Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Michael Totten reports from Tbilisi:
TBILISI, GEORGIA - Virtually everyone believes Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili foolishly provoked a Russian invasion on August 7, 2008, when he sent troops into the breakaway district of South Ossetia. "The warfare began Aug. 7 when Georgia launched a barrage targeting South Ossetia," the Associated Press reported over the weekend in typical fashion.
Virtually everyone is wrong. Georgia didn't start it on August 7, nor on any other date. The South Ossetian militia started it on August 6 when its fighters fired on Georgian peacekeepers and Georgian villages with weapons banned by the agreement hammered out between the two sides in 1994. At the same time, the Russian military sent its invasion force bearing down on Georgia from the north side of the Caucasus Mountains on the Russian side of the border through the Roki tunnel and into Georgia. This happened before Saakashvili sent additional troops to South Ossetia and allegedly started the war.
"Georgia didn't start it on August 7, nor on any other date. The South Ossetian militia started it on August 6 when its fighters fired on Georgian peacekeepers and Georgian villages with weapons banned by the agreement hammered out between the two sides in 1994."
- Can you name a source from where you got this information? Thanks
As far as I know there was a cease fire in place that started the evening of August 7th. That Georgia broke by shelling Tshkinvali the following night. Surprising the sleeping Ossetians.
well. not an astute on this affair, but what I know is that the Goergion presedent exotic Duetch wife is a CIA agent that lived in manhatten, and that he cant reject anything she says.( From a well trusted source, an EMbassadore himself).
so this peice of information may make things a bit clearer.
an thanx MR.TOtten....
It certainly does. The Georgian President is a slave to his Dutch wife who was a CIA agent. The Russian invasion now makes perfect sense.