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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (591)	7/19/2002 4:15:25 PM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3959

One more time..Most of the Arabs in the "holy Land" are immigrants...many from the very same countries `as Jews...The story about Koran and Jerusalem are far less `convincing than Adam and Eve story

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (591)	7/20/2002 6:14:43 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 3959

Russia urges UK to question exiled security service agent From Robert Cottrell in Moscow Published: July 20 2002 5:00 \| Last Updated: July 20 2002 Russia's Federal Security Service, the FSB, said yesterday it wanted its "British partners" to "arrange and conduct questioning" of Alexander Litvinenko, an FSB lieutenant-colonel who sought political asylum in Britain in 2000. Mr Litvinenko has accused the FSB, successor to the Soviet-era KGB, of complicity in a series of terrorist bombings that killed about 200 people in Russia in 1999. In turn, the FSB has accused Mr Litvinenko of several criminal offences. Last month a military court sentenced him to 3 years' imprisonment after trying him in absentia. The FSB's request to have Mr Litvinenko questioned follows his claim on Thursday to have located and received information from Achimez Gochiyayev, the man named by the FSB as chief suspect in the bombings case. The FSB has been hunting Mr Gochiyayev for two years, describing him as the leader of a Chechen terrorist band. Mr Litvinenko told Russian television on Thursday that Mr Gochiyayev had "explained in detail what had happened in Moscow", where the worst bombings took place. He declined to say whether he and Mr Gochiyayev had met personally, or whether the information had been relayed to him by other means. Mr Litvinenko told Russian radio yesterday that he did not want to give his information to the FSB, because he viewed the FSB as an "interested party". It "destroys evidence", he said. Yesterday he said he would "take advice from [his] lawyer" if British security services tried to question him in response to the FSB's request. Apart from distrusting the FSB, he said, he was "a former officer in the Russian special services", and as such it would be "improper with respect to Russia if I were to be in contact with the British special services". Instead, he said, he wanted to give information to a Russian "public commission" headed by two liberal parliamentarians, Sergei Kovalev and Sergei Yushenkov, which is trying to shed light on the bombings. He hoped to address the group by videolink when it met in Moscow on July 25, he said. Mr Litvinenko fled Russia after claiming the FSB ordered him to kill Boris Berezovsky, a prominent Russian tycoon. He is said now to be close to Mr Berezovsky, who has become a vocal critic of President Vladimir Putin and who also lives mainly in London. Mr Berezovsky has accused the FSB of organising the 1999 bombings to create a climate of fear and so help Mr Putin, an ex-KGB officer, win the presidency. news.ft.com