{"id":1335,"date":"2006-01-22T18:22:51","date_gmt":"2006-01-23T00:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2006-01-22T18:23:13","modified_gmt":"2006-01-23T00:23:13","slug":"sabotage-suspected-in-georgia-gas-pipeline-explosions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1335","title":{"rendered":"Sabotage Suspected in Georgia Gas Pipeline Explosions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suspicious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/newsitems\/200601\/s1552878.htm\">explosions in southern Russia<\/a> signal some very cold nights ahead in neighboring Georgia and Armenia, and the expected finger-pointing is well under way.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Russian authorities have launched a criminal investigation into a series of explosions that tore through two gas pipelines and cut off supplies to the former Soviet states of Georgia and Armenia.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia&#8217;s President Mikhail Saakashvili has accused neighbouring Russia of sabotage.<\/p>\n<p>The explosions in southern Russia severed two gas pipelines and an electricity supply line.<\/p>\n<p>Gas exports have been cut to Georgia and Armenia as both countries endure an unusually cold winter.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia has enough gas to last just one more day and Armenia has been forced to dig into its own meagre reserves.<\/p>\n<p>Russian officials say it could take several days to repair the damage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay, everybody suspects sabotage.  The key issue is who committed the sabotage.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Investigators believe the explosions were acts of sabotage and have blamed anti-Russian insurgents.<\/p>\n<p>But Georgia&#8217;s President, the western-leaning Mikhail Saakashvili, has accused Russia of being behind the blasts.<\/p>\n<p>The President believes the incident is linked to a dispute over recent gas price rises.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It should be interesting to watch the developments in this matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suspicious explosions in southern Russia signal some very cold nights ahead in neighboring Georgia and Armenia, and the expected finger-pointing is well under way. Russian authorities have launched a criminal investigation into a series of explosions that tore through two gas pipelines and cut off supplies to the former Soviet states of Georgia and Armenia. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-central-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}