In Georgia, Russia digs in as pullback date nears

Source: AP

SACHKHERE, Georgia - Russian forces dug trenches and built sentry posts deep inside Georgia on Wednesday, showing few signs they would pull back later this week as promised.
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Georgian soldiers suggested the Russians were trying to provoke them and justify a resumption of the conflict, which over five days pounded the infrastructure of the small former Soviet republic and the morale of its troops.

In the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, President Mikhail Saakashvili told The Associated Press that Russia was thinning out its presence in some of the towns it occupies but was seizing other strategic spots.

"What we're seeing now is a clear regrouping and also, again, some kind of deception campaign, saying, 'Look, we're moving out,'" Saakashvili said....

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080820/ap_on_re_eu/georgia_russia

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My original prediction may still come true.

NO ONE. We can talk shit all we want but we can't back it up. They know it too.

But military intervention is out of the question.

signed with former Soviet Union satellites like poland and most of these countries now wanting to join NATO. I think if we keep pushing this, it is going to make for some interesting, and maybe dangerous times.

Russia has a lot at stake here.

Any idea that they have agreed to leave is wrong. The West can set timetables, but Russia isn't actually going back on the agreement.
I think they are using the new definition of 'security' that the US created in Iraq.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gDNLWfQWKrQc48pITBUg9KT_6oVwD92M4IPO0

In position to crush the springtime in Prague err

Georgia

"Russian forces on Wednesday built a sentry post just 30 miles from the Georgian capital, appearing to dig in to positions deep inside Georgia ... a sentry post of timber on a hill outside Igoeti, 30 miles from Tbilisi and the closest point to the capital where Russian troops have maintained a significant presence."

Wow, a sentry post of timber is from where the Russians will crush the Georgian capital. I am getting very very afraid.

As it happens, this sentry post is just about 5 miles south from the South Ossetian border, but then again South Ossetia herself is, of course, "deep inside Georgia", ROFL!

Source: "agencies"


Russian troops are fortifying a "buffer zone" around the disputed South Ossetia region with eight military posts and a ban on Georgian aircraft, a senior Russian commander has said.

Russia will also maintain a military presence around Abkhazia, another separatist region in the west of Georgia, Anatoly Nogovitsyn, the deputy head of Russia's general staff said in a televised news conference in Moscow on Wednesday.

He said: "We are establishing two lines of posts for the peacekeeping contingent" in South Ossetia.

"The buffer zone is stipulated by agreements, and Russian peacekeeping forces are allowed to move in it in the event a conflict breaks out," he said.

Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2008/08/2008820143346769471.html

Hopefully, peace will come to the area.

Where did they get that idea from? I can see this one coming too:

"Saakashvili kills his own people!"