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Title: The hot news in the UK
Post by: Idoru on December 05, 2006, 06:29:53 pm
BBC News Article (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6179074.stm)

So, this is a news story that seems to be running for a while in the UK. It has major implications for diplomatic relations between the UK and Russia.

Have a read and then post your reactions please, click the links on the right of the website to get more info on this story that the tabloid 'news' papers love.
Title: Re: The hot news in the UK
Post by: Parallo on December 05, 2006, 06:42:22 pm
Its the hot news here in Ireland too. I don't know what to make of it. Its on too big a scale for me to even attemt to fathom the implications.
Title: Re: The hot news in the UK
Post by: Xordan on December 05, 2006, 07:17:09 pm
I find it a bit unlikely that the Russian leadership is behind it like is being suggested. More likely some subordinate or a Mafia group, or even someone totally different. It's really hard to tell. Other than it being a sick way to murder someone, I don't have much of an opinion yet. I await some real news rather than speculation.
Title: Re: The hot news in the UK
Post by: zanzibar on December 05, 2006, 07:41:55 pm
I don't see this as having any implications whatsoever.  The only change will be in the public perception of the current political state of affairs in Russia regarding the KGB - but nothing has actually changed.
Title: Re: The hot news in the UK
Post by: Idoru on December 05, 2006, 07:51:48 pm
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I don't see this as having any implications whatsoever

I was effectively quoting the current Russian standpoint.
Title: Re: The hot news in the UK
Post by: zanzibar on December 05, 2006, 10:03:09 pm
Quote from: Idoru on December 05, 2006, 07:51:48 pm
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I don't see this as having any implications whatsoever

I was effectively quoting the current Russian standpoint.


ehhhh.  The Brits are guilty of it too.  Doesn't anyone remember that assasination back near the beggining of the Iraq war?  MI5 tried to pass it off as a suicide?
Title: Re: The hot news in the UK
Post by: Parallo on December 05, 2006, 10:06:09 pm
Harrowdown hill. Thom Yorke wrote a song about it.
Title: Re: The hot news in the UK
Post by: Idoru on December 06, 2006, 08:33:02 am
Are you honestly claiming that the death of Dr. David Kelly was an assasination and not suicide?

[Edit]
OK, ignore that. I have some reading to do at work it seems ;)
Title: Re: The hot news in the UK
Post by: Helm on December 06, 2006, 04:51:50 pm
Oooooh... this sounds like a spyonage movie! I have nothing to say to it because I know nothing about it. But it's quite a change from taxes and pedophilia news from here!
Title: Re: The hot news in the UK
Post by: Parallo on December 06, 2006, 05:10:55 pm
Quote from: Idoru on December 06, 2006, 08:33:02 am
Are you honestly claiming that the death of Dr. David Kelly was an assasination and not suicide?

I thought that that was accepted fact by now. There was some chap that stood outside 10 Downing Street with a portrait of David Kelly for hours. He just stood there. The government was totaly ignoring the questions being asked.
Title: Re: The hot news in the UK
Post by: Idoru on December 07, 2006, 09:41:49 pm
Hmmm, things get even more complicated, Click Me! (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6219124.stm)

Curiouser and curiouser.