Why the hell wouldn’t you send a military convoy of Georgian 30 Kamaz-type trucks, 18 Niva off-road cars and two armored vehicles to an area next to Abkhazia in order to bring in a rebel warlord and his 200-300 paramilitary fighters? Because Abkhaz troops are on high alert? Because it would be a violation of the 1994 Moscow agreement on cease-fire and separation of forces? Because it’s full of Svans, who make the Hatfields and McCoys look like Quakers?
Wrong: there is no reason. This is a fark.com moment waiting to happen.
I hope, since the cited source is the perfidious Abkhaz, that it turns out to be baseless. But since Nino Burjanadze, the Chair of Parliament, has just called on this rebel warlord to surrender their arms and cease defying the central authorities… I guess we’ll see how well the U.S. trained the Georgian Army.
Best quote in the negotiating-with-terrorists category so far this year:
“The only issue I can negotiate with Kvitsiani and his gang – and this will happen only if they surrender [their] arms – is about what kind of cells they will have in prison,” Saakashvili told reporters.
