Qatar and Russia to release prisoners

[Kingpin]

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Qatar is to release two Russian security agents it arrested on suspicion of assassinating Chechnya's ex-president in Doha two weeks ago.

[MetalBoy]

Wonder how much diplomatic pressure Russia put on Qatar, or if the USA used its leverage over Qatar to get things moving.

"Qatar you are a little cist of a nation growing off of Saudi Arabia's ass, how about we amputate you off?"

[fdt]

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Qatar is to release two Russian security agents it arrested on suspicion of assassinating Chechnya's ex-president in Doha two weeks ago. What to rejoice? If they did the "thing" they shouldn't let the Quatari "services" catch themselves... I think no country needs such a publicity they have provided Russia and Putin with their incompetence. They were supposed to get rid of the guy not to cause a political unrest between Russia and Arabic countries... I have my doubts if those guys will be rewarded for their job after they will be returned to Russia. Another effect will be that all countries in the world will take better care in Russian inteligence monitoring on their territories... nobody likes other countrie's services to do the wet job on their soil...

[Kingpin]

I already told about it. I suppose they have no connections with this case.

[Javehn]

Unbellivable . Russia don't give a f_ck on no one .. I wish some countries were like that sometimes .

[fdt]

I already told about it. I suppose they have no connections with this case.Pls remind me a rationale of Your belief... I can't find it... :(

[fdt]

Unbellivable . Russia don't give a f_ck on no one .. I wish some countries were like that sometimes .What countries...? U mean the Republic Who Gives A ****?

[Kingpin]

But I still doubt those three agents were the ones behind it. These kinds of operations are done by the different organization.

Regards,
16 OBr SpN




Strictly doubt that Qatar authorities catch right men. Well may be they was involved and provided some support but

1. They wasn't undercover what is essential for such deals in such country. They arrived officially and stayed on public.

2. Qatar police are sore loosers. They never met with real criminal. They even didn't know what to do on crime scene. So how they can catch SpecOp professionals within several hours?

So i suppose they just catched first men they knew have reasons to dislike Yandarbiev. With the same success they can throw all Russian embassy staff into prison.

[fdt]

But I still doubt those three agents were the ones behind it. These kinds of operations are done by the different organization.

Regards,
16 OBr SpN




Strictly doubt that Qatar authorities catch right men. Well may be they was involved and provided some support but

1. They wasn't undercover what is essential for such deals in such country. They arrived officially and stayed on public.

2. Qatar police are sore loosers. They never met with real criminal. They even didn't know what to do on crime scene. So how they can catch SpecOp professionals within several hours?

So i suppose they just catched first men they knew have reasons to dislike Yandarbiev. With the same success they can throw all Russian embassy staff into prison.
Well... as it comes to the first ststement by 16 OBr SpN, It was not revealed what service they really were from. Their official denomination could be different from the one supposed official one. Has this been verified somehow?

Sometimes, there are no other way to perform spec ops other way than under official "diplomatic' cover up. It is hard to believe that alleged Russian spec op operators would have a chance to "dissolve" in a small police infiltrated society of people of different race and culture (note here that CIA ops in Soviet Union always had an official cover up because of KGB counter-intelligence infiltration and totalitarian organization of Soviet society). As it comes to the Quatari police I have no verified data to say if they are or not efficient, but anyway I still believe that they may be just efficient enough to cover few selected embassies alleged intel activities.

[GazB]

nobody likes other countrie's services to do the wet job on their soil...

Not necessarily true. There was that attack by UAV in Yemen a little while back. Yemen don't have any Hellfire armed UAVs you know.

[16 OBr SpN]

Some INTERESTING, developments!!

Russian MP accuses U.S. of double standards in treating Yandarbiyev case

Konstantin Kosachyov, chief of the international affairs committee of Russia's State Duma (parliament's lower house) has said the degree of and reasons behind the United States' involvement in the arrest of the Russian nationals in Qatar is yet to be found out.

Mr. Kosachyov commented on a recent statement by Steven Pifer, US Under-secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia, in which he admitted that Washington had provided technical assistance to Qatar in arresting the Russian nationals on suspicion of involvement in the assassination of Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, a Chechen separatist leader.

"It is deplorable that the US, which had recently advanced the initiative that Mr. Yandarbiyev should be put on the list of the most dangerous terrorists of the world, compiled by the UN, did not provide technological and political assistance to the international community, when it was searching for this international terrorist," said Mr Kosachyov.

No evidence of the Russian nationals' involvement in the assassination of Mr. Yandarbiyev has been furnished, noted the MP.

The chairman of a related Duma committee criticised the Qatari authorities for not allowing the arrestees to meet their lawyers.

Three Russian security officers were arrested in Qatar on February 18 on charges of being part of the assassination of Mr. Yandarbiyev. One of the arrestees, who had a diplomatic passport, was released later.

The Russian Foreign Ministry issued a statement in the wake of the arrest, saying the officers were staying in Qatar legally and were gathering and analysing information as part of an anti-terrorist effort and did not violate Qatari law.

The Russians continue to be jailed, and the local authorities insist they should be brought to trial.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said last week that Moscow demanded that the arrestees should be allowed to return home.

"Russia's position (on the arrest) was set out by ex-Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov. It has not changed since then. We have appealed to the Qatari authorities insisting that the Russian nationals should be allowed to return to Russia," said Mr. Lavrov.

Source: http://newsfromrussia.com/main/2004/03/22/52919.html

Long live double standards, eh!!??
I think this case will further develop, and it actually might erupt into a full scale political/diplomatic scandal.
"War on terror" my ass!!! :bash:

[Truthsayer]

'The war on terror' is a slogan, not the agenda.

[Mr Gently Benevolent]

"Qatar you are a little cist of a nation growing off of Saudi Arabia's ass, how about we amputate you off?"
Cos the US needs all the support it can get amonst Arab nations and it likes to use Qatar as a base duh.