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Main entry into gori controlled by russia

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 Picture: (AFP/Marco Longari)
Georgian residents from the flashpoint city of Gori pass in front of a Russian armored personnel carrier. The world awaited the promised start of a Russian pullout of combat troops from Georgia today.

Russian troops today controlled the main entry into the Georgian city of Gori, amid expectations that Moscow was to start pulling out its forces.

Two Russian soldiers at a checkpoint did not allow journalists to enter the town, just 60 kilometres west of Tbilisi.
A military truck and an armored personnel carrier could also be seen at the site. A convoy of four vehicles from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was however allowed through the checkpoint.

An AFP correspondent saw a light Russian military presence on the road into Gori from the crossroads at Igoeti, 40 kilometres west of Tbilisi, including a half dozen Russian APCs and trucks.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev assured his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy on Sunday that Russian regular forces "will begin withdrawing" from today.

MRN-AFP

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Israels new strategy sabotage attack the global justice movement

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By Ali Abunimah

(source: The Electronic Intifada)

An extraordinary series of articles, reports and presentations by Israel’s influential Reut Institute has identified the global movement for justice, equality and peace as an "existential threat" to Israel and called on the Israeli government to direct substantial resources to "attack" and possibly engage in criminal "sabotage" of this movement in what Reut believes are its various international "hubs" in London, Madrid, Toronto, the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond.

The Reut Institute’s analyses hold that Israel’s traditional strategic doctrine — which views threats to the state’s existence in primarily military terms, to be met with a military response — is badly out of date. Rather, what Israel faces today is a combined threat from a "Resistance Network" and a "Delegitimization Network."

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