" Senior Pentagon advisor Richard Perle said Russia "should be excluded" from the Group of Eight (G8) industrial nations for its arrest at gunpoint of its top oil baron, it was reported. "Not one of the G8 countries would allow itself to behave in such a way with one of its leading businessmen," the US Defence Department advisor said of the arrest last Saturday of the head of the Yukos oil giant Mikhail Khodorkovsky in an interview published Thursday in the business daily Kommersant, warning that Russia was "heading in the wrong direction." Khodorkovsky, whose oil group is the centre of a wide-ranging fraud investigation, was surrounded by armed security forces in a dawn raid at an airport in Siberia while he was on a business trip and flown back to Moscow. He was charged on seven counts of fraud, including one of embezzling the state of more than one billion dollars, and imprisoned. The arrest has been widely seen in Moscow as politically motivated, with Khodorkovsky having financed opposition parties ahead of December 7th parliamentary elections. As quoted by Kommersant, Perle said he hoped "the US administration will not allow Russian companies to return" to Iraq, noting that Washington had "liberated the Iraqis from the monstrous regime of Saddam Hussein with which Russian had fruitfully cooperated for a long time."
2007-06-10 01:43:51 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Its very obvious why they care about this arrest & make big deal about it,
When u know that the arrested person is jewish,u can figure out why they r interested in this case specially,while russia aressts a lot of ppl everyday & usa never talked about it !!!
& when u know he is jew & he is an OIL baron,u can tell how & by who america is run.
2007-06-10 03:00:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am only waving a China made US flag...
As a neocon, I am still deeply disturbed at Kremlin-driven vendetta to control a chunk of the strategically important oil sector. I can feel the pain in Richard's eyes.
2007-06-10 09:05:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
America arrests corrupt executives too...so who cares.
Police in the US carry guns...just like the russians....so who cares.
It all sounds rather stupid and part of a game of whose slong is biggest between the Ruskies and the Yankees.....I guess now I know the appeal of the cold war.
2007-06-10 08:51:52 · answer #3 · answered by flingebunt 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I's not the "WHO" but the "WHY" that is usually at issue....and the Pentagon scares me...
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2007-06-10 08:48:46 · answer #4 · answered by ? 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