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Georgia Alleged Presidential Assassination Plot
Georgia, it’s got a little of everything.
Note, Abashidze is the leader of Ajaria or Adzharia, same place, different spelling.
Are these accusations of an assassination plot part and parcel of the set of tools Tbilisi had been using against Adzharia?
The spiritual leaders of IDU-IPT who have in effect become an al-Qaeda subsidiary in Central Asia are nurturing plans to overthrow constitutional power in the countries of the region.
#msg-2721956
Is Abashidze’s ambition to secure the presidency of Georgia part of the IDU-IPT conspiracy or is his plan independent of the terrorists’ coalition?
Will the United States be as attentive to Georgia now that the head of the company running Kazakhstan's giant Tengiz oil field said on Friday he hopes to rely on a pipeline through Russia as output nearly doubles in the next two years -- spurning advances to use a pipeline from the Caucasus to Turkey that has been heavily backed by the U?. - that Mar 28, 2004
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Is this why Saakashvili is turning toward Russia? Georgian Defense Minister Gela Bezhuashvili told reporters on Saturday that Georgia was ready to cooperate with Russia in military and technological spheres on the same terms as other CIS countries. Bezhuashvili didn’t rule out the possibility of Russian arms supplies to Georgia but pointed to some problems existing in this issue. - TBILISI, April 3 (Itar-Tass)
http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=646611&PageNum=0
I wonder if Putin even knows who to back in this instance Washington’s and Soros’ puppet, Saakashvili, or his old friend Abashidze of Adzharia who might be linked to the IDU-IPT and could turn Georgia into a Muslim terrorist haven festering next door to the Russia/Chechnya problem? -Am
Georgia-Adzharia tensions high again, Moscow worried
03.04.2004, 01.42
MOSCOW, April 3 (Itar-Tass) -- New acrimonious exchanges are fraught with the risk of upsetting the trend towards greater understanding between Georgia’s central authorities and the leadership of the defiant Adzharian autonomy.
State Security Minister Gigi Ugulava told a news briefing in Tbilisi on Friday Batumi had been hatching a plot to assassinate Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili.
On the list of the plotters he mentioned Adzharia’s State Security Minister Soso Gogitidze, his first deputy Gogi Kupreishvili and Deputy Interior Minister David Bakuridze.
Ugulava said a group of six conspirators had been created for the assassination. Four of them – Georgy and Badri Saginadze, Edvard Mskhiladze and Leri Beridze have been detained in various cities of Georgia. The other two – Gocha Siamashvili and Dzhambul Guchashvili are in Adzharia in hiding, the Georgian State Security Minister said.
“We are hoping they will be detained in the near future,” he said.
In response Adzharian leader Aslan Abashidze said such accusations were part and parcel of the set of tools Tbilisi had been using against Adzharia.
“Nobody in his right mind will believe this,” Abashidze told Tass over the telephone, “We are not connected with any militant groups or criminality. Tbilisi should look for aggressive armies at home, and not in Adzharia.”
The Adzharian leader said “due to threats from the Tbilisi authorities” Batumi has been unable to enter into negotiations with Tbilisi and is prepared to introduce a state of emergency in the autonomy again in case of a military threat.
“Negotiations and threats are incompatible. A negotiating process is possible only when there is the reciprocal desire of both sides. We do have such a wish. Tbilisi, apparently, has none.”
About the Georgian president’s statement criminal armies were being formed in the territories of Adzharia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia Abashidze said this was yet another reason for Adzharia to consider the introduction of a state of emergency, canceled during the parliamentary elections.
“As soon as there are reports that a considerable number of Georgian military has been alerted or moved close to the Adzharian border, we shall declare a state of emergency again,” Abashidze said.
Moscow has responded with great concern to the Georgian State Security Ministry’s statements it has evidence of a plot by the top Adzharian leaders to assassinate President Mikhail Saakashvili.
