Numerous conspiracy theories on the Caucasus crisis are zipping round cyberspace. The latest from from Scott Lucas at Birmingham University:
it turns out that Dick Cheney’s deputy assistant for national security affairs, Joseph Wood, was hanging out in Tbilisi just before Georgia’s assault upon South Ossetia on 7 August. The official explanation is that Wood was helping set up Cheney’s visit to Georgia, along with stops in the Ukraine and Azerbaijan, in the first week of September. Hmmm…
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