One more time — Wrangell Island has been Russian territory since before WWI, and was named after a German-Russian noble born in the late 18th century. The Russian claim has never been seriously disputed.
Ping to all lists.
This bogus story about the turning over of Wrangel island was posted on FR back in 2000 — seriously, before Obama was done with his last line of coke or his last homosexual affair, and before he stopped claiming to have been born in Kenya.
Quietly, State Dept. Turns Over American Islands to Russia, Others
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/927764/posts
To add to the confusion, there actually IS an island in Alaska called Wrangel Island:
(thanks Monkey Face)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2979827/posts?page=8#8
You mean this story is factually in error?!?
But ... but ... blogs. New Media. Gateway Pundit!
(I’ll be over in the corner quietly trembling while my world view collapses.)
Wrangell island is in Alaska. Wrangell island is the Arctic Ocean and is Russian.