NYTimes: Georgia Offers Fresh Evidence on Wars Start presented by Daniel Wicharz

Please also add comments to our blog: united-georgia.blogspot.com ***visit also our web page fahlerfantastica.freehostia.com ... *** 16.09.08 15:53 NYTimes: ''A new front has opened between Georgia and Russia, now over which side was the aggressor whose military activities early last month ignited the lopsided five-day war. At issue is new intelligence, inconclusive on its own, that nonetheless paints a more complicated picture of the critical last hours before war broke out. Georgia has released intercepted telephone calls purporting to show that part of a Russian armored regiment crossed into the separatist enclave of South Ossetia nearly a full day before Georgias attack on the capital, Tskhinvali, late on Aug. 7. Georgia is trying to counter accusations that the long-simmering standoff over South Ossetia, which borders Russia, tilted to war only after it attacked Tskhinvali. Georgia regards the enclave as its sovereign territory. The intercepts circulated last week among intelligence agencies in the United States and Europe, part of a Georgian government effort to persuade the West and opposition voices at home that Georgia was under invasion and attacked defensively. Georgia argues that as a tiny and vulnerable nation allied with the West, it deserves extensive military and political support. Georgia also provided audio files of the intercepts along with English translations to The New York Times, which made its own independent translation from the original Ossetian ...

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