"The Technique of a Coup d'État" by John Laughland

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When Edward Shevardnadze, the president of Georgia, was overthrown in a what CNN dubbed "the Roses Revolution" (on 22nd November 2003) I was in Croatia. And just before the "election" of his successor (on 4th January 2004) Mikheil Saakashvili, the American-educated lawyer who is his former Minister of Justice, I was in Serbia. The Balkans, as it turns out, are a perfect place from which to observe the developments in the Caucasus because the covert operations which are currently being deployed in Georgia have already been used with devastating effect across South-East Europe.

There can be no doubt that the change of regime in Tbilisi is the result of US secret service operations. The allegations that the elections on 2nd November were flawed was based exclusively on exit polls conducted by an American "polling agency"; the students activists from the "Kmara!" organisation are modelled on, and trained by, their US-backed opposite numbers in Serbia, Otpor. The two groups even have the same logo, presumably so as to give their sponsors some economies of scale when it comes to printing costs.<1> <http://www.sandersresearch.com/Sanders/NewsManager/ShowNewsGen.aspx?NewsID= 522#_ftn1 > Everything down to the storming of the parliament (Tbilisi, 22nd November 2002; Belgrade 5th October 2000) and the visit of the Russian foreign minister, Igor Ivanov, to ensure the hand-over of power, followed exactly the same carefully choreographed plan. Moreover, the identity of the choreographer is not difficult to establish: the last posting of Richard Miles, the current US ambassador in Tbilisi, was Belgrade.

While in Serbia, I came across unexpected confirmation of the extent of secret service involvement in the politics of that country. Tim Marshall, a reporter for Sky TV, has published a book in Serbia on the period 1998 - 2000, i.e. the Kosovo war and the overthrow of Miloševic. Marshall is evidently very proud of his connections with the secret services, especially the British ones, because his book, entitled Shadowplay, is a detailed account of their activities, which are presented as the key factors in the political events he describes. The value of his account is all the greater because Marshall, like all other TV reporters, supports the New World Order view that Slobodan Miloševic was evil and that Nato was right to attack Yugoslavia in 1999.

more: http://globalresearch.ca/articles/LAU402A.html

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