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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Double S" data-source="post: 11639170" data-attributes="member: 186150"><img src="http://www.channelnewsasia.com/components/display_image.php?id=475331" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> MOSCOW - Russia's  Vladimir Putin implicated Washington Thursday in the killing of Libyan  dictator Muammar Gaddafi and launched a tirade against Senator John  McCain in an extraordinary attack on US policies.The Russian  premier used his annual televised phone-in to unleash the type of  no-holds-barred attack that characterised his 2000-2008 term as  president and threatens to shadow his expected return to the Kremlin in  March polls.Putin turned stone-faced when asked about a tweet  from McCain -- one of Washington's fiercest critics of Putin -- warning  Russia it faced an "Arab spring" revolt over the disputed December 4  parliamentary elections."Mr McCain fought in Vietnam. I think  that he has enough blood of peaceful citizens on his hands. It must be  impossible for him to live without these disgusting scenes anymore,"  Putin said in reference to Gaddafi."Who did this?" Putin demanded. "Drones, including American ones."They  attacked his column. Then using the radio -- through the special  forces, who should not have been there -- they brought in the so-called  opposition and fighters, and killed him without court or investigation."The Pentagon immediately dismissed the charge as "ludicrous"."The  assertion that US special operations forces were involved in the  killing of Colonel Gaddafi is ludicrous," spokesman Captain John Kirby  told AFP on the sidelines of US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta's visit  to Iraq."We did not have American boots on the ground in the Libya operation. All our support was done through the air and on the seas."Russia  had initially allowed NATO's air campaign in Libya to go ahead by  abstaining in a UN Security Council vote. But it then vehemently  criticised a campaign that Putin at one stage compared to a Western  "crusade".The former KGB agent is widely expected to return to  the Kremlin despite a recent dip in public approval and mass street  protests -- the first of his rule -- over the outcome of this month's  legislative elections.Putin last week blamed US Secretary of  State Hillary Clinton of sparking the rallies by questioning the vote's  legitimacy and had earlier accused the State Department of trying to  destabilise Russia by funding the opposition.But his response  was even more icy when asked about McCain's comments on his planned  return to the presidency and the street protests rocking Moscow."I know Mr McCain," said Putin while stressing that he prefer not to refer to him as a "friend"."This  was not addressed in my direction. This was said about Russia. Some  people want to move Russia aside somewhere in a corner, so it does not  intervene -- so that it does not intervene in the ruling of the world,"  said Putin."They still fear our nuclear capabilities," he said in reference to the West."That  is why we are such an irritant. We have our own opinion and are  conducting our own independent foreign policy ... And it clearly bothers  someone."Putin has spent years carefully crafting a strongman  image that combines feats such as hunting and whaling with a Cold  War-style foreign policy that recalls Moscow's might and seems to have  especially appealed to voters.That approach worked throughout  the past decade and kept his approval at meteoric highs. But his ratings  appear to have been hit by the September announcement that he planned  to swap jobs with President Dmitry Medvedev next year.The dip in  support suggests that Russians may be tiring of hostilities with the  West and Putin stressed that the country was not moving into isolation  despite his problems with Washington."The West is far from homogeneous. We have more friends than enemies," Putin said.- AFP/irලිබියානු නායක කර්නල් මුවම්මර් ගඩාෆි ඝාතනය කිරීම සඳහා නියමුවන් රහිත ඇමරිකානු ඩ්‍රෝන් යානා සම්බන්ධ වූ බවට රුසියානු අගමැති ව්ලැඩිමීර් පුටින් චෝදනා කරනවා. සිය වාර්ෂික ගුවන් විදුලි, රූපවාහිණි සජීවි සංවාදයට එක්වෙමින් ඔහු කියා සිටියේ ඩ්‍රෝන් යානා මගින් අඩපණ කරනු ලැබු ගඩාෆිගේ කණ්ඩායම අල්වා ගන්නා ලෙස ඔවුන් කැරළිකරුවන් වෙත දැනුම් දී ඇති බවයි. ලබන වසරේ නැවතත් රුසියානු ජනාධිපති ධුරයට පැමිණීමට සැලසුම් කර ඇති අගමැති පුටින් මේ බව කියා සිටියේ ඇමරිකාවේ සිට ඔහු වෙත යොමුවු පැනයකට පිළිතුරු ලෙසයි. කෙසේ නමුත්, ගඩාෆි ඝාතනය සම්බන්ධයෙන් රුසියානු අගමැති ව්ලැඩිමීර් පුටින් එල්ල කරන චෝදනා ඇමරිකානු පෙන්ටගනය දැඩි ලෙස ප‍්‍රතික්ෂේප කළා. <a href="http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/1171546/1/.html" target="_blank">http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/1171546/1/.html</a>ගත‍්තේ මේකෙන්..................... </blockquote>

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