Bitter Part of a Bitter Week With a Bitter Cease Fire Agreement

From today's NYT summary of the pickle Sarkozy and Georgia was in when negotiation the cease-fire:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/14/world/europe/14document.html?hp


"And, in an apparent swipe at the retreat of the Georgian army, which received supplies from the United States, the Russian general commanding the town, Vyachislav N. Borisov, noted in particular the risk if looters seized what he said were thousands of abandoned, American-made assault rifles at a military base. General Borisov spoke at an impromptu news conference on a road congested with Russian military trucks and armored vehicles outside Gori on Wednesday evening."