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To: carranza2 who wrote (117161)	10/18/2003 8:50:30 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 281500

RUSSIAN LEADER TARGETED Two men have been arrested in London over a plot to assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Russian nationals, said to be renegade intelligence officers, were planning to have Mr Putin shot while on a foreign trip, according to the Sunday Times. Scotland Yard confirmed that two Russian men had been held and questioned by anti-terrorist officers in London over a five-day period. A spokesman said: "Two men aged 40 and 36 were arrested by officers from SO13 (the anti-terrorist branch) on October 12 following allegations of offences under the Terrorism Act 2000." She added that the men were released on Friday without further action. But she refused to confirm reports that this was on condition they returned to Russia. SO13 was alerted when they received a detailed legal statement from a former intelligence officer in Russia's FSB, the main successor organisation to the KGB. The informant alleged that the two arrested men were trying to engage Russian exiles in Britain in the conspiracy to kill Mr Putin. One of the suspects, reported to be a former KGB major, gave details of the plot to the informant in a phone call to him, the newspaper claimed. But the informant feared that attempts were being made to set him up by implicating him in the plot and reported the incident immediately. Last Updated: 23:58 UK, Saturday October 18, 2003 sky.com

To: carranza2 who wrote (117161)	10/19/2003 3:48:24 AM
From: smolejv@gmx.net	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

I read the text with the same mixed feelings. One thing, however, struck a cautious note - before I jumped for Elders of Zion etc - and that's the immediate intended audience. The umma and the Prophet were mentioned in every second sentence at least. It looked to me like some kind of borrowed-interest approach to capture the audience - away from the alternative of the virulent, aggressive terrorism, that also tells everybody, God's is on its right and the Prophet on its left-hand side. This hidden fight for minds of 1.3B potential listeners could (and I mean could) also imply the use of "self-evident truths" - whatever the speaker really believes to be the truth[]. btw, I was in ME only once - for a few days in Kuweit. The Friday night transmission from the Great Mosque of Mecca was an eye opener - there's much I did not and dont know - I just assume, but that's the same thing. Applies in my case also to Palestine and a lot of other subjects (why not be self-critical now and then;)... RegZ dj [ - edit] - hypothetical - for facts check Message 19414695