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#8
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001
Subject: verbovka
From: "Matt Taibbi" <taibbi@exile.ru>

The eXile has uploaded NTV's prank call to the U.S. embassy in Moscow, in which they pretended to be an Afghan vet answering an ad for mercenaries. This call, which created a controversy in Moscow, is not on the net anywhere else. We have it in MP3 form, along with a transcript, at:

http://www.exile.ru/128/verbovka.php

("Recruitment, American-StyleIs the U.S. hiring Russian Afghan war vets... and if so, why don’t they do it in cleaner Russian?")

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