http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/georgia/ en-us Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:45:53 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050693/posts <p>A fallen soldier returned home to a hero’s welcome Wednesday.</p> <p>The body of Cpl. Matthew Phillips arrived Wednesday morning at 9:35 a.m. at Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport in Gainesville aboard a chartered jet from Dover Air Force Base.</p> <p>It was met by an honor guard from the U.S. Army, which placed the casket into a waiting hearse for the trip to a funeral home in Cumming where his body will lie in repose until a funeral on Saturday.</p> Gainesville Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050693/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:45:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049331/posts Specialist Matthew Philips was killed in the attack on the base in Afghanistan on Sunday, July 13. He will be laid to rest on Saturday, July 26 at 1:00 at Coal Mountain Baptist Church in Cumming, Georgia. His body will be taken from Ingram's Funeral Home, in downtown Cumming, north on Highway 9. The church is on Highway 9, the burial will be at Coal Mountain Cemetery just down the road from the church following the service. Please join me if you can to show our support for his family and our brave military by lining the road with supporters.... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049331/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:37:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049257/posts US Military near potential conflict zone. sf gate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049257/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:54:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049171/posts An Albany man who came to town for a conference was arrested on a felony charge and jailed for 18 hours because he had a gun in his hotel room. Eric Dewayne Baylis, 45, said he didn't know that the hotel was owned by the University of Georgia, which put him in violation of a state law forbidding weapons within school safety zones. His employers made the lodging arrangements and he had no idea the hotel is owned by UGA. "I actually didn't know (it) was campus property," Baylis said Thursday, soon after posting a $2,000 bond to get out... Online Athens http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049171/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:12:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046616/posts Iraqi Soldiers emplace a mortar during a class on Forward Operating Base Delta. Photo by Sgt. Daniel West. FORWARD OPERATING BASE DELTA — Iraqi Army Soldiers participated in a five-day mortar training course with the 1st Georgian Brigade. Iraqi Soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 32nd Iraqi army brigade’s first and second companies trained on mortar procedures and crew drills, culminating in a live fire exercise north of al Kut July sixth to tenth.The tone for the training program arose after IA Soldiers found two 60mm mortars in a weapons cache. The battalion brought a request to their U.S. Military Transition... Multi-National Force - Iraq http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046616/posts#comment Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:44:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045959/posts TBILISI, Georgia - The United States and Russia held rival war games Tuesday on either side of the Caucasus mountains amid simmering tensions over the fate of two rebel regions in ex-Soviet Georgia. Almost 8,000 Russian servicemen on Tuesday began anti-terror exercises across Russia's North Caucasus region, which borders Georgia, a spokesman for the Russian army told AFP. In Georgia 1,650 U.S. and Georgian servicemen began rival exercises on the formerly Russian-controlled Vaziani base, the Georgian defence ministry said. The Russian exercises were planned a year ago and "are in no way related to the U.S.-Georgian activities," Russian army spokesman... AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045959/posts#comment Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:54:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045656/posts - One thousand U.S. troops began a military training exercise in Georgia on Tuesday against a backdrop of growing friction between Georgia and neighboring Russia. Officials said the exercise, called "Immediate Response 2008," had been planned for months and was not linked to a stand-off between Moscow and Tbilisi over two Russian-backed separatists regions of Georgia. The United States is an ally of Georgia and has irritated Russia by backing Tbilisi's bid to join the NATO military alliance. reuteurs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045656/posts#comment Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:15:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045413/posts Sign of the times: Atlanta road signs to be gender neutral Complaint results in Men at Work and Men Working Ahead signs being changed to read Workers Ahead Atlanta, Georgia (14 July 2008) - Call it another sign of the times. The City of Atlanta has accepted the complaint of a women's magazine editor and will begin using gender neutral language on its road construction signs. Those signs that now read Men at Work or Men Working Ahead are being replaced or altered to read Workers Ahead. The Atlanta Public Works Commissioner agreed to the change after Cynthia Good, founder... National Union of Public and General Employess(Canada) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045413/posts#comment Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:29:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044468/posts Two of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s children are suing their brother, accusing him of wrongfully taking money from their parents' estates. Bernice King and Martin Luther King III allege that Dexter King took "substantial funds" out of Coretta Scott King's estate and "wrongfully appropriated" money from their father's estate. The suit, filed Thursday in Fulton County Superior Court, serves as a very public fissure in an iconic family that has always professed unity, particularly as questions have swirled around some of their financial dealings. In a written statement Friday, Dexter King called the suit "inappropriate and false." "I'm... