Litvinenko’s former chief characterized Litvinenko as a “typical traitor”
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posted by zaina19 on February, 2007 as ANALYSIS / OPINION
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 2/10/2007 1:33 AM
Litvinenko’s former chief characterized Litvinenko as a “typical traitor”
Alexander Gusak, Alexander Litvinenko’s former chief in the Russian Federal Security Service (former KGB) confessed in an interview to BBC that one of agents, who was betrayed by the ex-officer, addressed him with a proposal to kill his curator. Gusak characterizes Litvinenko as a “typical traitor.”
Gusak informed that secret agents came to him, who were concerned that their names could be disclosed to special services thanks to Litvinenko.
"One of them (disclosed agents) did tell me: “You know, he has done so much, do you want me to kill him?” Gusak said. At the same time, he noted that he was not going to insist that Litvinenko was killed by the same agent.
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Putin's speech: Back to cold war?
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 2/11/2007 1:05 AM BBC NEWS Putin's speech: Back to cold war? By Rob Watson BBC defence and security correspondent, Munich The Munich security conference was born in the 1960s - the height of the Cold War. Forty years on, there been talk of a new chill. Given the tone and content of Russian President Vladimir Putin's address to the gathered defence ministers, parliamentarians and pundits, it is not, perhaps, hard to see why. Warming quickly to his task after only the briefest of greetings, President Putin accused the US of establishing, or trying to establish, a "uni-polar" world. "What is a uni-polar world? No matter how we beautify this term, it means one single centre of power, one single centre of force and one single master," he said. 'Formula for disaster' President Putin continued in a similar vein for some time. In today's multi-polar world, there is no place for needless confrontation US Senator John McCain "The United States has overstepped its borders in all spheres - economic, political and humanitarian, ... >> full
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Gates rebukes Putin 'cold war' talk
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 2/11/2007 2:24 PM Gates rebukes Putin 'cold war' talk Publication time: Today at 01:13 Djokhar time Robert Gates, the US secretary of defence, has dismissed anti-US remarks made recently by Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, as "old spy business". On Saturday Putin had criticised the US for what he said was an attempt to force its will on the rest of the world and incite a new global arms race. Gates said to a Munich security policy conference on Sunday: "Many of you have backgrounds in diplomacy or politics. "I have, like your second speaker yesterday [Putin], a starkly different background - a career in the spy business. And, I guess, old spies have a habit of blunt speaking." The former US intelligence director said: "We all face many common problems and challenges that must be addressed in partnership with other countries, including Russia." He went onto say he had accepted an invitation from Putin - a former employee of the KGB during the Soviet era - ... >> full
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Gates Responds to Putin's Tough Talk
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 2/12/2007 12:17 AM Updated:2007-02-11 21:03:56 Gates Responds to Putin's Tough Talk By LOLITA C. BALDOR AP MUNICH, Germany (Feb. 11) - Pentagon chief Robert Gates responded Sunday to Vladimir Putin's assault on U.S. foreign policy by saying "one Cold War is enough" and that he would go to Moscow to try to reduce tensions. Gates also sought more allied help in Afghanistan . Russian President Vladimir Putin looks on as Robert Gates delivers his first speech as Pentagon chief. Frank Augstein, AP Russian President Vladimir Putin , left, watches as new Pentagon head Robert Gates delivers a speech in which he responds to Putin's criticism of U.S. foreign policy. Talk About It: Post Thoughts He delivered his first speech as Pentagon chief at a security conference in Germany and then flew to Pakistan to discuss fears of a renewed spring offensive by Taliban fighters in neighboring Afghanistan. Pakistan, a close U.S. ally in the fight against terrorism, has faced charges that the Taliban militia stage attacks from Pakistan against Afghan ... >> full
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Putin: the louse that roared
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 2/15/2007 8:09 AM Putin: the louse that roared Publication time: 14 February 2007, 19:00 The Russian president should examine his own anti-democratic belligerence before beating the drum to feed his country's Soviet nostalgia. THE AMERICAN delegates to last weekend's Munich Conference on Security Policy, an annual transatlantic gathering of policymakers and defense experts, were not predisposed to embrace Vladimir Putin after we learned that the Russian president's entourage had booked more than 100 rooms in the conference hotel, the stately Bayerischer Hof, relegating most of us to a ho-hum Hilton in the hinterlands. (It could have been worse. As one journalist joked, if President Bush had been in attendance, the White House would have taken so many rooms that we would have been commuting from Lichtenstein.) Putin's speech did not win over anyone either. Sounding as if he had stepped out of a Cold War time warp, he accused the U.S. and NATO of threatening his country. With its "hyper-use of force ... " ... >> full
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