Georgia Crisis

On the day the world's attention turned to the Olympic opener in Beijing, Russia seized the opportunity for what some critics called a large-scale Soviet-style land grab. In the week preceding Russian involvement on Aug. 8, Georgia had been moving aggresively against separatists in its South Ossetia and Abkhazia provinces, moves that Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin condemned from Beijing as 'aggressive actions.' Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili declared a state of war on Saturday as Russian attacks spread throughout the country.

 
 
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  • Posted By: Unaware2 @ 08/25/2008 6:43:40 PM

    Osama Binladen admitted to organizing the attack on the world trade centre,he is a mastermind engineer after all. He knew that even the strongly built trade centre would fall under the pressure of two planes colliding with it. The terrorists that committed the crime could be from anyway in the middle east, not "Saudi Arabia". I assume you didn't research what you said.

  • Posted By: Unaware2 @ 08/25/2008 6:38:39 PM

    They weren't from Saudi Arabia? Try Afganhistan?

  • Posted By: stormy29 @ 08/23/2008 4:48:11 PM

    I am just curious, if all the hijackers on 9/11 were from Saudi Arabia. What are we doing in Iraq? and why di buliding 7 in the WTC complex fall down on it's own?

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