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044468/posts#comment Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:44:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043499/posts MOSCOW (AFP) — Russian military jets flew over the breakaway Georgian province of South Ossetia this week in order to prevent imminent "bloodshed," the Russian foreign ministry said Thursday. "The need arose to take urgent and effective measures to prevent bloodshed and to keep the situation peaceful," the ministry said in a statement. "To determine the circumstances, Russian air force planes made a short flight over the territory of South Ossetia." The statement marked an unusual admission from Russia that it had sent military aircraft over a separatist region in Georgia. Past Georgian accusations of Russian military overflights have been... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043499/posts#comment Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:50:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043443/posts MOSCOW/TBLISI (Reuters) - Russia said on Thursday its air force fighters had flown over the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia to prevent an attack by Georgian forces. The overflight was ordered less than 24 hours before Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Georgia in a show of support for the ex-Soviet state, which wants to join NATO. Georgia denounced the flights as an unprecedented aggression and Rice also admonished Russia, saying "it needs to be a part of resolving the problem and solving the problem and not contributing to it." "The violence needs to stop and whoever is... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043443/posts#comment Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:05:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042705/posts A Pakistani man accused of killing his daughter five days after she filed for divorce to end her arranged marriage wept in court Tuesday, telling a Clayton County magistrate he is innocent. "I have done nothing wrong," Chaudhry Rashid told Chief Magistrate Daphne Walker through interpreter Younis Farhat. Farhat said Rashid speaks primarily Urdu and Punjabi. But police say Rashid, 54, used a bungee cord to strangle Sandeela Kanwal, 25, early Sunday morning in the family's Utah Drive home in Jonesboro. Rashid, who is being held without bond, told the judge he wanted to observe his Muslim beliefs in the... ajc.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042705/posts#comment Wed, 9 Jul 2008 01:42:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042647/posts U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Tuesday that Russian behaviour towards Georgia had exacerbated tensions and she urged both sides to avoid provocative actions. Reuters via Wiredispatch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042647/posts#comment Tue, 8 Jul 2008 23:20:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042644/posts Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili on Tuesday instructed police to prepare an operation to free four soldiers detained by separatists in Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia region. wiredispatch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042644/posts#comment Tue, 8 Jul 2008 23:18:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042160/posts Police are trying to determine why the victim of an alleged kidnapping lied about his identity when officers found him walking along a Gwinnett County roadside early Monday morning. A few hours after Gwinnett SWAT officers shot and killed one alleged abductor and arrested a second man in a pre-dawn confrontation at a Waffle House parking lot, a patrolling officer spotted the victim, 34-year-old David Juan Arce-Flores, walking along U.S. 29. AJC.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042160/posts#comment Tue, 8 Jul 2008 01:20:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041436/posts TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgian officials said five explosions went off on both sides of the de-facto border between Georgia and its breakaway region of Abkhazia on Sunday, in the latest sign of growing tensions between Tbilisi and separatists. A series of incidents in the past week, involving bombs, mortar shelling and shootouts have been matched by sharp condemnations from Moscow and Tbilisi, as both sides blame each other for thawing what had been frozen conflicts reuteurs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041436/posts#comment Sun, 6 Jul 2008 14:12:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040961/posts TSKHINVALI, Georgia: Russia accused Georgia of “an open act of aggression” on Friday after the separatist South Ossetia region said Georgian forces had killed two people in a mortar and grenade attack. The Russian-backed separatist administration called up military reservists and put its security forces on alert in response to an overnight clash in which, they said, Georgian forces fired at their capital, Tskhinvali, and nearby villages. Georgia’s Abkhazia and South Ossetia broke from central rule during wars in the 1990s after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Russia, which