the yukos affair was part of a plan to control the crude oil market by Russia and its communist satellites and benefit financially from instablity it fomented in the mideast and perhaps put the civilized world in an economic headlock.
4 posted on 09/18/2006 11:12:59 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand
("It's only pain, darling.")
Putin and his Russian KGB henchmen are cognizant crude oil and natural gas is the lifeline Europe requires and this new Kremlin mob means to hold as many Western nations hostage via energy, while Moscow arms it's Islamic and communist proxies to continue where the so-called 'former' Soviet Union left off. Nothing has changed, only the suits and deception.
All tyrants fall sooner or later
6 posted on 09/18/2006 12:16:40 PM PDT by M. Espinola
(Freedom is not free)