[maquiladora]

Tensions still high it seems.

[maquiladora]

AFP confirms :

Russian forces have “changed their mind” about leaving the flashpoint Georgian town of Gori and are not withdrawing, a Georgian interior ministry spokesman told AFP.

“All night they said they would leave and now they have changed their mind. Georgian forces have stopped (going to Gori) to avoid clashes with the Russians,” Interior Ministry spokesman Shota Utiashvili told AFP.

An AFP reporter on the road about 30 kilometres from the town witnessed from 15 to 20 Georgian armoured personnel carriers go through a police checkpoint towards Gori.

But he then saw them pulled up by the side of the road a little further on.

Mr Utiashvili said earlier that Georgian forces would retake control of Gori after a pledge from the Russian military that its forces would begin to withdraw.

http://news.sbs.com.au/worldnewsaustralia/russian_forces_39still_in_gori39_554694

[maquiladora]

BBC : Explosions heard in Gori.

[Leisler]

We need to send the Georgians a hundred Stinger man portable anti-aircraft missiles, and about five hundred of these, Javelin anti-tanks. The remaining Russians can walk out, over the mountains, and through the passes, back to Russia.

[Travis McGee]

[ketelone]

Well, i wonder if the Georgian soldiers pointing guns at the Russians had anything to do at all with their appearing ready for combat.... has everyone grown dumb?