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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Horgad who wrote (107442)	9/5/2014 4:52:07 PM
From: 3bar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219175

Seems to me that history shows that war was common even before the added impetus of $ . As Pogo seen the enemy is Human Nature ?

To: Horgad who wrote (107442)	9/5/2014 8:21:51 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Respond to of 219175

Estonian Officer Abducted Near Border With Russia -- Update -( seems a new front is opening) 05-Sep-2014 By Liis Kangsepp And Juhana Rossi TALLINN, Estonia--The apparent abduction and detention of an Estonian security officer raised tensions between Estonia and Russia just two days after President Barack Obama came to the country and vowed to defend it as a NATO member. Estonia's Internal Security Service, known as KAPO, said its officer Eston Kohver was "illegally detained" at gunpoint early Friday while on duty in southeastern Estonia. It said his abductors had come from Russia and had jammed radio communications and used a smoke grenade in the incident. "It is unacceptable that people who have crossed the Estonian border kidnap an Estonian citizen from Estonian territory," President Toomas Hendrik Ilves tweeted on Friday. "I expect the case to be solved quickly." Russia's Federal Security Service, or FSB, said Mr. Kohver had been detained on Russian territory as part of a counter-espionage operation. The Interfax news agency quoted the FSB as saying he was carrying a Taurus pistol, 5,000 euros, hidden-recording equipment and a document "that appeared to be an espionage assignment." KAPO said Mr. Kohver, who was tasked with preventing cross-border criminal activity and the flow of contraband, has been decorated for unspecified services to Estonia. The director general of KAPO, Arnold Sinisalu, told journalists in the Estonian capital that there were footprints coming from Russia and going back to Russia at the crime scene. He said there hadn't been any similar incidents since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. KAPO spokesman Harrys Puusepp said Estonian and Russian border guards had written a joint account of the incident stating that the border was violated from Russia to Estonia, "not vice versa," and that "in the course of this border violation, a citizen of the Estonian Republic went missing." The Estonian Foreign Ministry summoned the Russian ambassador to Estonia Yuri Merzlyakov, seeking an explanation. "This is a very disturbing incident," Foreign Minister Urmas Paet said. "We expect to receive the help and cooperation necessary from Russia in solving this case and bringing the Estonian citizen back to Estonia." The incident comes just two days after U.S. President Barack Obama visited Estonia to reassure the Baltic nation that its status as a NATO member would assure its border security. Mr. Obama said he came "to reaffirm the commitment of the United States to the security of Estonia," and proposed an air base in the country as "an ideal location" for hosting a reinforced American military presence in the Baltic region. Marko Mihkelson, head of the Estonian Parliament's foreign affairs committee, told local media Friday's incident was "a special operation run by our neighboring country's intelligence service," calling it "a serious provocation against the sovereignty of the Estonian state." The FSB could not be reached for comment. Urmas Reinsalu, a former Estonian defense minister, told local media that the detention of the KAPO officer amounted to an attempt by Russia to demonstrate to the West "that we can do whatever we want in this corner of the world, and Obama's words have no collateral." "I believe there is a reason why this happened on the same day as the NATO summit," Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius told a local news agency BNS. "It is an arrogant provocation." Some residents of the Baltic countries have grown nervous after the recent annexation by Russia of the Ukrainian region of Crimea and incursions by Russian troops into eastern Ukraine. Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia were occupied by the Soviet Union until 1991 and joined NATO 10 years ago. Greg White in Moscow contributed to this article. Write to Juhana Rossi at juhana.rossi@wsj.com Subscribe to WSJ: online.wsj.com?mod=djnwires