comment is free  Sending the wrong signal  Twelve days after
they first rolled in, Russian tanks are still in Georgia and
show no signs of pulling out. A small column left the strategic
town of Gori yesterday, but Russian troops were still in the
Black Sea port of Poti, taking 20 Georgian servicemen at
gunpoint, and still encamped at Igoeti, 27 miles from the
capital, Tbilisi. Nor is this likely to change. Having signed a
ceasefire agreement which requires it to pull back to the
position it occupied before the Georgian attack on Tskhinvali on
August 7, Russia continues to dismantle Georgia's military
machine. Russian forces have not only occupied the areas of
South Ossetia which were previously under Georgian control but
drilled a large "security zone" around the enclave, occupying
villages like Igoeti which were wholly Georgian.  Every day this
occupation continues, Russia undermines its own case - which was
to stop Georgia's ethnic cleansing of Ossetia. Every day Russian
tanks rumble around Georgia, or grea