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| Caucasus |
| Russia, Georgia wrangle over who will oust Chechen rebels |
| 2002-09-07 |
| Russia's interior minister said he reached an agreement with Georgian officials yesterday to conduct joint operations in the Pankisi Gorge after months of tension over the crime-infested area bordering Chechnya, but a Georgian official said no Russian forces would enter the gorge. Doesn't sound like much of an agreement, if one side agrees on it and the other one doesn't... Russian Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov said he and his Georgian counterpart had agreed to conduct a joint search for militants in the gorge. But Georgian Interior Minister Koba Narchemashvili said, ''We can bring order [to the gorge] ourselves.'' It's worked well so far, hasn't it? And the Russers have done a bang-up job of keeping the Bad Guys from swarming over the border. On the other hand, combining the two might not result in much more than they've been getting done. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |