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ABC News: Vladimir Putin to head investigation into Polish president's death
ABC News (Australia) ^

Posted on 04/10/2010 5:49:28 AM PDT by quesney

Russia says Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will personally head the investigation into an aeroplane crash that killed Poland's president.

A total of 96 people were on board the plane that crashed near the western Russian city of Smolensk, all of whom are believed to be dead.

Polish president Lech Kaczynski was on board the Russian-built Tupolev 154 jet when it went down in heavy fog near a military airport.

Russian authorities have already said they suspect pilot error in the crash, near Smolensk, in Western Russia.

There are reports the jet made several attempted landings before the crash.

Also on board were leading members of Poland's political elite, including the army chief of staff and the governor of the central bank.

A scan of a list of 88 passengers aboard the plane published on a Polish government website showed the names of Poland's chief of staff, General Franciszek Gagor, and Major General Bronislaw, head of operational forces.

General Tadeusz Buk, head of land forces, air force commander Andrzej Blasik and special forces chief Wojciech Potasinki, as well as navy vice-admiral Andrzej Karweta, were also on the list.

They were part of an official delegation travelling to commemorate the massacre of thousands of Polish soldiers by soviet troops during the second world war.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Russia
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To: UriÂ’el-2012

Apparently the Polish President did not get along with Putin, but the Prime Minister Tusk (now acting Polish leader) and Putin are best buddies...


121 posted on 04/10/2010 7:37:52 AM PDT by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the chariot wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: UriÂ’el-2012

Apparently the Polish President did not get along with Putin, but the Prime Minister Tusk (now acting Polish leader) and Putin are best buddies...

Link for that info:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nucwf6DvpG4


122 posted on 04/10/2010 7:38:15 AM PDT by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the chariot wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: quesney

I imagine that will go about like our DOJ and the black panther voter intimidation case...


123 posted on 04/10/2010 7:38:33 AM PDT by Freddd (CNN is down to Three Hundred Thousand viewers. But they worked for it.)
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To: SmokingJoe

Something is not right with this whole picture. No government on the planet would put their entire leadership, top government officials and top military brass on one plane! Reports that several top politicians running for office were also on board.


124 posted on 04/10/2010 7:40:23 AM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: autumnraine

Me, too. And then I thought, you never know where something like this is coming from except that you’d never be able to predict it.


125 posted on 04/10/2010 7:41:32 AM PDT by Natural Born 54 (FUBO x 10)
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To: autumnraine
Apparently the Polish President did not get along with Putin, but the Prime Minister Tusk (now acting Polish leader) and Putin are best buddies...

Link for that info: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nucwf6DvpG4

Great insight.

126 posted on 04/10/2010 7:42:24 AM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
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To: lonevoice

“Also on board were leading members of Poland’s political elite, including the army chief of staff and the governor of the central bank. “

Prayers for Poland and the families of the deceased.


127 posted on 04/10/2010 7:42:37 AM PDT by Pride in the USA
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To: quesney

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128 posted on 04/10/2010 7:45:18 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: HD1200
Don't forget about the crackdown on those protesters at that TV station in Thailand.
129 posted on 04/10/2010 7:46:21 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist (There is no civility in the way the Communist/Marxist want to destroy the USA)
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To: quesney

Putin involvement is to ensure that it not discovered that Russia was involved.


130 posted on 04/10/2010 7:48:29 AM PDT by cranked
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To: Ostlandr
Maybe that’s exactly what they ( the powers that be ) want, a war in Europe, and in the Middle East at the same time, what a way to hurt all of the world’s economies. Might as well add in China invading Taiwan.
131 posted on 04/10/2010 7:50:51 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist (There is no civility in the way the Communist/Marxist want to destroy the USA)
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To: ohioWfan

The second thought that came to mind (after thought #1: this is no accident), was the memory of the assassination of the anti-Taliban leader in Afghanistan just before the Al-Queda attack on us in September 2001.

Putin is flexing his muscles quite openly.

Quick reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Shah_Massoud
On September 9, 2001, two days before the September 11 attacks in the United States, Massoud was assassinated in Takhar Province of Afghanistan by suspected al-Qaeda agents. The following year, he was named “National Hero” by the order of Afghan President Hamid Karzai. The date of his death, September 9, is observed as a national holiday in Afghanistan, known as “Massoud Day.”[2] The year following his assassination, in 2002, Massoud was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.[3]


132 posted on 04/10/2010 7:56:38 AM PDT by maica (Freedom consists not in doing what we like,but in having the right to do what we ought. John Paul II)
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To: FReepaholic
Let's connect to dots...
Last year, they take away Poland's nuclear shield, then, there is the recent signing of the nuclear pact with guess who ???? Russia.... and now this ....
Perhaps, we will be hearing news soon of China flexing it's muscles, and there is nothing the USA can do about it...
I war in Europe, because Russia will see a weak Poland, and Iran threatening to hit targets in Europe with their Iran missiles, and a war in the Middle East......
Yeah, World War III coming soon....
133 posted on 04/10/2010 8:00:00 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist (There is no civility in the way the Communist/Marxist want to destroy the USA)
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To: penelopesire
Thanks for the pings.

No government on the planet would put their entire leadership, top government officials and top military brass on one plane! Reports that several top politicians running for office were also on board.

It should never happen again.

134 posted on 04/10/2010 8:05:34 AM PDT by spectre ( Spectre's wife)
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To: American Constitutionalist

American and European leftist commies hate Poland going all the way back to Reagan,Thatcher and Walesa. This current President of Poland was in the same mold as Walesa and they hated him for it. Obama probably hated him too.

Walesa’s Warning:

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=519897


135 posted on 04/10/2010 8:06:16 AM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: quesney

Mr. Fox, may I show you to your new henhouse?


136 posted on 04/10/2010 8:08:15 AM PDT by Hoosier-Daddy ( "It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
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To: AlanD
"Even Putin isn’t that brazen to kill the Polish President in his own backyard. Give the guy some credit."

I give Putin credit for being precisely that brazen. Say what you will about the guy, he's got a set the size of coconuts.

137 posted on 04/10/2010 8:08:24 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: ronnie raygun

The question is; how will the Kenyan benefit from this?


138 posted on 04/10/2010 8:08:59 AM PDT by roses of sharon (I can do all things through Him who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13)
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To: quesney

SO, people were already poo-pooing the “conspiracy theory” that the Russians might be involved in this somehow — THEN I see that Putin will personally head the investigation?!

Lemme see....Dead, poisoned former KGB spies; a poisoned Ukrainian President; a WAR against Georgia; resuming surveillance flights over the West, esp. around the United States; Selling weapons to Venezeula — maybe nuke technology; selling IRAN nuke technology; intimidation of POLAND and the Czech Republic regarding a US missile shield...and NOW Putin wants to PERSONALLY head the investigation?!

No, no reason at ALL to be suspicious of this totally, COMPLETELY random, tragic, accidental plane crash IN Russia... Geez!


139 posted on 04/10/2010 8:10:04 AM PDT by patriot preacher (To be a good American Citizen and a Christian IS NOT a contradiction. (www.mygration.blogspot.com))
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To: penelopesire

What’s Russia’s main target ? Germany ? and why ?


140 posted on 04/10/2010 8:11:03 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist (There is no civility in the way the Communist/Marxist want to destroy the USA)
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