Russian Immigrant Seeks U.S. Intervention ('99 Russian MIHOP?)

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON -- A Russian who was granted political asylum last month met Friday with State Department officials on behalf of a former Russian security officer who, she says, is being punished because he knows the truth about a devastating 1999 bombing in Moscow.

Alyona Morozova, 28, said she told U.S. officials that President Bush should raise the issue next Thursday when he meets with President Vladimir Putin in Slovakia. At stake is the fate of Mikhail Trepashkin, who is serving a four-year prison term.

Meeting briefly with reporters outside the State Department, Morozova said she believes Russian security officers were behind the September 1999 terrorist attack on an apartment complex in southern Moscow. The death toll was estimated at 300 and included her mother and boyfriend. Morosova was among the injured.

Russian authorities blamed Chechen terrorists. Morozova said the bombing was instrumental in rallying support for Putin, a veteran of the security services who was then prime minister. Russia has acknowledged that the bombing was a contributing factor to a military offensive against Chechen rebels that began a month later.
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Morozova joined a commission set up to investigate the bombing and believed her life was in jeopardy after a fellow commission member was murdered and another died of an unexplained food allergy.

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-us-russia,0,6864380.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

[ConcernedCanuk]

1. "'99 Russian MIHOP?" - don think so, more like Murikkkan propaganda

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She was granted asylum over 3 weeks ago,

and we hear about it now?

AND - from the article;


The Bush administration denied two requests from her for political asylum but granted a third request, last month, without explanation.



A convenience for BushCo to criticize the Russians, that's all

Just took them a while to realize it's newsworthiness, and the timing is right

Junior and gang don't do favors for nothing . .