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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: aladin who wrote (55071)10/28/2002 9:20:29 AM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (5) of 281500
 
Putin may not survive public opinion - but it was the right thing to do.

John, I suspect it's a bit early to pronounce it the right thing. We don't yet know what the gas was, why, as I read this morning, 117 hostages died in the last attack, 116 of them from "poison gas". Perhaps it will turn out as you say, perhaps it will be a genuinely debatable outcome, perhaps it will wind up looking much worse.

I find it strange that (a) the Russian government, as I type, has still not released the name of the gas to the American govt, and (b) they kept families of the hostages out of the hospital.

Do you know why any of that has happened?
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