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Tuesday, December 07, 2010

Chronic Spy Mania

Georgia arrested 6 people for being spies who carried out acts of sabotage in Georgia.

The Russians are no doubt miffed about this second bust:

Zguladze said the six, four men and two women, are accused of staging an explosion outside the U.S. Embassy in September, that caused no injuries, and several other blasts, including last month's blast outside the Labor Party's offices in Tbilisi that killed a woman.

Speaking in a televised statement Tuesday, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili praised the Interior Ministry for the bust. "We have managed to prevent very serious terror attacks," he said.

The Russian Foreign Ministry made no immediate comment. The Georgian authorities' announcement last month of the arrests of 13 suspected Russian spies drew an angry statement from Moscow, which fumed about Saakashvili's "chronic spy mania."

Seriously! Where do the Georgians get these strange ideas about Russian hostility?