BBC/1ST UPDATE/ His brother Jaroslaw kneeled before the casket of the dead president after it arrived in Warsaw following the tragic Smolensk plane crash that killed 96 and almost decapitated the Polish leadership. “The modern world has never seen such a drama,” said Polish PM Donald Tusk. “Many of our friends and acquaintances have died.”This is so very much like Katyn, where our head was cut off," said former President Lech Walesa. An inquiry led by PM Vladimir Putin himself is looking into why the pilot of the 20-year-old Russian Tupolev airliner refused to divert as the plane tried and failed to land three times before clipping some trees and crashing short of the runway. The delegation was on its way to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the notorious Katyn Massacre of 22,000 Polish officers by Russian agents. Some are calling the new tragedy the Second Katyn Massacre.
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