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| Caucasus |
| Somebody tried to whack Shevardnadze ... |
| 2003-11-03 |
| Maybe they can hire the crack folks at the Belgrade PD to locate the culprits ... Security forces in the former Soviet republic of Georgia said Sunday they had found a cache of weapons which was to have been used in an attack on President Eduard Shevardnadze. Did they have "Made in Russia" stamped on them? The announcement came the same day as a parliamentary election which has left tensions running high between opposition parties and the authorities. Shevardnadze, 75, has survived two near-miss assasination attempts during his ten-year tenure as Georgia’s leader. Pity they didn’t succeed, otherwise the Georgians would be minus one dictator and Ruslan Gelayev would be looking for new housing ... "According to our information, it was intended for detonation near the cortege of the president in order to sow instability in society," he said. The jihadis in the Pankisi Gorge, meanwhile, are doing that quite alright on their own. In one of the assassination bids on Shevardnadze, his armoured limousine was hit by anti-tank grenades. Observers said the election was set to deliver a stern rebuke to Shevardnadze, blamed by many voters for a decade of poverty and corruption. Kind of the same way that Rooters "blames" al-Qaeda for 9/11. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #2 Hitman can't spell. The sanction was for the governor of California. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2003-11-3 2:06:30 PM |
| #1 Did they have "Made in Russia" stamped on them? You were expecting "Made in |
| Posted by: Steve White 2003-11-3 12:44:06 AM |