A Tale of Two Passports -Editorial
Remember Britain's outrage at Israel over the forged UK documents allegedly used in the Dubai assassination of Hamas big shot Mahmoud Mabhouh?
Compare that uproar with the remarkable silence over the forged British passport that the FBI says was used by at least one of the Russian spies recently arrested in the U.S.
It's hard to escape the conclusion that what really infuriated the British was not so much the alleged offense but the identity of its perpetrators.
(Wall Street Journal)
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UPDATE:
Remember Britain's outrage at Israel over the forged UK documents allegedly used in the Dubai assassination of Hamas big shot Mahmoud Mabhouh?
Compare that uproar with the remarkable silence over the forged British passport that the FBI says was used by at least one of the Russian spies recently arrested in the U.S.
It's hard to escape the conclusion that what really infuriated the British was not so much the alleged offense but the identity of its perpetrators.
(Wall Street Journal)
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UPDATE:
Apparently, the government of Ireland knows for certain that Russian intelligence copied the passport of a Donegal firefighter who visited Russia in 2005, and provided the copy to one of its spies caught recently by the FBI.
What will Ireland do about this insult to its sovereignty? Will the Irish expel a Russian diplomat, as they did when they caught Israel using forged Irish documents, or is it only a big deal when Israel does it?
(Atlantic)
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