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He died en route to the most sensitive mission possible — a visit to the place that has driven a wedge between Poles and Russians for three generations.
The death of Lech Kaczynski, Poland's president and dozens of his high-level countrymen in a plane crash, and the purpose behind the journey, laid bare the deep divisions that remain between two nations still struggling to be more than uneasy neighbors who watch each other with skepticism and suspicion.He died en route to the most sensitive mission possible — a visit to the place... more
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President Of Poland, Lech Kaczynski, his wife, Maria Kaczynski, and several top military officials, lawmakers and the head of the national bank, Slawomir Skrzypek, were killed in a plane crash as it prepared to land at a western Russian airport on Saturday
MORE http://bumpshack.com/2010/04/10/polish-poland-president-dead-killed-in-plane-crash/President Of Poland, Lech Kaczynski, his wife, Maria Kaczynski, and several top... more
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Very sad day for those whom are Polish. Polish President Lech Kaczynski, along with Polish delegation and his wife, was killed in a plane crash early Saturday at a western Russian airport. Reports say there are no survivors. The president had been traveling to the 70th anniversary of a site where Polish POWs were massacred by Soviets in the village of Katyn.
Update: Russian reports say the pilots, against the wishes of the tower, attempted to land in fog and hit the top of some trees.
Among those who died:
-Lech Kaczysnki — Polish president
-Maria Kaczynska — The president's wife
-Aleksander Szczyglo — head of the National Security Office and former defense minister
-Ryszard Kaczorowski — last president of the anti-Communist government-in-exile in London, 1989-90. The government-in-exile was set up after the prewar Warsaw government was forced to flee the Nazis in 1939.
-Gen. Franciszek Gagor — head of the army chief of staff
-Slawomir Skrzypek — head of the National Bank of Poland
More @ the links
World Leaders Express Sorrow: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36358215/ns/world_news-europe/
Officials who died in crash: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36357201/ns/world_news-europe/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8612825.stm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36352097/ns/world_news-europe/Very sad day for those whom are Polish. Polish President Lech Kaczynski, along with... more
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A plane carrying the Polish president, Lech Kaczynski, and his wife crashed in western Russia on Saturday morning, and there were no survivors, according to Russia media.
(more at link)A plane carrying the Polish president, Lech Kaczynski, and his wife crashed in western... more
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