<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ef938747-426f-46e1-a65b-a89d215e8e14/ABF59D7A-2B07-4879-AC83-F56C1E436A7F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/putins-determined-to-kill-me-says-georgian-leader-1854789.html" href="http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/putins-determined-to-kill-me-says-georgian-leader-1854789.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.independent.ie</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/putins-determined-to-kill-me-says-georgian-leader-1854789.html"><H1>Putin's determined to kill me, says Georgian leader</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/putins-determined-to-kill-me-says-georgian-leader-1854789.html"><P><A href="http://www.independent.ie/topics/Republic+of+Georgia" title="Republic of Georgia">GEORGIA</A>'S pro-Western president said yesterday that <A href="http://www.independent.ie/topics/Vladimir+Putin" title="Vladimir Putin">Vladimir Putin</A> remained determined to kill him as part of ambitions to restore <A href="http://www.independent.ie/topics/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</A>'s former Soviet empire.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/putins-determined-to-kill-me-says-georgian-leader-1854789.html"><P>A year after the war between the two countries, <A href="http://www.independent.ie/topics/Mikhail+Saakashvili" title="Mikhail Saakashvili">Mikhail Saakashvili</A> said that Georgia's survival as an independent state threatened the Russian prime minister's reputation as a strong ruler. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/putins-determined-to-kill-me-says-georgian-leader-1854789.html"><P>Only continued support from the <A href="http://www.independent.ie/topics/United+States" title="United States">US</A> and <A href="http://www.independent.ie/topics/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</A> prevented a Russian invasion to install a puppet regime, he warned.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/putins-determined-to-kill-me-says-georgian-leader-1854789.html"><P> With tensions rising along the front line between Georgian and Russian troops in the breakaway territories of <A href="http://www.independent.ie/topics/South+Ossetia" title="South Ossetia">South Ossetia</A> and <A href="http://www.independent.ie/topics/Abkhazia" title="Abkhazia">Abkhazia</A>, Mr Saakashvili said <A href="http://www.independent.ie/topics/Moscow+Kremlin" title="Moscow Kremlin">the Kremlin</A> was testing the resolve of the West.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/putins-determined-to-kill-me-says-georgian-leader-1854789.html"><P> "Putin has to break our neck. He has to fulfil his solemn pledge to hang me by a certain part of the body," he said. Mr Putin told <A href="http://www.independent.ie/topics/Nicolas+Sarkozy" title="Nicolas Sarkozy">President Nicolas Sarkozy</A> of <A href="http://www.independent.ie/topics/France" title="France">France</A> during negotiations to end the war last August that he wanted to hang Mr Saakashvili "by the balls". </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/ABF59D7A-2B07-4879-AC83-F56C1E436A7F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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