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“The suspicion arises that someone in the United States especially created South Ossetian conflict with the aim of making the situation more tense and creating a competitive advantage for one of the candidates fighting for the post of US President,” Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said in his interview to CNN.
Putin spoke of his disappointment that the U.S. administration didn’t do more to stop Georgia early in the conflict. Putin recalled that he was watching the situation in Georgia and South Ossetia unfold when he was at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games on August 8. He said he spoke to U.S. President Bush, also attending, who told the Russian prime minister he didn’t want war.
“U.S. citizens were indeed in the area in conflict,” Putin said. “They were acting in implementing those orders doing as they were ordered, and the only one who can give such orders is their leader,” he said.
