Russia Sends Missiles to Iran, and Other Day After Thanksgiving News

There is something going on in the world and it seems to have accelerated since the election. The carnage in Iraq has significantly increased, the Iranians are more defiant than ever, and Putin seems to be making moves.

An ex-KGB spy accused Vladimir Putin of his murder in a statement read out on Friday after his death from radiation poisoning, but the Russian president brushed off the accusation as "political provocation".

British authorities said large quantities of polonium 210, a radioactive isotope, had been discovered in Alexander Litvinenko's body. Police were studying how it got there and experts searched for traces of it at several locations.

"You may succeed in silencing one man. But a howl of protest from around the world will reverberate, Mr. Putin, in your ears for the rest of your life," the ex-spy said in a statement read out by friends in front of the London hospital where he died overnight of organ failure.

I doubt that this guy drank his own self-made isotope cocktail. Putin is also busy selling a whole bunch of those little ditties pictured above to Iran -- purely for defensive purposes you know -- PURELY TO DEFEND IRAN'S NUCLEAR FACILITIES! What a guy, that former KGB Russian President. Says that he'll step down after this term, too. We'll see.

Captain Ed looks at the news that Iran is talking a wee bit of cooperation and sees a possible fly in their nuclear development ointment.

Only a program failure could have gotten Teheran to reconsider cooperation with the IAEA. The US and the West should use this leverage to ensure that the Iranians come completely clean.

A completely clean Iran -- one can only wonder what that would look like. A completely clean Los Angeles Times would be nice, too. Patterico asks "Is the L.A. Times Repeating Enemy Propaganda?"

Is the L.A. Times reporting unconfirmed enemy propaganda from an Iraqi stringer with ties to the insurgency? Or is the paper simply misreporting the facts, and failing to seek out and report the military’s side of the story?

You be the judge.

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Just to make all this more interesting, Patrick Leahy's upcoming Senate Judiciary Committee is throwing down the gauntlet.

What a day after Thanksgiving, huh? (db)

Cross posted at Okie on the Lam . . .