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2008-08-14 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Jovial Russians mount deep incursion into Georgia

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Posted by john frum 2008-08-14 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 South Ossetian fighters, their faces covered in balaclavas, also robbed at least three western news teams of their cars at gunpoint.

ROTFL

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-08-14 02:27|| 2008-08-14 02:27|| Front Page Top

#2 It is clear that Russians are digging in like a tick. The Kodori element is on the run in Svaneti, dodging pursuing Russians and trying to survive as they have no way out. Cossack and Ossetian irregulars are burning villages and killing or detaining civilians in and around Ossetia shipping them to camps set up in Tskhinvali for God knows what. The Russian positions will be slow to retreat, if any is ordered, and they will cover their tracks.

Posted by jefe101 2008-08-14 02:42|| 2008-08-14 02:42|| Front Page Top

#3 There is no such thing as a Russian "Peacekeeper".

Posted by newc">newc 2008-08-14 07:10|| 2008-08-14 07:10|| Front Page Top

#4 Tell that to French President Sarkozy.

He even called the action peace-enforcement.

Posted by john frum 2008-08-14 08:25|| 2008-08-14 08:25|| Front Page Top

#5 If the Russians invaded to protect the ethnic Russians in South Ossetians what is this nonsense about South Ossetian fighters. Why not say ethnic Russians brigands. If they have left South Ossetian, and they are not part of the Red Army, they are brigands.

And what are Chechnyans doing there? The Russian army has a responsibility for them. Either they are directly part of the army or they are surviving within the Armies protection. Either way the Russian army is responsible so an article branding them as Chechnyans is irresponsible and overtly pro-Russian.

You can't have it both ways.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-08-14 10:43|| 2008-08-14 10:43|| Front Page Top

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