Crossfire War - Armed Incident in South Caucasus - Russia Demands Investigtion
posted by zaina19 on September, 2007 as Imperialism
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 9/21/2007 9:23 PM NewsBlaze Sat Sep 22 02:22:00 UTC+0300 2007 Op-Ed Contributor Crossfire War - Armed Incident in South Caucasus - Russia Demands Investigtion
By Willard Payne Crossfire War - Rapid Fire News - Moscow - Sukhumi - Tskhinvili Watch - South Caucasus Theatre: Moscow - Berlin - Washington - Yerevan - Baku - Tskhinivil - Sukhumi/Tbilisi - Ankara - Tehran - Russia Demands UN Investigation into Georgia Special Forces Attack in Abkhazia - Georgia Claims it was Attacked; al-Qaeda (Iran) Targets European Workers with Suicide Attack in Algeria; Unity of World Albanian Movement in Macedonia; Uzbekistan - Pakistan Sign Defense-Military Cooperation Agreement Targeting India - Khyber Pass Night Watch: KODORI GORGE - RIA is reporting the Russia Foreign Ministry released the following statement after an armed incident in the Kodori Gorge between Abkhazia and Georgia Thursday in which two Abkhazian soldiers were said to have been killed, "We are closely following the development of the situation and demand that the UN Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) along with the command of the CIS Collective Peacekeeping Forces in the zone of the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict and representatives of the conflicting sides, immediately conduct an objective and unbiased investigation into the incident."
Moscow is claiming two Abkhazian soldiers were killed when a Georgian Special Forces unit in the Kodori Gorge attacked a military base of the Abkhazian Interior Ministry where troops from both Abkhazia and Georgia have been facing each other since July 2006. Abkhazia seceded from Georgia, as did South Ossetia, at the end of the Cold War in 1990 since the majority of both of their populations identify with Russia and the Kremlin supports them. [RIA]
But Moscow had to first concentrate on the fighting to the north in Chechnya then Daghestan against Islamic groups supported by Ankara-Tehran, fighting that erupted in Chechnya in December 1994 then spread into Daghestan August 1999. Since the fighting there is largely over Ankara-Tehran have increased their support of the Georgian government in Tbilisi for nearly two years in the desperate hope Russia will be defeated somehow as during the first Chechen war from 1994-96, when due to the enormous corruption of the Russian government at the time Russian soldiers were not even being paid. But that is an extremely desperate hope since under President Vladimir Putin, and with massive financial-industrial support from the West, has led serious reforms in both Russia's economy and military. And that is why it is Moscow who staged this incident. Georgia's Rustavi-2 TV reported six Abkhazian soldiers admitted they had planned to sabotage, blow up a road in the gorge.
Future developments will justify Moscow's massive support, reinforcement of Abkhazia and South Ossetia to such an extent it will take the war to Turkey and Iran's border. Russia has signed a security agreement with the Armenian government in Yerevan and Moscow-Washington have begun using the Gabala radar station in Azerbaijan, with the full cooperation of its government in Baku. Only when Tehran sees Moscow defeating its enemies in the South Caucasus will Tehran then enter into serious negotiations to end its support of Islamic and national groups in this theatre. Moscow-Tehran will then merge their regional-international policy. If all goes well that could happen in less than a year. With its new vacuum bomb tests and strategic bomber flights Moscow is prepared to be convincing very quickly.
Kabylie - The day after Tehran had al-Qaeda's no. 2 video presenter, Ayman al-Zawahiri, warn foreign workers in North Africa, a suicide car bomb was set off in the Kabylie district, 40 miles (70 km) southeast of the capital Algiers. It is an area that had been targeted before. Reuters and the state news agency APS reported al-Qaeda released this statement, "The martyrdom seeking hero Othman Abu-Jafar launched a Mazda vehicle...packed with more than 250 kg (550 lb) of explosives against the Crusader Frenchmen." Three European workers and five gendarmes were wounded. The workers were under the escort of a police convoy. [SWISSINFO]
Tashkent - Xinhua and News Network International (NNI) have reported a six member military delegation from Uzbekistan, headed by Defense Minister Ruslan Mirzaev, arrived in Islamabad, Pakistan for a three-day visit, during which a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) will be signed on military cooperation. Mirazev will be meeting with Pakistan Minister of Defence Rao Sikandar Iqbal. Mirazaev has already stated the reason for the new cooperation is due to both countries having the same religion and history. It is a history with a tradition of Islamic warriors invading India through the Khyber Pass on the Afghan-Pakistan border just 225 miles west of Srinagar, Kashmir. It was just such an invasion that established the Islamic Mogul Empire, which ruled most of India during the 17th century. [XINHUA]
Tetovo - AKI reports Macedonian authorities are investigating a professor who spoke Thursday in Tetovo at the opening of the Macedonian branch of the Unity of World Albanians (UWA) movement. The professor, Miljiam Fejziu, teaches at a university in Tetovo whose population of 80,000 is 70% ethnic Albanian, but Albanians are just 25% of the Macedonian population. Fejziu stated, "It is our universal right to live in one country. The institutions that exist in Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia are to achieve close relations and cooperation on cultural, scientific, economic and every other level. The cooperation should be later polarised towards the tendency to form one body with all-national character. We refer to Macedonia as the third Albanian country in the Balkans." Fejziu sounds like the intellectual leader of the UWA and with such logic; he can claim Greece as the fourth Albanian nation and Serbia the fifth. [AKI]
Tetovo is near the area where heavy fighting began between Albanian nationalist groups and the Macedonian government in Skopje for seven months in 2001. If the fighting had continued every nation, bordering the country could have been caught up in it. The nationalist vision of Greater Albania or re-creating the ancient state of Illyrium is very much active and heavily armed especially with increased relations with Tehran. Iran will use the next war in Southeast Europe, however it begins, to not only keep NATO and the West occupied away from Iran, but the Iranian government will also use the war to silence Vienna and end the investigation into Tehran's nuclear weapons program by the United Nations agency based there.
Fifteen members compose the Macedonian branch of the UWA, a membership that includes Tetovo's Muslim Mufti Alifekri Esati. The congress of the UWA is scheduled to meet in Tirana late November and by then we should know the extent, if any, of their military successes.
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