"The version of events offered Sunday by the senior State Department official, who spoke on the
condition of anonymity to discuss the closed-door conversations, was both riveting and self-serving.
Russian officials offered no recounting of their own, except to emphasize that the deal was their
idea, discussed in general terms over the past year but not seriously addressed until they proposed
it last week. "

The senior State Department official's comments were 'self-serving'? Strange comment from the author
of the article. Even more interesting is the fact that the deal had been in the discussion stage for
the past year.



http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/how-the-united-states-russia-arrived-at-deal-on-syrias-chemical-weapons/2013/09/15/c851cd1e-1e5b-11e3-8459-657e0c72fec8_story.html?wpisrc=nl_cuzheads
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John H.

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