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Originally Posted by BBKing
What's the Severn Valley Railway got to do with it?
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LOL.
The SVR is Russia's external security service. Used to be the KGB's First Chief Directorate. Responsible for foreign espionage & intelligence.
The FSB is the internal service. Used to be the KGB's Second Chief Directorate. Responsible for counter-intelligence & counter-espionage.
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Originally Posted by BBKing
Back to Barack for a bit, this story shows again how the loony right is shooting itself in the foot with every attempted smear:
http://www.juancole.com/2008/02/bara...r-bradley.html
Rather an obvious thing to point out, that Middle Eastern/Semitic/Arabic names are all over the place. Therefore if you want to smear Obama and you try and suggest that it's UnAmerican to have one, you're smearing quite a lot of key historic figures, like Abraham Lincoln and Benjamin Franklin. |
I read about that in the Grauniad today.
Interesting link.
I'm still wondering which side started this thing with the robe photo...