NEWS: Georgia 'shelling South Ossetia'

The leader of Georgia's breakaway province of South Ossetia President Eduard Kokoity, Has said it has begun firing on one city and several towns as reported by Russian news agency Interfax.And two people have been reported to be killed.



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Looks like to me just built up tension and there letting of steam I�m not up-to-date on the relationship between Ossetians and Georgians would like to hear some of your comments on it. I had a qwick look over some old bbc news posts just seems bad blood but both want to reunite with russia.







[edit on 29-7-2004 by SE7EN]

[edit on 29-7-2004 by SE7EN]

anyone know if the BTC (Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan) pipeline goes through any of these disputed regions?

-raven

Tblisi proper isn't too far from South Ossetia, I think. Georgia is not that big a place. I'd guess that the BTC comes within 50 miles of south ossetia, as it passes through Tblisi.

DE

So could this out burst have been over oil of gas what kind of pipe line is it do you know. I was reading new scientist or something the outher day and spotted how some russian oil owner is like the richest person to own x ammount of oil might have somethig todo with that who knows.

[edit on 30-7-2004 by SE7EN]

i don't think this has much to do with the oil pipeline but is more along the line of what you stated, just built up tensions in a disputed region.

as far as the pipeline goes it taps one of the largest untouched energy reserves on the planet, the caspian sea basin. the pipeline, to be completed in 2005, will carry 1 million barrels of oil per day through azerbaijan, georgia, and turkey, to tankers in the mediterranean sea which will bring oil to the world markets for an estimated 40 years. the pipeline is being built by 11 international partners, led by UK based BP. this is a strategic pipeline to the west, tapping into previously only russian and iranian resources.

oh ya and it's built completely underground as well.

-raven

Thats pretty impresive thanks for the information on that Rav!
think ill have a look into bp website and google some more.

More news related to the fighting in Georgia reports deaths in clash""Bandits" killed them as they defended a road leading to ethnic Georgian villages, Mikhail Saakashvili said." at least 28 people have also been injured.



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