Pavel.

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Pavel Felgenhauer.

I looked up Pavel Felgenhauer by doing a Google search and found a lot of stuff for him posted on the web.

It seems that Pavel is a self-described independent military analyst with a lot of contacts in the Russian military.

Here is just a sampling of sites for Pavel:

http://sunday.ninemsn.com.au/sunday/political_transcripts/article_1259.asp

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/01/18/008.html

http://www.cdi.org/russia/284-11.cfm

http://www.parapundit.com/archives/001097.html

At one time, there was a Soviet citizen named Vitali Lui that went by the nom de plume' of Victor Louis. When the Soviets wanted to confuse the western world, they had this Victor, posing as a journalist, "leak" vital information from Soviet leaders that Victor said, "he had been told in confidence".

This Pavel presumably is NOT the same type of shill as was Victor Louis. More of a western news analyst specializing in military affairs.

This I would hope is so!

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