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Re:CIA planned rendition operation to kidnap Edward Snowden by tezza on Sunday January 31, 2016 @06:34AM (#11006091)
? An ex KGB guy was assassinated in London with radioactive poison and lived to name the killers.

That ruffled the feathers until a few years later when it was all swept under the carpet.

Now the disagreement is over Ukraine and Syria. So Russia is in the bad books again for the killing

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Re:CIA planned rendition operation to kidnap Edward Snowden by junto on Sunday January 31, 2016 @07:57AM (#11006249)
The UK isn't a major superpower though. Russia sees the UK as the poodle of the United States, and although it loves it's poodle, poodles can easily be replaced. Putin was sending a very specific and threatening message to any Russian dissidents living in the UK. You aren't safe even if you thought you were. Shut up.
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Re:CIA planned rendition operation to kidnap Edward Snowden by jacobush on Sunday January 31, 2016 @09:12AM (#11006429)
Haha, best characterization - "loves its poodle, but"
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Re:CIA planned rendition operation to kidnap Edward Snowden by Pitarou on Sunday January 31, 2016 @08:40AM (#11006339)
Hardly swept under the carpet. It's an ongoing diplomatic headache. Just a couple of weeks ago, a public enquiry (which Litvinenko's widow had pushed for) publicly announced that Litvinenko was most probably murdered by the FSB with Putin's approval.
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