Moscow offered Wednesday to airlift out 816 Russians and citizens of ex-Soviet states working in Iraq despite the safe release of Russian and Ukrainian hostages in Baghdad.

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We did have an air ambulance lined up to airlift him out of Iraq, but today's development will help a lot.

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Attempts to somehow make an issue out of the price for the military airlift are also absurd.

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The heroes of the blockade turned out to be Bevin, President Truman and Clay, the American proconsul who created the airlift which succeeded in supplying Berlin in the face of a belief within the Pentagon that Berlin could not be sustained by air.

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