Konyok said:

“Eggplant, Forgive me if I sounded criticial, or, egads, pedantic.”

Not a problem. I welcome correction or constructive criticism.

Konyok also said:

“It’s just that the FSB usage here has gotten universal and I think that we need to name our enemies precisely. GRU is a monstrous and evil organization that slinked its way through the fall of the Soviet Union because it had no domestic enemies except the KGB.”

I remember reading about the GRU from the writings of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (may he rest in peace). However I’ve never done any real study of the organization. The following wikipedia article is of interest (I’m amused that the GRU uses the bat as their emblem):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRU