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US military planes arrive in Georgia
Post Date: 2008-08-12 00:26:42 by Rotara
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Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:39:47 GMT Georgian soldiers after returning from Iraq, in Tbilisi (marching off to their certain death - Rotara) US military planes have sent 2,000 Georgian troops from Iraq to the embattled region of South Ossetia, a Pentagon official says. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said on Monday that the US was fulfilling its agreement with the Georgian government to assist them in redeploying their troops in an emergency, AFP reported. Earlier in an interview with The Times, General David Petraeus said, "The flights are ongoing to redeploy the elements of the Georgian contingent so that they can deal with the security issues in their country." On Saturday, chief ...
McCain Adviser Was Lobbyist for Georgia
Post Date: 2008-08-11 20:33:08 by Jethro Tull
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McCain Adviser Was Lobbyist for Georgia By MARY JACOBY August 11, 2008; Page A5 John McCain's top foreign-policy adviser, Randy Scheunemann, is a leading expert on U.S.-allied Georgia -- and was a paid lobbyist for the former Soviet republic until March, in the run-up to what has become a major battle between Georgia and Russia. Democratic rival Barack Obama's presidential campaign was quick to try to paint Mr. Scheunemann's dual roles as a conflict of interest after Sen. McCain swiftly took Georgia's side in the dispute, and cited it as evidence that Sen. McCain is "ensconced in a lobbyist culture," as Obama spokesman Hari Sevugan told reporters over the ...
US military surprised by speed, timing of Russia military action
Post Date: 2008-08-11 20:01:08 by Rotara
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1 hour ago WASHINGTON (AFP) — The US military was surprised by the timing and swiftness of the Russian military's move into South Ossetia and is still trying to sort out what happened, a US defense official said Monday. Russian forces surged into the breakaway region last week after weeks of clashes, threats and warnings between Tblisi and Moscow which culminated August 6 in a two-day Georgian offensive into South Ossetia. That the two countries were on a collision course was no surprise to anyone, but the devastating Russian response was not expected, officials said. "We were tracking it earlier in that week and we knew that things were escalating," said a military ...
Israel playing down Georgia ties
Post Date: 2008-08-11 16:58:02 by Disgusted
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TEL AVIV (JTA) -- As Russian and Georgian forces battle over South Ossetia, Israel finds itself on the defensive. Though a favored armed supplier for the former Soviet republic, the Jewish state now appears to be at pains to play down these ties rather than risk a crisis with Moscow. With Russia widely expected to supply Tehran with advanced anti-aircraft missiles that could fend off a pre-emptive strike on Iranian nuclear sites, Israel has a vested interest in not appearing to be in Georgia's corner and losing whatever lobbying power it has in Moscow. With troops, tanks and warplanes clashing in the Caucasus over the weekend in the worst armed face-off Europe has seen in decades, ...
Russian Troops Launch Ground Offensive in Georgia (Update3)
Post Date: 2008-08-11 16:51:51 by Rotara
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Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgia's president, speaks during a news conference in Berlin on June 25, 2008. Photographer: Adam Berry/Bloomberg News Aug. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Russia sent ground forces into Georgia proper for the first time since fighting began five days ago, seizing a military base and forcing the Georgian army to retreat toward the capital. Georgian officials accused Russia of seeking to overthrow the government of President Mikheil Saakashvili, while Russia said it was protecting the separatist Georgian regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Both countries gave contradictory accounts of fighting. Georgia says Russia is invading two cities while the Russians insist ...
Russia troops enter Georgia via Abkhazia
Post Date: 2008-08-11 16:32:55 by Rotara
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Published: Monday 11 August 2008 17:03 UTC Last updated: Monday 11 August 2008 17:03 UTC Russian troops have entered Georgia via the breakaway region of Abkhazia and have reached the city of Senaki. Moscow says it is trying to prevent Georgian troops from regrouping to carry out fresh attacks on the Russian army in South Ossetia, another breakaway region. On Monday, EU mediators tried to broker a cease-fire and Georgian President Michaïl Saakashvili unilaterally signed a cease-fire. Russia, however, refused saying Georgia has continued bombings and artillery attacks in South Ossetia. The G7 countries have urged Russia to sign the agreement. NATO, the US, and the European Union have ...
The BBC is deliberately distorting the News from the Georgia Region
Post Date: 2008-08-11 15:20:12 by TwentyTwelve
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The BBC is deliberately distorting the News from the Georgia Region Chimes of Freedom August 10, 2008 As usual, the BBC is twisting and distorting the news coming out of the Georgia region. We keep being told that around 1500 have been killed in Georgia, the inference being that this has resulted from Russian bombing. Not so, the casualties are in Ossetia. While the Ossetians claimed over 1000 dead the BBC neither reported this or any newsreel coming out of Ossetia showing the destruction caused by the Georgian shelling of the breakaway republic. All we are getting is one-sided reports of the destruction being caused by the Russians. Unlike News 24 which is its international news ...
