Russia Prepares the Insurgency

Ignored in the mainstream.

Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili said a Russian military officer was among two people killed when Georgian security forces clashed with Moscow-backed separatists in the breakaway province of Abkhazia on Wednesday.

Russian U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin disputed the Georgian version of events, saying Georgian forces had attacked a training exercise in a move aimed at aggravating tensions between Moscow and the former Soviet republic.

Saakashvili told the U.N. General Assembly: "One of the people was a lieutenant-colonel of the Russian military, and ... he was killed during a law-enforcement operation against armed separatist insurgents."

Pointing an accusing finger at Moscow, he said: "One has to wonder -- what was a vice-colonel of the Russian military doing in the Georgian forests, organizing and leading a group of armed insurgents on a mission of terror?"

Rhetorical question. The real question is, will the West watch your nation be systematically assimilated into Russia? Despite their help on the ground in both wars the US fights, I have serious doubts that Bush will be there for Georgia when the time comes.