The information barrier in Georgia after Georgian troops attacked South Ossetia complicated the local population’s ability to understand how the events truly unfolded in South Ossetia. For over two weeks during the crisis, the Georgian intelligence had maintained control over all foreign news sources that were there.

All Russian newspapers and Internet sites, plus Russian TV that were called "Enemy TV" were completely blocked. But last month the Georgian official propaganda was dealt a very serious blow, when the country’s only Russian language newspaper "Vecherniy Tbilisi" managed to get its issue out and published an interview with Georgian scientist, Ramaz Klimiashvili.

Klimiashvili charged that "Based ion information obtained now from the Georgian Presidential Chancellery and the USA diplomatic sources based in Tbilisi, President Mikhail Saakashvili requested urgently that US send a plane for him when the Russian forces neared Tbilisi.

When this news began to spread, the government officials began to panic."

This Georgian political scientist said:"President Saakashvili wouldn’t have launched a full-scale military invasion of South Ossetia without US consent. The Georgian people still do not know the full story yet as to what was going on… but with the U being involved here, then the guilt should be on the Georgian and US governments’ conscience."

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