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| Caucasus |
| Russia not preparing operations against Georgia |
| 2002-05-17 |
| Russia will not prepare any operations against Georgia, Director of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) Nikolai Patrushev has said. Patrushev was commenting on recent statements by Georgian officials about preparations of Abkhaz armed units supported by the Russian military to invade the Kodori Gorge. ''Russia is interested in Georgia being a strong and consolidated state, which meets the national interests of both Russia and other CIS states,'' the FSB director told a press conference in Tbilisi. Notice that he didn't say they're not going to invade the Kodori Gorge? After comments by Chairman of the Russian State Duma international affairs committee Dmitri Rogozin that the leader of the Dagestani Wahhabite organization Rappan Khalilov and other terrorists responsible for the bombing in Kaspiisk on May 9 are currently in the Pankisi Gorge, Patrushev noted that Russian parliamentarians ''make a lot of statements'', which most often express only their personal opinion. That's Russian for "He's full of it. Don't listen to him." Interesting point, though: I hadn't known there was a Dagestani wahhabite organization independent of the Chechen thugs. Suppose it's reasonable, though. Sammy had that Kuwaiti figurehead "government" made up of "young revolutionaries" who somehow appeared, then evaporated shortly after the invasion. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |