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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (10003)	4/8/2003 3:02:41 PM
From: matthew (Hijacked)	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

This could easily escalate to a much larger war involving more countries (and not just Middle-Eastern states). I guess this is maybe what they meant when they spoke of A New World Order.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (10003)	4/8/2003 3:18:44 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

can you provide a link that gives some evidence that it was the U.S. that attacked the Russian convoy?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (10003)	4/8/2003 3:31:35 PM
From: eims2000	Respond to of 21614

No Lizzie, it was determined that the Iraqis deliberately took the wrong route. It also appears that the Russians are accepting that theory. Fortunately they were there to witness it.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (10003)	4/8/2003 3:45:17 PM
From: Bald Eagle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

U.S. says Russian convoy off-route By CNN Moscow Bureau Chief Jill Dougherty Tuesday, April 8, 2003 Posted: 1:05 PM EDT (1705 GMT) MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) -- The U.S. ambassador to Russia has denied claims by Russia's ambassador to Iraq that U.S. forces deliberately fired on a convoy of diplomats and journalists in Iraq and says the convoy deviated from an agreed-upon route. U.S. Ambassador to Russia Alexander Vershbow, in a radio interview Tuesday, said the United States "fully rejects" accusations by Russian ambassador Vladimir Titorenko that U.S. military fired on the convoy intentionally. The Russian ambassador was heading up the convoy on Sunday when it was struck with gunfire and shelling, wounding five people. The U.S. State Department said an investigation is under way. "This is a matter of extreme seriousness," State Department deputy spokesman Philip Reeker said in a written statement. "The sanctity of diplomatic personages is very important to us as well as the international community and must be upheld. No determination has yet been made as to precisely what happened or whose forces were involved. We are trying to establish these facts." He said the Russian government would be kept informed about the investigation. Vershbow said that although it is still unclear who fired on the group, it is now clear that the convoy deviated from a route out of Baghdad that was coordinated with the U.S. military. "It is already apparent that the Russian ambassador may have decided, for reasons we don't know, to take a different route from the one we recommended and instead to follow the advice of the Iraqis," Vershbow said. "We did everything we could to minimize the risk for this convoy, while recognizing that it was going to pass through areas that were not under total control by American forces." In the initial departure from Baghdad, the U.S. ambassador said, "there was a shift in route, perhaps because of some firefights ahead of the column, we don't know fully the reasons, but it did seem to deviate from the prescribed route." Members of the convoy, meanwhile, are returning home to Moscow from Damascus, Syria. A Russian emergency ministries plane staffed with medical personnel and equipment, left Damascus at 3:37 pm Moscow time Tuesday. It was expected to arrive at a military airport near Moscow at 8:30 pm. The Russian ambassador's driver, who was more seriously injured, remains in a hospital in the Iraqi town of Feluja, accompanied by one other member of the embassy, and options for returning them to Moscow are under discussion. The Iraqi ambassador to Russia, meanwhile, says Baghdad will not give Moscow any official explanation of the incident. Abbas Khalaf is quoted by Interfax news agency as saying that Moscow should "draw its own conclusion" from the accusations that the Russian ambassador leveled against the United States. "There were no Iraqi troops in the area where the incident took place," he said.