Outrage in Georgia over fake Russian invasion report

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Outrage in Georgia over fake Russian invasion report
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Outrage in Georgia over fake Russian invasion report AFP/File – Russian tanks are seen in Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, in August 2008. Outraged Georgians …
by Michael Mainville Michael Mainville – Sun Mar 14, 11:24 am ET

TBILISI (AFP) – Outraged Georgians on Sunday slammed a local television channel that sparked panic by broadcasting a faked report announcing that Russia had launched an invasion and the country's president was dead. The Georgian opposition condemned the newscast as a state-sponsored stunt aimed at smearing President Mikheil Saakashvili's critics while the president himself added to the furore by appearing to defend the broadcast. The report, aired Saturday night on privately owned Imedi television, said Russian tanks were headed for the capital Tbilisi, Saakashvili had been killed and that some opposition leaders had sided with invading forces.

"It was indeed a very unpleasant programme but the most unpleasant thing is that it is extremely close to what can happen and to what Georgia's enemy has conceived," Saakashvili said in televised remarks. Local news agencies said the programme provoked widespread alarm, a record number of calls to emergency services and multiple incidents of heart attacks and fainting, though officials on Sunday said no deaths had been reported. The report showed footage taken from the August 2008 war that saw Russian forces pour into Georgia and bomb targets across the country.

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that doesnt even make sense why would the news do that?