“The current events in Georgia look very much like a witch-hunt,” a source in the Russian law enforcement said. “I won’t be surprised, if show trials of alleged spies follow.”
In the meantime, the Georgian Central Electoral Commission has made a decision to annul the returns from parliamentary elections in two of the six constituencies of the Adzharian autonomy.
Georgian CEC chief Zurab Chiaberashvili has said the measure followed massive violations during the March 28 election, which made it impossible to draw a real picture of the voting and affected the poll results.” Re-elections there are scheduled for April 18.
The representatives of Aslan Abashidze’s revival party have lodged a protest with the Georgian CEC.
“The CEC can consider violations in this or that constituency, but a decision to annul election returns can be made only by a court of law,” one of the CEC members, Zurab Abashidze said.
The current aggravation of relations between Tbilisi and Batumi began when the Georgian presidential motorcade was not allowed to enter Adzharia in early March. The autonomy’s authorities claimed that there were too many armed people in the presidential entourage. In response Saakashvili declared an economic blockade of Adzharia, whose authorities imposed a state of emergency in a retaliatory move.
The conflict subsided somewhat after Saakashvili and Abashidze met in Batumi in person. The Adzharian authorities made a number of concessions and Abashidze’s Revival party agreed to take part in the parliamentary election. However, according to official election returns it has failed to clear the 7-percent hurdle – the minimum required to have seats in the Georgian parliament.
http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=645113&PageNum=0
Reference:
Ajaria, a semi-tropical, mostly Muslim province in the south-west of Georgia, has, under Abashidzes rule, enjoyed de facto political independence from Tbilisi for the past ten years, earning funds from customs duties levied on goods crossing the border into neighboring Turkey.
With a population of 450, 000, the region is considered to be much richer and better governed than the rest of Georgia. It has never before demanded de jure independence. On the contrary, Mr. Abashidze had plans to run for the post of Georgias president.
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:V_EZNbMFYkYJ:www.mn.ru/english/issue.php%3F2004-10-2+ajaria+musli...
Georgia, it’s got a little of everything.
Note, Abashidze is the leader of Ajaria or Adzharia, same place, different spelling.
Are these accusations of an assassination plot part and parcel of the set of tools Tbilisi had been using against Adzharia?
The spiritual leaders of IDU-IPT who have in effect become an al-Qaeda subsidiary in Central Asia are nurturing plans to overthrow constitutional power in the countries of the region.
#msg-2721956
Is Abashidze’s ambition to secure the presidency of Georgia part of the IDU-IPT conspiracy or is his plan independent of the terrorists’ coalition?
Will the United States be as attentive to Georgia now that the head of the company running Kazakhstan's giant Tengiz oil field said on Friday he hopes to rely on a pipeline through Russia as output nearly doubles in the next two years -- spurning advances to use a pipeline from the Caucasus to Turkey that has been heavily backed by the U?. - that Mar 28, 2004
#msg-2711177
Is this why Saakashvili is turning toward Russia? Georgian Defense Minister Gela Bezhuashvili told reporters on Saturday that Georgia was ready to cooperate with Russia in military and technological spheres on the same terms as other CIS countries. Bezhuashvili didn’t rule out the possibility of Russian arms supplies to Georgia but pointed to some problems existing in this issue. - TBILISI, April 3 (Itar-Tass)
http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=646611&PageNum=0
I wonder if Putin even knows who to back in this instance Washington’s and Soros’ puppet, Saakashvili, or his old friend Abashidze of Adzharia who might be linked to the IDU-IPT and could turn Georgia into a Muslim terrorist haven festering next door to the Russia/Chechnya problem? -Am
Georgia-Adzharia tensions high again, Moscow worried
03.04.2004, 01.42
MOSCOW, April 3 (Itar-Tass) -- New acrimonious exchanges are fraught with the risk of upsetting the trend towards greater understanding between Georgia’s central authorities and the leadership of the defiant Adzharian autonomy.
