Tyrone Constitution



“We were not made for this,
Neither for the taking of our own,
Nor the darkening of the light.
For this, earth's men and women were not made.
And now,
In love and hope,
To the suffering and the threatened
We pledge the living of our days."

By Shaun Walker in Tbilisi and Anne Penketh
Independent.co.uk
Saturday, 16 August 2008

A senior Russian general has revived fears of a new Cold War by threatening Poland with a possible nuclear strike, as the President of Georgia bowed to the inevitable and signed a ceasefire the terms of which were dictated by Moscow.

General Anatoly Nogovitsyn, Russia's deputy chief of staff, reflected the Kremlin's fury at an agreement reached on Thursday between the United States and Poland, which is to host part of a US missile defence shield that has been fiercely opposed by Moscow. It "cannot go unpunished", General Nogovitsyn said in Moscow yesterday.

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