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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (7523)	3/5/2004 4:06:36 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

Re: OTOH, your speculation that Putin was involved in Massoud's assassination by an Arab film crew strikes me as being too far-fetched to accept. LOL... But just look at the map! What are we talking about, Ray? Are we talking about some banana republic in Latin America? Are we speculating over some African wasteland? No, we are dealing with Central Asia, we are discussing of a crucial geopolitical area for Russia. Actually, the mere fact that US (and European) mass media have completely overlooked Russia's role in the Afghan crisis should be enough for any observer to smell a rat.... Massoud was a Tajik warlord who resisted the Soviet occupation for 20 years before switching sides. Russia still maintains about 20,000 troops in Tajikistan, a mere Russian satellite headed by a former KGB stooge. In other words, Massoud was a key chessman on the Central Asian chessboard --a chessman only Russia/Putin had the power to remove. Oh, I know that US spinmeisters try and fancy that Putin is just a cash-strapped puppet... Russia ain't the military juggernaut it used to be anymore... That's correct but the fact remains that Afghanistan is not Angola, as far as Russia is concerned --hell, it's not even Yugoslavia. If anything, Afghanistan is a thorn that stings Russia's heart --nobody's gonna mess around in that region without Putin's nod. So, to claim that diehard Massoud was bombed out of the equation by two Tunisian underlings is as silly as to claim that the Lebanese president could be killed without the consent of Syria or that the Mexican head of state could be assassinated without the complicity of the US.... Gus