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To: Red Steel

So Canada knows then. I wonder who else does.


43 posted on 11/08/2009 8:07:24 PM PST by ClayinVA ("Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it")
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To: ClayinVA

Maybe Bibi.


44 posted on 11/08/2009 8:09:10 PM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: ClayinVA

Everybody. The whole world.


49 posted on 11/08/2009 8:15:16 PM PST by Nipfan (The desire to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it - H L Mencken)
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To: ClayinVA; hoosiermama

“So Canada knows then. I wonder who else does.”

http://blog.kievukraine.info/2005/08/obama-part-of-group-locked-up-at.html

Obama part of group locked up at Russian airport // U.S. delegation stripped of passports as guards demand to inspect plane
Chicago Sun-Times (IL) - Monday, August 29, 2005
Author: Lynn Sweet, Sun-Times Washington Bureau chi

WASHINGTON — Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) were not allowed to leave a Russian airport Sunday and were locked in a room briefly.

The incident prevented their departure for about three hours, but Obama told the Sun-Times “it ended up not being a very big deal.”

The senators had their passports seized by local officials at an airport in Perm. Obama said the officials demanded, unsuccessfully, to inspect the DC-9 military aircraft being used by the congressional delegation for the trip.

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Although he was on a first-time diplomatic mission, Obama has traveled extensively, spending part of his youth in Indonesia and visiting Kenya, where his father was born. He noted that as a back- packing college student he had “a lot less leverage than this time.”

Obama , a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, and Lugar, its chairman, left Wednesday for a trip to inspect sites where nuclear and biological weapons are slated to be destroyed in Russia, Ukraine and Azerbaijan. On Sunday, the U.S. group was scheduled to fly from Perm to Kiev, Ukraine. But border guards wanted proof that the group’s aircraft — which Obama said looked like a “mini-Air Force One” — was really an official U.S. government plane, which would be exempt from an inspection.

Robert Gibbs, Obama ‘s spokesman traveling with him, said in an e-mail that “the border guards took our passports and demanded to inspect our aircraft, which we refused. We were moved to a room to wait.”

“At one point they were demanding to inspect virtually everything, including the gifts their representatives at the missile facility had given us.” The border guard said “they were acting on the authority of the FSB,” the Russian intelligence agency.

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65 posted on 11/09/2009 1:57:15 AM PST by maggief
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To: ClayinVA

Who else knows? All your allies, and all your enemies.


69 posted on 11/09/2009 5:37:28 AM PST by Former Proud Canadian (How do I change my screen name now that we have the most conservative government in the world?)
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