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Titolo: Russia accuses Georgia over missile "stunt"

Fra l'altro perche' i georgiani hanno distrutto il missile? non sarebbe
stata una prova? E i tracciati radar quando li fanno vedere?
Russia accuses Georgia over missile "stunt"
By Conor Sweeney
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Georgian allegations that Russia dropped a missile on
its soil are aimed at discrediting Moscow, Russia's most senior soldier
said on Thursday as the United States appeared to back Georgia in the row.
The one-ton missile, which landed in a farmer's field on Monday but did
not detonate, re-ignited simmering tensions between Russia and its
pro-Western neighbor, Georgia, and has now also drawn in Washington.
In the most strongly worded statement so far from a Russian official, Yuri
Baluyevsky, chief of staff of the Russian military, suggested Tbilisi had
staged the missile incident itself to discredit Russia. 
"I am convinced that this is a provocation on the part of Georgia,"
Itar-Tass news agency quoted Baluyevsky as saying. "It is a provocation
against ... Russia as a whole."
Georgia has asked for a special session of the United Nations Security
Council to debate what it described as an "act of aggression" against it.
The United States, which provides military and financial aid to Georgia,
initially issued a cautious reaction, urging both sides to tone down their
rhetoric.
But U.S. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack was more explicit on
Wednesday, saying the United States "condemns the August 6 rocket attack
against Georgia".   
"We praise Georgia's continuing restraint in the face of this air attack
and call for the urgent clarification of the facts surrounding this
incident," he said.
The missile incident has caused a flurry of diplomatic activity. Russia's
Foreign Ministry said telephone conversations had taken place about it
with the U.S. State Department and Europe's main security and rights
watchdog, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
MOSCOW ORBIT
Moscow and Tbilisi have been locked in dispute since U.S.-educated lawyer
Mikhail Saakashvili was swept to power four years ago and assertively
pulled his state of five million people out of Moscow's orbit. 
Following spats over trade and spying allegations, Moscow has banned
imports of Georgian wine and mineral water, two major revenue earners, and
cut off air, sea and postal links with its neighbor.
Georgia's two breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia are also a
source of friction. Moscow provides financial and moral support to the
separatists, aid Tbilisi alleges is aimed at undermining Georgian
sovereignty.
The missile, which Georgia said was fired by a Russian jet trespassing in
its airspace, landed near South Ossetia.
In Moscow, Lieutenant-General Igor Khvorov, the air force chief of staff,
flatly denied any Russian role in the missile incident.
"It's very hard to talk about things that never happened," Khvorov told a
news conference. "We have enough training grounds of our own. I repeat: we
made no flights whatsoever, and as for the rest, it is just sheer
political speculation."
(Additional reporting by David Morgan in Washington and Dmitry Solovyov in
Moscow) 
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 Fra l'altro perche' i georgiani hanno distrutto il missile?
Fonte della notizia ?
M.

 Fra l'altro perche' i georgiani hanno distrutto il missile?
Seriozha, questa notizia non si trova da nessuna parte. Assieme a
quella dei due aerei che diventavano uno, sembrerebbe tanto un
tentativo di disinformacija da seconda elementare :-)
M.

 non sarebbe stata una prova? E i tracciati radar quando li fanno vedere?
non posso credere che tu sia così fanatico di Putin da credere alle
balle russe...senza speranza, veramente, se non capisci il piano per
la Georgia...