Where's the outcry over the forged passports used by the Russians?
Merrill Yourish points out that the group of Russian spies arrested in the US on Monday used forged and stolen passports.Criminal complaints filed in Federal District Court in Manhattan on Monday read like an old-fashioned cold war thriller: Spies swapping identical orange bags as they brushed past one another in a train station stairway. An identity borrowed from a dead Canadian, forged passports, messages sent by shortwave burst transmission or in invisible ink. A money cache buried for years in a field in upstate New York.Don't hold your breath waiting for any Russian diplomats to be expelled by England, Australia or Ireland, nor for any Russians to be arrested by Poland or extradited to Germany.
After all, no one cared that Mahmoud al-Mabhouh had a stolen passport or two either.
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posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 8:08 AM
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The Jews can be pushed around. No one is going to push Russia around.
So yes, there's international hypocrisy and this incident, unlike with Israel, is going to be overlooked and promptly forgotten.
It get's even better. In Canada, the leader of the NDP (lefties) was railing at Stephen Harper yesterday because the Russians had used several stolen Canadian identities to establish themselves in the US. Funny, but I don't remember him railing against Germany, the UK or Ireland for allowing false passports to be produced and used by others...
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