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...spying. The reciprocal moves recalled the darkest days of the cold war and suggested that relations will cool during the conservative Bush administration. The expelled Russians included six diplomats alleged to have been the "handlers" of fbi agent Robert Hanssen, arrested in February on charges of spying for the Kremlin...
...does it play for the Kremlin that Saudi Arabia resolved the crisis...
...Russians are simply happy that the hijacking has ended quickly and with minimal bloodshed, which isn't always the case in this country. From the Kremlin's point of view, it could have been a lot worse...
...does this play for the Kremlin...
...assurances that the country's elite antiterrorism squad will be dispatched to the scene and a special task force established to deal with the hijacking. However Putin has remained off camera, and his precise whereabouts are unknown to the journalists who are covering him on vacation in Siberia. His Kremlin handlers are left to assure the public that even in the Muslim holy city of Medina, their elite antiterrorist squad will have access to the plane. But that claim sounds less than probable. Landing in Medina was a very smart move...