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To: unclewest who wrote (358777)	4/10/2010 5:30:00 AM
From: KLP	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793955

Polish President, Wife Among 132 Killed in Russia Plane Crash - AP - April 10, 2010 AP Polish leader Lech Kaczynski and his wife died Saturday along with 130 others when their plane crashed while coming in for a landing in western Russia, officials said. MOSCOW - Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife died Saturday along with 130 others when their plane crashed while coming in for a landing in western Russia, officials said. The governor of the Smolensk region, where the crash took place about 11 a.m. (0700 GMT), said no one survived. "The Polish presidential plane did not make it to the runway while landing. Tentative findings indicate that it hit the treetops and fell apart," Sergei Anufriev said on state news channel Rossiya-24. "Nobody has survived the disaster." The Polish foreign ministry confirmed that Kaczynski and his wife were aboard the plane. The head of Russia's top investigative body, Sergei Markin, said there were a total of 132 people on the plane, a Tu-154. Kaczynski was flying to Russia for events marking the 70th anniversary of the massacre of thousands of Polish officers by Soviet secret police in Katyn and elsewhere during World War II. The presidential plane was a Soviet-built Tupolev TU154M, at least 20 years old. The Army chief of staff, Gen. Franciszek Gagor, National Bank President Slawomir Skrzypek and Deputy Foreign Minister Andrzej Kremoer were on the passenger list. In Warsaw, Prime Minister Donald Tusk called an extraordinary meeting of his Cabinet. Kaczynski, 60, became president in December 2005 after defeating Tusk in that year's presidential vote. The nationalist conservative was the twin brother of Poland's opposition leader, former Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski. Kaczynski had said he would seek a second term in presidential elections this fall. He was expected to face an uphill struggle against Parliament speaker Bronislaw Komorowski, the candidate of Tusk's governing Civic Platform party. According to the constitution, Komorowski would take over presidential duties. Kaczynski's wife, Maria, was an economist. They had a daughter, Marta, and two granddaughters.

To: unclewest who wrote (358777)	4/10/2010 5:32:26 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793955

American Hikers Jailed in Iran My reaction was, "how could you be that dumb to hike there?" During our initial take down of Afghanistan, a Church group was demanding that we stop the war and rescue some Christian Missionaries they had sent there from prison. What the hell were they doing sending those people into a Salifi environment that believed any Muslim who converted should be killed, and the same done to the Christians?