Georgian refugees look to US for hope, relief aid

TBILISI, Georgia - Some 240 war refugees are crammed into a former office building and there's no running water, but otherwise things are fine, a Georgian refugee told U.S. officials Thursday at a makeshift shelter. A top U.S. military official said he hoped to help the Georgians return home as soon as possible. The head of the U.S. European Command, U.S. Gen. John Craddock, who is also NATO's supreme allied commander for Europe, visited the building that is housing hundreds of Georgians displaced since fighting began Aug. 7 over Georgia's separatist province of South Ossetia. Craddock visited the site with Henrietta Holsman Fore, administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, which is helping oversee delivery of U.S. aid, including bedding, medicine, soap, food and infant formula. About 80,000 people... [read full story]