Notice the byline says REUTERS?

It is not the habit of the Washington Times to mis-attribute wire stories to the wrong agency. And Reuters is not in the disinfo business.

Yeah, right. Like its "impartial" coverage of Saakashvili's attack on Ossetian civilians with indiscriminate barrages of artillery and MLRS. I remember Reuters bleating incessantly about how 90% of Kosovo was Albanian so the KLA was right in fighting for Kosovo secession. In fact, Albanians were 76% of the population and got over 90% by driving out 240,000 people from the province under KFOR's nose. If illegal migration and low intensity ethnic cleansing under Tito's dictatorship establish the legitimacy of Kosovo's independence, then Reuters hypocrites should shut up about South Ossetia. Unlike Kosovo, where Albanians were 30% of the population before WWII, South Ossetians did not squat on Georgian land and have a clear majority. It was the Soviet regime that split their country as gifts to Georgia and Russia. But the bloody ethnic conflict since the 1917 revolution has been confined to the part adjoined to Georgia.