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| High-Ranking Russian Officer Shot to Death |
| 2004-11-01 |
| A high-ranking Russian air force officer was shot and killed on a road in western Russia on Sunday, a police official said. Maj.-Gen. Konstantin Dementyev, deputy commander of the air force's strategic aviation division, and his driver died after their car was strafed by automatic weapons fire, the Interfax-Military News Agency reported. A second passenger was injured and hospitalized, it said. A duty officer in the police department of the Smolensk region, 250 miles west of Moscow, confirmed the report but declined to give any details of the killing other than the site: near the village of Arkhipovka on the main highway linking the Russian capital with the Belarusian capital, Minsk. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 smn---my thoughts that I have been posting. What the hell is Putin up to w/r/t the Beslin killings? When Bush was faced with 9-11 he said that he would commit to acting and attack OBL and co. He asked for our patience while he worked up a plan and set the forces and support network in motion. I wonder if we will see anything. If putin is planning, he sure is not having any leaks, IMHO. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-11-01 11:52:55 PM |
| #1 If Putin will do nothing after more than 400 kids are killed in Beslan... one Maj-Gen won't rank a damn. He will find a way to blame the WEST, as usual! |
| Posted by: smn 2004-11-01 11:23:45 PM |