World press on Georgian foreign policy (September 26, 2014)"ISIS on Georgia’s Mind" is an article which appeared in the Daily Beast on September 26. "It’s not surprising that the United States is looking for Georgia’s help fighting this developing terrorist menace. This country sitting between Turkey and the troubled Russian provinces of Dagestan and Chechnya is home to scores of young Muslims who’ve joined the international jihad today. And Georgia would be very interested in helping the U.S. and Arab military forces to win the struggle against ISIS. But that doesn’t mean it will.""Earlier this week word leaked that Georgia had offered to host training camps for the supposedly moderate Syrian rebels that the United States wants to see trained to fight ISIS on the one hand, and eventually the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad on the other. But as soon as this development was reported in Reuters, the New York Times and Foreign Policy, Georgian officials attending the U.N. General Assembly in New York and the political establishment in Tbilisi suddenly realized that if they did such a thing – especially if they did it publicly – they would fid themselves not only in the crosshairs of ISIS and its ferocious partisans, but of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is a strong supporter of Assad. They quickly denied that any such offer had been made at all. The government press service denied to The Daily Beast on Thursday that such camps for Syrian fighters were planned and the country’s defense ministry referred to the subject as “too sensitive” to discuss," the article reads.
"ISIS on Georgia’s Mind" is an article which appeared in the Daily Beast on September 26.
"It’s not surprising that the United States is looking for Georgia’s help fighting this developing terrorist menace. This country sitting between Turkey and the troubled Russian provinces of Dagestan and Chechnya is home to scores of young Muslims who’ve joined the international jihad today. And Georgia would be very interested in helping the U.S. and Arab military forces to win the struggle against ISIS. But that doesn’t mean it will."
"Earlier this week word leaked that Georgia had offered to host training camps for the supposedly moderate Syrian rebels that the United States wants to see trained to fight ISIS on the one hand, and eventually the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad on the other. But as soon as this development was reported in Reuters, the New York Times and Foreign Policy, Georgian officials attending the U.N. General Assembly in New York and the political establishment in Tbilisi suddenly realized that if they did such a thing – especially if they did it publicly – they would fid themselves not only in the crosshairs of ISIS and its ferocious partisans, but of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is a strong supporter of Assad. They quickly denied that any such offer had been made at all. The government press service denied to The Daily Beast on Thursday that such camps for Syrian fighters were planned and the country’s defense ministry referred to the subject as “too sensitive” to discuss," the article reads.
