Russia sees Georgian links to Beslan

[Aidoneus]

Expected this.. Capt_Nemo, anyone else, give yourself a cookie for seeing it as well.

Russia sees Georgian links to Beslan
Foreign minister calls for Tbilisi to increase cooperation in counter- terrorism
By Anna Arzanova

Admitting that there was no concrete proof to the effect, Russia's Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov nonetheless says it is logical to connect the recent events in South Ossetia and the Beslan hostage crisis.

In separate interviews with the radio state Voice of Russia and the Russian paper Vremya Novostei fingered Georgia for precipitating the deterioration in Georgian- Russian relations.

His sternest words for Georgia came in the interview with the Voice of Russia.

"There are no specific facts that would suggest that these events are linked and were planned in the same center. But the results of the crisis, created by the Georgian authorities in South Ossetia and hostage taking in North Ossetia - previously one of the calmest republics in the region - bring us to think, and the politicians are obliged not to exclude this thought, that this did not happen by chance," he said as quoted by Civil.ge.

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http://www.messenger.com.ge/issues/0696_september_10_2004/news_0696_1.htm

[Wright Patman]

1. Russians know

or at least have reason to believe that this incident was a retaliation by the Rothschilds for action taken by Putin against Mikhail Khodorkovsky of Yukos Oil.

The money powers of the West are now sufficiently incensed to take down Russia and split it up. Nuclear war looms dead ahead.

[Capt_Nemo]

2. You know, Aidoneus, sometimes I hate getting it right

And lately it is happening too often...

There is a silver lining to this, though:
Cheney's transcaucasian pipeline is on the sights of the russian military.

Neo-cons are going to taste their own medicine!

[PeaceProgProsp]

3. That coup in Georgia was way to eagerly embraced by press.

There was something strange about it.

I have no idea if Russia is just spinning, but I do bet that some very powerful, undemocratic interests were behind the Georgia coup...

[shadu]

4. who was actually behind the Beslan attack?

[Aidoneus]

5. damned if I know..

and I say that from no lack of effort.

[Crunchy Frog]

6. What a surprise...

NOT!

Now that Bush has established the precedent, any country is now free to follow it, the only stipulation being that they know they can get away with it.

A country merely has to suffer a terrorist attack to feel justified in invading any country it wants to under the guise of "fighting terrorism", whether the country had anything to do with it or not.

My guess is that eventually China will suffer a terrorist attack and use it as a pretext for invading Taiwan.