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by ARLnow.com July 5, 2010 at 7:49 am 1,192 1 Comment

Power Outage in Ballston/Virginia Square — More than 1,600 Dominion customers are without power this morning due to a problem with an underground cable in the area of the Ballston and Virginia Square Metro stations, according to WJLA.

Arlington Spy Suspects Admit True Identities — Patricia Mills and Michael Zottoli, the Pentagon City couple arrested last weekend and charged with being secret agents for the Russian government, are actually Russian citizens named Natalia Pereverzeva and Mikhail Kutzik, prosecutors have revealed. The couple and a third Arlington defendant, Mikhail Semenko, briefly appeared in court Friday. They will face a preliminary hearing in Alexandria federal court on Wednesday.

Katie

I wonder if any of them actually scored anything useful. Seems like unnecessary drama–with the main victims being their children. And why not just say you’re Russian? It’s not as though we’re on the lookout for commie neighbors.

Unless you can infiltrate the labs in the desert, or the top brass of the military, I don’t think the US really has secret, hidden information. OK, McDonalds must have some secret ingredient in their burgers that makes people keep coming back. Crack that code and you’ll be rich, rich!

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