Posted on 03/09/2019 11:31:21 PM PST by NorseViking
Russia's Foreign Ministry has said that "an object similar to an unarmed mortar shell" was confiscated from the baggage of a U.S. Embassy employee at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport on March 9, the Russian state news agency TASS reported.
The report said the object had a detonator but no explosives.
According to the TASS report, the Russian Foreign Ministry considered the incident "a provocation."
The incident comes at a time of tense relations between the two countries, aggravated last month by a U.S. decision to withdraw from a key Cold War-era nuclear-arms treaty amid accusations that Moscow had violated it.
In response, Moscow also suspended its participation in the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty and accused the United States of violating it.
"The U.S. Embassy was immediately informed about the incident," an unnamed Foreign Ministry source was quoted as saying.
The unidentified embassy employee was allowed to board a flight to New York after the object was confiscated.
The U.S. Embassy has not commented on the alleged incident.
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‘’ ‘’ It was a mine without explosives and still had a fuse. Dumbass. I worked with these people for eight long years and retired (stopped working before 55) immediately upon eligibility. I had 38 years of govt service, most or about 28 with DOD. If I had never became a member of our foreign service, I would still be working and happy with the people I worked with. When you work with lying self interested people who ALL THINK THEY ARE THE SMARTEST PERSON IN THE ROOM, it makes for a long day.’’ ‘’
I wonder what was his position.
If it wasn’t a government operation I guess the person in question might have had more troubles in JFK.
Was someone collecting items to be used in a false flag operation to later offer this as proof as found at the crime scene?
Is someone trying to start trouble?
We won’t know but the mortar shell as a souvenir in a checked luggage sounds like a dumbest idea one might imagine.
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