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"It's a hard decision, but we think the price ... is worth it."-- Secretary of State Madelaine Albright talking about Iraqi children starving and dying as a result of the US embargo of food and medicine

 

Russian jet crash kills all 88 on board

At least 20 foreigners and seven children were on the plane which witnesses said burst into flames as it prepared to land on a flight from Moscow. The wreckage cut off a stretch of the Trans-Siberian railway.

"It was burning while still in the sky and it looked like a falling comet," one female witness told Russia's Vesti-24 television.

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Among the victims was General Gennady Troshev, a former top commander of Russia's war in Chechnya and advisor to ex-president Vladimir Putin, Interfax news agency reported, citing Russia's transport ministry.

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Did someone just send someone a message?

Comments

Jet crash

jintampa

Mike...I think the message is loud and clear....planes seem to hold a certain fascination for the opps....no?

Black Boxes and a fuselage

boulderdash

It is interesting to note that the black boxes have already been found, as well as the airplane parts, unlike a certain plane crash in Pennsylvania on 9-11-01.

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