WTH - I posted an AP story about Obama and Lugar getting stopped

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in Russia and it got locked and disappeared with no explanation.

This is when ATA is needed.

Two U.S. senators held at Siberian airport (Lugar, Obama)

By Jim Heintz, Associated Press Writer | August 28, 2005

MOSCOW --Two U.S. senators visiting sites where weapons of mass destruction are being stored were held for several hours Sunday at a Siberian airport while trying to leave Russia, a U.S. Embassy spokesperson said.

Richard Lugar, R-Ind., and Barack Obama, D-Ill., were held at the airport in Perm but allowed to leave after discussions between U.S. and Russian officials, the embassy spokesperson said on condition of anonymity.

Lugar, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Obama spent three days in Russia visiting sites where warheads are stored before destruction under the U.S.-funded Comprehensive Threat Reduction program.

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The spokesperson also said Sen. Chuck Hegel, R-Neb., was delayed in departing from another Russian airport Sunday because of documentation problems.

http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/0...

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1. I read it

your thread seemed fine to me

agree w/ you about ATA too

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2. it was locked as a dup of this, strict posting rules in LBN

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1733133

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3. Barack Obama is a fine man.

Did you ask Skinner or anyone inside DU about what happened to the thread?

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4. If you get an explanation, I'd like to hear it.

I've seen that happen, too, and just recently. It wasn't my thread but one I was posting a response to. By the time I hit "Post Message," it was gone. And the OP wasn't breaking any rules, as far as I could tell. :shrug:

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5. Locking this.

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