State Security Minister Gigi Ugulava told a news briefing in Tbilisi on Friday Batumi had been hatching a plot to assassinate Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili.
On the list of the plotters he mentioned Adzharia’s State Security Minister Soso Gogitidze, his first deputy Gogi Kupreishvili and Deputy Interior Minister David Bakuridze.
Ugulava said a group of six conspirators had been created for the assassination. Four of them – Georgy and Badri Saginadze, Edvard Mskhiladze and Leri Beridze have been detained in various cities of Georgia. The other two – Gocha Siamashvili and Dzhambul Guchashvili are in Adzharia in hiding, the Georgian State Security Minister said.
“We are hoping they will be detained in the near future,” he said.
In response Adzharian leader Aslan Abashidze said such accusations were part and parcel of the set of tools Tbilisi had been using against Adzharia.
“Nobody in his right mind will believe this,” Abashidze told Tass over the telephone, “We are not connected with any militant groups or criminality. Tbilisi should look for aggressive armies at home, and not in Adzharia.”
The Adzharian leader said “due to threats from the Tbilisi authorities” Batumi has been unable to enter into negotiations with Tbilisi and is prepared to introduce a state of emergency in the autonomy again in case of a military threat.
“Negotiations and threats are incompatible. A negotiating process is possible only when there is the reciprocal desire of both sides. We do have such a wish. Tbilisi, apparently, has none.”
About the Georgian president’s statement criminal armies were being formed in the territories of Adzharia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia Abashidze said this was yet another reason for Adzharia to consider the introduction of a state of emergency, canceled during the parliamentary elections.
“As soon as there are reports that a considerable number of Georgian military has been alerted or moved close to the Adzharian border, we shall declare a state of emergency again,” Abashidze said.
Moscow has responded with great concern to the Georgian State Security Ministry’s statements it has evidence of a plot by the top Adzharian leaders to assassinate President Mikhail Saakashvili.
“The current events in Georgia look very much like a witch-hunt,” a source in the Russian law enforcement said. “I won’t be surprised, if show trials of alleged spies follow.”
In the meantime, the Georgian Central Electoral Commission has made a decision to annul the returns from parliamentary elections in two of the six constituencies of the Adzharian autonomy.
Georgian CEC chief Zurab Chiaberashvili has said the measure followed massive violations during the March 28 election, which made it impossible to draw a real picture of the voting and affected the poll results.” Re-elections there are scheduled for April 18.
The representatives of Aslan Abashidze’s revival party have lodged a protest with the Georgian CEC.
“The CEC can consider violations in this or that constituency, but a decision to annul election returns can be made only by a court of law,” one of the CEC members, Zurab Abashidze said.
The current aggravation of relations between Tbilisi and Batumi began when the Georgian presidential motorcade was not allowed to enter Adzharia in early March. The autonomy’s authorities claimed that there were too many armed people in the presidential entourage. In response Saakashvili declared an economic blockade of Adzharia, whose authorities imposed a state of emergency in a retaliatory move.
The conflict subsided somewhat after Saakashvili and Abashidze met in Batumi in person. The Adzharian authorities made a number of concessions and Abashidze’s Revival party agreed to take part in the parliamentary election. However, according to official election returns it has failed to clear the 7-percent hurdle – the minimum required to have seats in the Georgian parliament.
http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=645113&PageNum=0
Reference:
Ajaria, a semi-tropical, mostly Muslim province in the south-west of Georgia, has, under Abashidzes rule, enjoyed de facto political independence from Tbilisi for the past ten years, earning funds from customs duties levied on goods crossing the border into neighboring Turkey.
With a population of 450, 000, the region is considered to be much richer and better governed than the rest of Georgia. It has never before demanded de jure independence. On the contrary, Mr. Abashidze had plans to run for the post of Georgias president.
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:V_EZNbMFYkYJ:www.mn.ru/english/issue.php%3F2004-10-2+ajaria+musli...
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