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To: sea_urchin who wrote (22640)	3/14/2005 4:15:20 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 81101

Re: The Russians did indicate, though, that they thought than an American torpedo had done it all... Of course, such a cheap theory nicely suits the Russkies... but I don't buy it. There's only one thing to bear in mind about the Kursk incident --it's the Kremlin's slouchiness to rescue the 118 crew after the Kursk sunk to the ocean floor. Most rescue experts from Sweden, the Netherlands, the US, the UK,... agree to claim that, had the Russian admiralty be more speedy in the hours following the Kursk mayday, it would have been possible to rescue at least some of the crew. Yet, that didn't fit Putin's plan to cover up what was likely a grave, treason-like incident. Remember that the Kursk was a SLBM sub, that is, part of Russia's NUCLEAR deterrence. Hence we are not just dealing with some technical screwup --what's at stake was the very CREDIBILITY of Russia's nuclear forces. And the best way not to impair it was to write off survivors.... No survivor, no witness, no whistleblower, no scrape. Gus