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Tuesday, 26 August 2008 |
This was Friday before last, but the Tankerbabe points out the Free Republic report on the flag-waving fun that was had by all. There is even some video of me playing with the moonbat ponytail master Bruce. He was lame...read
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Tuesday, 26 August 2008 |
The Peshawar Consulate's Principal Officer and her driver evade an ambush on the streets of Peshawar as the Taliban step up attacks against the government in the provincial capital.read
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Tuesday, 26 August 2008 |
I#39;ve been saying this in relatively closed circles for about two weeks now, but figured with the Pakistani coalition government now officially in c... . . .read
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Tuesday, 26 August 2008 |
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.
Regional expert, German native, and former European Commission official Patrick Worms was recently hired by the Georgian government as a media advisor, and he explained to me exactly what happened when I met him in downtown Tbilisi. You should always be careful with the version of events told by someone on government payroll even when the government is friendly as democratic as Georgia's. I was lucky, though, that another regional expert, author and academic Thomas Goltz, was present during Worms' briefing to me and signed off on it as completely accurate aside from one tiny quibble.
Goltz has been writing about the Caucasus region for almost 20 years, and he isn't on Georgian government payroll. He earns his living from the University of Montana and from the sales of his books Azerbaijan Diary, Georgia Diary and Chechnya Diary. Goltz experienced these three Caucasus republics at their absolute worst, and he knows the players and the events better than just about anyone. Every journalist in Tbilisi seeks him out as the old hand who knows more than the rest of us put together, and he wanted to hear Patrick Worms' spiel to reporters in part to ensure its accuracy.
“You,” Worms said to Goltz just before he started to flesh out the real story to me, “are going to be bored because I'm going to give some back story that you know better than I do.”
“Go,” Goltz said. “Go.”
The back story began at least as early as the timread
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Monday, 25 August 2008 |
This is what we've been fighting in Iraq... ...not teenage girls with explosives strapped to them - but the people who would strap explosives to teenage girls. The AP story adds this bit of intel on the almost-"suicide" bomber:Police in Baqouba, where the girl was caught Sunday, said she told them she was fitted with the explosives by female relatives of her husband, whom she married five months ago.The AP says she is "14 or 15" - the original MNF-I...read
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