Thank God we're not Russia

Something suspicious here?
http://www.smh.com.au/text/articles/...246621809.html

"The pilot of one of two Russian planes that crashed almost simultaneously
had sent a hijack alert,"...and, in the same story:

"FSB officials had not yet found evidence of a terrorist act or
explosion..."

Do the Russians really believe people are that stupid?

-c

"gatt" wrote in message
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"The pilot of one of two Russian planes that crashed almost simultaneously
had sent a hijack alert,"...and, in the same story:

"FSB officials had not yet found evidence of a terrorist act or
explosion..."

Do the Russians really believe people are that stupid?

No, but not acknowledging the obvious is effective worldwide. Think WMD.

gatt wrote:
"FSB officials had not yet found evidence of a terrorist act or
explosion..."
Do the Russians really believe people are that stupid?

They actually believe readers are intelligent enough to understand what
"had not yet found" means, sorry they misplaced their expecations.


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"gatt" wrote in message
...

Something suspicious here?
http://www.smh.com.au/text/articles/...246621809.html

"The pilot of one of two Russian planes that crashed almost simultaneously
had sent a hijack alert,"...and, in the same story:

"FSB officials had not yet found evidence of a terrorist act or
explosion..."

Do the Russians really believe people are that stupid?

The Feds believe the American public is as stupid. Its the way of
governments with too much power and too little respect for their people.

Do the Russians really believe people are that stupid?

C'mon! You know how crash investigations work, and this one is no
exception. They need a bit more than 24 hours to come up with anything
remotely concrete. The probability of terrorism is very high in this case,
but it also isn't quite 100%.


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"HECTOP" wrote in message
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gatt wrote:
"FSB officials had not yet found evidence of a terrorist act or
explosion..."
Do the Russians really believe people are that stupid?

They actually believe readers are intelligent enough to understand what
"had not yet found" means, sorry they misplaced their expecations.

Near as I can tell, you and I are the only people who know what that means.

"Geoffrey Barnes" wrote in message
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Do the Russians really believe people are that stupid?

C'mon! You know how crash investigations work, and this one is no
exception. They need a bit more than 24 hours to come up with anything
remotely concrete. The probability of terrorism is very high in this
case,
but it also isn't quite 100%.

And remember jumping to the wrong conclusion, or at least pretending to,
about a terrorist act recently cost a certain government an election. OK,
that was about which terrorists, but the comparison still applies.

-- David Brooks

gatt wrote:
Right. The planes didn't explode.

Sure, neither did TWA800.

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"HECTOP" wrote in message
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gatt wrote:
"FSB officials had not yet found evidence of a terrorist act or
explosion..."
Do the Russians really believe people are that stupid?

They actually believe readers are intelligent enough to understand what
"had not yet found" means, sorry they misplaced their expecations.

Right. The planes didn't explode. I forgot.

-c

"Geoffrey Barnes" wrote in message
ink.net...
Do the Russians really believe people are that stupid?

C'mon! You know how crash investigations work, and this one is no
exception. They need a bit more than 24 hours to come up with anything
remotely concrete. The probability of terrorism is very high in this
case,
but it also isn't quite 100%.

They didn't say it they didn't know if it was terrorism. They said they had
not yet found evidence. So I guess the HIJACK DISTRESS SIGNAL
(http://www.cnn.com) isn't "evidence," yeah?

-c