so after terrorists massacre 300+ schoolchildren, the dutch foreign minister demands an explanation from putin for why it happened. :s
wow. how’s that for rubbing salt in the wound?
or not
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3628692.stm
[quote]That sentence has now been deleted from the official statement after a furious response from Russia.
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But Mr Bot said there had been a misunderstanding and he would personally phone his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov to explain what he had meant.
He said he just did not have enough information about what exactly had happened in the school in Beslan and so declined to comment on the way the Russian authorities had handled the crisis. [/quote]
Doesn’t seem he was demanding anything.
so he made the statement, but because the russians were pissed off he went back and deleted it from all records.
it’s nice when you can rewrite history like that.
[quote=“Flipper”]so he made the statement, but because the russians were pissed off he went back and deleted it from all records.[/quote]Indeed.
If it was an airport which is supposed to have high security you could understand why he said that, but how can you protect every school in the country from 20 armed terrorists ?
boy were they right to be pissed!
For explanations, consult Tolstoy’s “Hajji Murat”, “Prisoner of the Caucasus”, etc. Neither side’s personality has changed much over the last couple hundred years.