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<b>Missile smokescreen in Moscow</b>
<p><font face="Garamond">When the history of this week's 'breaking story'
about the alleged</font>
<br><font face="Garamond">smuggling of a Russian Igla surface-to-air missile
into the USA is</font>
<br><font face="Garamond">finally written, the subtitle should run as follows:
'State set-up; no</font>
<br><font face="Garamond">relevance to terrorist threat'. JID sheds some
light on a much hyped</font>
<br><font face="Garamond">tale of stupidity, greed and political spin.</font>
<p><font face="Garamond">Despite the plethora of over-excited media headlines
earlier this</font>
<br><font face="Garamond">week, the classic 'sting' operation, which was
organised by the</font>
<br><font face="Garamond">Russian secret service (FSB) and the USA's FBI
to entrap an alleged</font>
<br><font face="Garamond">arms dealer allegedly seeking to sell an Igla
missile to what he</font>
<br><font face="Garamond">apparently believed was a group of Islamic terrorists
in the USA,</font>
<br><font face="Garamond">revealed little beyond the intelligence services'
insatiable desire</font>
<br><font face="Garamond">for positive publicity. Put bluntly, there was
no realistic prospect</font>
<br><font face="Garamond">of this sort of advanced weapon being supplied
to anyone without the</font>
<br><font face="Garamond">active collusion of the Russian state authorities.</font>
<p><font face="Garamond">Above all, most reports missed the main points.
The real threat to the</font>
<br><font face="Garamond">USA and its allies -- and there is a genuine
risk -- comes less from</font>
<br><font face="Garamond">hi-tech weaponry of the Igla variety than from
the committed militant</font>
<br><font face="Garamond">willing to commit suicide, which was demonstrated
by Al-Qaeda on 11</font>
<br><font face="Garamond">September 2001. Moreover, Russia became involved
in this 'sting'</font>
<br><font face="Garamond">because its military has a well-deserved reputation
for selling</font>
<br><font face="Garamond">anything to anyone.</font>
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