Posted on 04/10/2010 7:42:33 AM PDT by lizol
It was a plane crash of the Rwandan President that triggered the Rwandan Genocide in 1994.
No shelters that I recall. Water table too close to the surface for any meaningful underground constriction.
Just duck and cover. Your school desk will protect you from an atom bomb.
Never thought to question that...
Crash? Wasn’t there a SAM involved?
Heavy fog, small airport, no elctronic landing aids, pilot disregards instructions to fly to better airport, makes four landing attempts, everyone dies including the pilot .....................yes, it has EVERY mark of a well-planned assasination.
RUN FOR THE HILLS! With an enemy having such farreaching capabilities we don’t stand a chance.
Truth is; most likely, we will never know. . .
Obama was never raised in an atmosphere of baseball, apple pies and Chevrolets. “Anti-American” was a term I became familiar with as a child. That word was used with Indonesia, Africa and the USSR.
I'm very much afraid that as a result, or as an adjunct, of this event, they will endure with a much closer 'relationship' with Russia, without a US missile shield, and with much reduced US involvement in general.
Whatever the actual cause of this crash might be it does create the possibility of a complete turn around from recent relationships.
(And, the former spook in me would (a) bet on it, and (b) be watching for similar changes in other former satellites)
I don’t know about that. However, I got curious about the “Katyn Forest” situation, and looked it up. Apparently, there was some sort of mass-grave there! There was some kind of monument put up there to commemorate those who died there. It was one of those memorial sites kind of like the Custer battle sites, or Gettysburg monument here.
Upon reading an article on Katyn Forest a few minutes ago, they (Soviets)did deny it until about 1990. They finally did acknowledge it happened. Even the Nazi forces discovered in 1943 what they believed to be mass graves there. Apparently, there were a large number of Polish military forces killed and buried there, along with many other civilian people. Many of them were taken as prisoners of war, and kept in POW camps.
>> Despite its new found oil wealth the USSR is still a Third World country?
Hate to break it to you but USSR ceased to exist in 1991.
Do you think the Georgians would agree with you? How about the Ukrainians?
I suppose that that's possible.But I think it's just as possible that it would draw them closer to the EU...which wouldn't be very good either.
>> Do you think the Georgians would agree with you? How about
>> the Ukrainians?
I was actually born in the Ukraine so I happen to know a few things about what Ukrainians think :)
But to call today’s Russia USSR shows you are unfamiliar with what it was like at all. The command economy is dead. The Soviet welfare state is dead. The Soviet marxist-leninist dogma is not being preached or indoctrinated. There is open international travel, availability of the Internet (which would have been unthinkable during Soviet times) and private ownership and accumulation of wealth are allowed.
Many things have changed.
But, having said that, Russia can be imperialistic with or without the Communist ideology. Russia originally annexed Georgia when it was ruled by the Czars.
No, he was a Serb.
As much as these things are fairly well sanitized in our media, I was somewhat taken aback to see the Russians allowed photos of the caskets piled in the back of a truck.
Do you know when the bodies will return home?
Thank you for keeping us up to date. God bless you and God bless Poland.
Mmmm...I am bookmarking your homepage because I think you may have some interesting perspective during times such as this.
:-)
The first conspirator on the route to see the royal car was Muhamed Mehmedbasic. Standing by the Austro-Hungarian Bank, Mehmedbasic lost his nerve and allowed the car pass without taking action. Mehmedbasic later said that a policeman was standing behind him and feared he would be arrested before he had a chance to throw his bomb.
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