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Vladimir Putin's nuclear threat to the West
15/02/2008

Vladimir Putin has delivered perhaps his most menacing tirade against the West yet, repeating threats to train nuclear missiles on Europe and warning of unspecified retaliation if Kosovo declared independence.

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In a vintage performance, the former KGB spy laced almost five hours of invective with crude insults, threats and admonitions often expressed in the argot of the Russian street.

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Asked what had made him such a great leader, Mr Putin suggested that he had been anointed by God to make Russia a great state and boasted that he had made no mistakes during his eight years in power.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/15/wputin115.xml

715 posted on 02/16/2008 2:57:24 PM PST by Oorang (Tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people - Alex Kozinski)
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I've wondered what Mugneyah looked like post supposed plastic surgery. Now we know.

A child carries a poster of Emad Mughnieh during the funeral procession on Thursday.

http://www.gulfnews.com/region/Middle_East/10189973.html

716 posted on 02/16/2008 3:02:28 PM PST by Oorang (Tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people - Alex Kozinski)
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