Georgia president denies Israel halted military aid

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"Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili denied on Wednesday night that Israel has suspended its military aid to the country. "I haven't heard anything about that, and I haven't had time to think about that issue for some days," he told Haaretz.

Saakashvili said he is aware of problems with supplying the pilotless drones that his army ordered from Israeli companies, but not of the stopping of any other shipments of military aid.

"The Israeli weapons have proved very effective," he said at a press conference at his office. When asked whether the Israeli arms played a role in the military successes he claimed the Georgian army had achieved, he joked: "Are you asking me as a representative of Elbit or of Israel Aerospace Industries?"

To a reporter's question about Jews who have fled the fighting and come to Israel, he said: "We have two Israeli cabinet ministers, one deals with war (Defense Minister David Kezerashvili), and the other with negotiations (State Minister for Territorial Integration Temur Yakobashvili), and that is the Israeli involvement here: Both war and peace are in the hands of Israeli Jews."

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[bemildred]

1. He sure likes to talk to the press.

I rest my case: "Both war and peace are in the hands of Israeli Jews".

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2. Georgian president's Russia claims raise eyebrows

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"It's the kind of claim that could provoke a dangerous Kremlin riposte: The Pentagon is readying to take over airports and ports in the former Soviet republic of Georgia.

The claim, by Georgia's U.S.-backed president, Mikhail Saakashvili, on Wednesday was swiftly denied by officials in Washington, who firmly denied any such designs on Georgian soil.

It was the latest in a string of overstated pronouncements by the charismatic, American-educated Georgian leader that are further fueling tensions with Moscow. His comments — along with a stream of biased, conflicting and often false information coming from both Russian and Georgian officials — have made it hard to figure out what is really happening in the world's latest hotspot."

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"Saakashvili has been conducting daily interviews in his fluent English on international television networks and making frequent televised speeches at home."

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[rockymountaindem]

4. Huh?

[LeftishBrit]

5. I echo that huh?