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To: Bill who wrote (490831)	6/13/2012 1:46:44 PM
From: Brian Sullivan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793955

Another foreign policy disaster... I thought diplomats worked on stuff "behind the scenes", not in out in public. Clinton accuses Russia of selling attack helicopters to Syria Washington Post The Obama administration on Tuesday accused Russia of planning to supply new attack helicopters to Syria, a move that U.S. officials warned would dramatically escalate the crisis and belie Moscow’s claim that it is not supporting President Bashar al-Assad’s violent crackdown on dissent. Russia, a longtime ally and supplier of arms to the Syrian government, has acknowledged that it is continuing to honor contractual military shipments to Damascus, while stressing that it is not providing weapons that could be used against opponents of the government. But in an unusually direct rebuke, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday dismissed such assertions as “patently untrue.” washingtonpost.com