2 QATAR RESIDENTS DETAINED IN MOSCOW
They always have a card up their sleeve and never seem to worry about the whiners. Maybe it's because, in the bad old days, the whiners never cared about what the Commies did and the "new" Russia is still getting a pass.
MOSCOW, February 29, 2004 (RIA Novosti) - A source in the Qatar embassy to Russia has confirmed the detention of two Qatar residents in Moscow.
The arrestees are members of Qatar's Olympic wrestling team, which was transiting via Moscow to Serbia for the qualifying wrestling tournament ahead of the Athens Olympics.
The Qatar embassy was informed of the incident, noted a source.
The athletes were detained for the failure to declare a big sum of money they were carrying and improperly processed documents.
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) has denied to comment on the incident.
However, Russian and foreign experts already qualified the detention as Russia's retaliation to the February 19 arrest in Doha of two Russian security officers. The Qatar officials charged them with involvement in the assassination of ex-Chechen president Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev. Experts predict that Russia will try to exchange the athletes for the Russian nationals, who remain in custody despite Moscow's strong protests.
So why not do a little outsourcing? In these days of the Kumbaya CIA, all of our people are busy working on their diversity quilts anyhow.
