not answered Sunday evening.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,167265,00.html#ixzz1okyGxuzB
That comment is, I think, something I read off the Volokh Conspiracy some time ago. Obama and another senator got held in a Russian airport after inspecting some Missile sites. I couldn’t get any more info on that. That trail dead ended. It was in some newspapers at the time. I seem to remember the NY Times did a piece on it. The senators got held for a few hours and then allowed to continue on their trip.