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Putin Asserts Link Between U.S. Election and Georgia War

 

Published 8/29/2008 by Philip P. Pan and Jonathan Finer at Wash Post Elections

MOSCOW, Aug. 29 -- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Thursday that he had reason to think U.S. personnel were in the combat zone during the recent war in Georgia, adding that if confirmed, their presence suggested "someone in the United States" provoked the conflict to help one of the ca... (link)

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