has peacekeepers in both unrecognised regions, has provided moral and... the news http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040961/posts#comment Sat, 5 Jul 2008 03:53:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040676/posts Separatists in Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia region say at least two people were killed when Georgian forces started shelling the region overnight. Eleven others were wounded in the bombardment, officials said. Shooting broke out after the shelling. South Ossetia's breakaway government ordered a full mobilisation in response, a spokesman said. bbc http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040676/posts#comment Fri, 4 Jul 2008 12:56:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2038683/posts Wait a second. I distinctly recall Obama’s campaign chief telling us in this story, Obama Writes Off Florida and Ohio: Concedes Must Win Some Republican States, that Georgia was in play this year. It would be interesting to see how much money Obama actually spends in GA. Maybe it would be better spent defending Blue states rather than trying to flip Red ones. The Patriot Room http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2038683/posts#comment Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:08:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037308/posts Georgia has made an offer to Russia by which the two would divide Georgia's separatist Abkhazia region into zones of influence while Georgia would renounce its NATO goals, a Russian newspaper reported on Friday. The report in the Kommersant broadsheet cited unnamed officials in the Russian foreign ministry and in Georgia's leadership and came after Abkhaz separatist chief Sergei Bagapsh held talks in Moscow on Thursday. Georgia, the paper said, was making a complex set of proposals by which Georgia would extend its control further north into Abkhazia, as far as the Kodori River. Georgian refugees from fighting in the... AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037308/posts#comment Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:18:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032537/posts TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgian police detained 14 Russian peacekeepers on Tuesday near its breakaway region of Abkhazia and Georgia said they were found transporting weapons without permission, a charge Moscow denied. Ties between Moscow and Tbilisi have deteriorated sharply in recent months after Russia bolstered economic support for Abkhazian separatists and increased its peacekeeping presence Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032537/posts#comment Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:02:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2027415/posts ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Russia on Friday condemned moves by Georgia to join NATO, saying they could lead to bloodshed in the former Soviet republic's breakaway areas of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. "We reiterated our strong interest in seeing those conflicts resolved," Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters after talks between the Russian and Georgian leaders at an informal summit of leaders from the ex-Soviet Union. "We stated this could not be achieved by moving Georgia artificially into NATO because this would lead to another spiral of confrontation in the area." Lavrov said Russian President Dmitry Medvedev had pressed... reuteurs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2027415/posts#comment Sat, 7 Jun 2008 00:55:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026946/posts On May 26th, the United Nations did something it very rarely does. It took a stand. When that happens you know that some country has been caught dead to rights doing something so outrageous that even the cowardly bureaucrats at the UN were compelled to speak out against it. No country in the world is better at committing acts that outrageous than Russia is. In its May 26th report, after a formal investigation, the UN concluded that Russia had committed an act of war against Georgia when it shot down a Georgian reconnaissance aircraft as it flew over Georgian airspace... Publius Pundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026946/posts#comment Fri, 6 Jun 2008 10:42:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2024472/posts I returned from vacation this morning and just had to share this with you guys. The first leg of our trip was a visit to beautiful Savannah, GA. While trying to get my bearings upon our arrival, I made a wrong turn and ended up in a neighborhood that ... I would not normally visit. However, we spotted this interesting sight and I made it a point to get a shot of it while leaving this area. This is located at the corner of Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd and Victory. Now, some might simply see this as just... Flickr http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2024472/posts#comment Sun, 1 Jun 2008 18:32:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022536/posts DALTON, Ga. — Walking the streets of East Dalton, Edwin Cuna pushes a cart with “Paleteria La Reyna” stenciled in red letters on its side. He rings bells that beckon children from home to search for their favorite flavored icicles. Near where the 16-year-old peddles his paletas, stores sell everything from pan dulce, quinceañera and wedding cakes, fresh meat, boots and every type of Mexican food — most with signs in Spanish and owned by Hispanics. With the city’s influx of Hispanic immigrants in the 1990s, the East Side of Dalton has changed from a quiet, mostly American-born community into... Chattanooga Times Free Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022536/posts#comment Wed, 28 May 2008 18:00:04 GMT