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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (7785)	10/29/2001 5:44:31 PM
From: Yaacov	Respond to of 23908

As you please!

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (7785)	10/30/2001 6:15:18 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

As I said, the US is merely used by the Russians as high-tech mercenaries against Central Asia's Muslim activism.... Monday October 29 4:32 PM ET Russia Rejects Moderate Taliban in Any Afghan Govt MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov ruled out Monday the participation of all members of Afghan's ruling Taliban movement, however moderate, in a future government in Kabul, Interfax news agency reported. Ivanov's assertion, after talks with his Spanish opposite number Josep Pique, was a restatement of Russia's refusal to have the fundamentalist Taliban included in any future administration. But it assumed greater emphasis given that Secretary of State Colin Powell suggested earlier this month that moderate elements of the movement -- but not its leaders -- could be brought into a future administration. Interfax quoted Ivanov as saying that the Taliban were responsible for ``crimes committed in Afghanistan and for the tragedy which the Afghan people are now suffering.'' ``We believe it is basically incorrect to divide the Taliban into moderate and less moderate,'' Interfax quoted him as saying. Russian troops pulled out of Afghanistan in 1989 after a failed 10-year Soviet intervention to prop up a pro-communist government in Kabul. Ivanov said there was no place in government for ``even the so-called 'moderate' Taliban'' and that this viewpoint was shared by ``the majority of world opinion.'' Russia, he said, ``sees no basis for believing that Russia could have any sort of contradiction on this issue with the United States.'' [...] dailynews.yahoo.com Indeed, we all see "no basis for believing that Russia could have any sort of contradiction on this issue with the United States.'' but what about a contradiction with Pakistan?? Are we in for a nuclear endgame between Russia and Pakistan? After all, NASA needs a suitable training ground for its next mission to Mars... Gus