U.S. diplomats leave Belarus as tensions heighten

Kokonoe

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Sat May-03-08 07:12 PM
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U.S. diplomats leave Belarus as tensions heighten

Source: (AP)

On Wednesday, Belarus ordered 10 of the embassy's 11 diplomats to leave the country, giving them 72 hours to comply.

The departures leave the U.S. Embassy with just four U.S. staffers, down from 35 at the start of the year. The U.S. ambassador left in March after Belarus pulled its ambassador from Washington.

Relations have worsened in recent months, mainly because of U.S. sanctions imposed on a state-controlled oil-processing and chemicals company, Belneftekhim, as well as travel restrictions on Lukashenko and top government officials.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/05/03/belarus.us.ap/index.html?eref=rss_world

Our great chimperor, fighting crooked authoritarian government the world over.

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Xipe Totec

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Sat May-03-08 07:58 PM
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1. Chimpie - pissing the world in various ways,

for no particular reason.

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bluesmail

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Sat May-03-08 08:05 PM
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2. The news article did not cite a reason for the evacuation

could it be we're about to invade another country in the Middle East? :evilfrown:

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paparush

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Sat May-03-08 08:18 PM
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3. Whadaya know...Oil is at the heart of it....HUGE suprise there..

:sarcasm:

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Ezana

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Sun May-04-08 09:10 AM
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4. Sanction works both ways...

For every country we put sanction on, we lose one more market place for our commodities; American companies also lose business to other nations.

It does not seem to have sank in the Bushies that The Era Of Our Monopoly on Technology is gone.

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