C. G. Estabrook: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Robert Fisk's speculation on who's responsible for the Ashura bombings? No, not if we consider whose interests are served by the bombings in Iraq and Pakistan. The US has done similar things before (e.g., Beirut 1985), as has Israel; and we're witnessing a US-produced "civil war" in Haiti designed to produce the result the US has wanted since 1990. It's been suggested that the removals of Shevardnadze and Milosevic show the same m.o. --CGE --
I think people are WAY, WAY exaggerating the US/Soros role in Georgia. Shevy was a pro-Western leader regularly reviled in the Russian press as being obsessively anti-Moscow. I don't see anything Saakashvili doing that Shevy wasn't already doing, except that Saakashvili is being nicer to Russia (e.g. he suggested that Russia and Georgia hold joint patrols on the border with Chechnya, and denounced Shevy for having left Chechen fighters into the Pankisi Gorge). In any case, the Georgians did not need US prompting to want to get rid of Shevy; Shevy is a hated man in Georgia. He's Georgia's Yeltsin.