Taunting the Bear
Post Date: 2008-08-11 15:16:19 by wudidiz
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Taunting the Bear By JAMES TRAUB Published: August 9, 2008 The hostilities between Russia and Georgia that erupted on Friday over the breakaway province of South Ossetia look, in retrospect, almost absurdly over-determined. For years, the Russians have claimed that Georgia’s president, Mikheil Saakashvili, has been preparing to retake the disputed regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and have warned that they would use force to block such a bid. Mr. Saakashvili, for his part, describes today’s Russia as a belligerent power ruthlessly pressing at its borders, implacably hostile to democratic neighbors like Georgia and Ukraine. He has thrown in his lot with the West, and has ...
The Moronic Party
Post Date: 2008-08-11 14:48:34 by TwentyTwelve
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The Moronic Party Paul Craig Roberts Counterpunch August 11, 2008 “Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.” — John Stuart Mill Georgia Except for the Washington Post, the entire world knows that Georgia (the birthplace of Joseph Stalin, not Georgia USA) initiated the aggression that killed Russian peacekeepers and hundreds of civilians in South Ossetia, peacekeepers who were there with the blessing of Georgia and international agreements. Many years ago, during the 1970s if memory serves, neoconservative Irving Kristol, echoing John Stuart Mill, called his conservative party, the ...
WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT GEORGIA-RUSSIA CONFLICT?
Post Date: 2008-08-11 12:37:54 by Rotara
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I must admit that I am not an expert on the Georgia-Russia conflict that is now underway. But I have been following issues there for some time and have learned to see some linkages between what is going on in places like Poland, Czech Republic, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, China, and the Georgia-Russia conflict. So here are some random, and not so random, observations and quotes that I think might give us all something to ponder. * It's all about oil and natural gas. Russia has the world's largest supply of natural gas and Iran has the world's second largest supply. There is much oil and natural gas up in the Caspian Sea region. Which ever country controls this part of the ...
Refugees 'escape horror' of South Ossetia battle (Georgia, Russia, NATO)
Post Date: 2008-08-11 03:19:28 by Rotara
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Posted 4 hours 36 minutes agoUpdated 2 hours 49 minutes ago Russia's Education Minister says authorities will "look for children and people who are hiding in basements" (AFP: Natalia Kolesnikova) Related Link: Background: South Ossetia and Abkhazia A 40-year-old woman stands in the middle of a footpath and bursts into tears after arriving with a convoy of refugees in the embattled Georgian enclave of South Ossetia. "When the Russians arrived, we were so happy, and after they bombed them [the Georgians]," said the woman called Meri, referring to the Russian assault and air raids on Georgia that forced Tbilisi to pull back its troops from South Ossetia. She ...
Georgia says Russia bombs again as Bush lashes Moscow
Post Date: 2008-08-11 01:26:15 by Rotara
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TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgia said Russian warplanes attacked more targets near its capital, Tbilisi, early on Monday while U.S. President George W. Bush condemned Moscow's "disproportionate response" to the South Ossetian crisis. Russian planes bombed a military base and radar installation, the interior ministry said, shortly after France's foreign minister arrived in Georgia on a mediation mission. "There were two bombings. One at the Kojori military base and another on Mt. Makhata. As far as I know there are no casualties," Interior Ministry spokesman Shota Utiashvili told Reuters. It was unclear if Kouchner was still in Tbilisi at the time of the bombing. ...
We helped in Iraq - now help us, beg Georgians
Post Date: 2008-08-10 23:46:09 by TwentyTwelve
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From The Times August 11, 2008 We helped in Iraq - now help us, beg Georgians As Russia forces its neighbour to retreat from South Ossetia, the people of Gori tell our correspondent of betrayal by the West (David Mdzinarishvili/REUTERS) A mother and child in the ravaged Georgian city of Gori, where at least 17 people were killed at the weekend when Russian jets bombed apartment blocks Tony Halpin Roots of Georgia-Russia conflict | Putin sends US message As a Russian jet bombed fields around his village, Djimali Avago, a Georgian farmer, asked me: “Why won’t America and Nato help us? If they won’t help us now, why did we help them in Iraq?” A similar sense of ...
Russia keeps up attacks on Georgia
Post Date: 2008-08-10 22:52:18 by Rotara
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58 minutes ago TBILISI (AFP) — Russia kept up its attacks on Georgia in the early hours of Monday, brushing aside appeals for a ceasefire after its forces swept through the Georgian rebel region of South Ossetia. Russian planes bombed the base of a special forces battalion and an air traffic control centre in the suburbs of the Georgian capital Tbilisi early on Monday, Interior Ministry spokesman Shota Utiashvili said. The explosions could be heard from the centre of the city. Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said late Sunday Russian tanks were on Georgian territory outside South Ossetia and Utiashvili said a "massive" aerial bombardment of the central Georgian city ...
Georgia claims Russia in Gori attack
Post Date: 2008-08-10 22:33:02 by Rotara
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THE Georgian city of Gori is under "massive" attack from Russian artillery and planes and ground forces are preparing for an assault, according to the Georgian interior ministry. “There was massive bombing of Gori all evening and now we are getting reports of an imminent attack by Russian tanks,” interior ministry spokesman Shota Utiashvili said.“Gori is being bombed massively from the air and from artillery as well.” About 65km northwest of the Georgian capital Tbilisi, Gori is just south of the border with the rebel region of South Ossetia, which has seen fierce fighting between Russian and Georgian forces in recent days. It is the largest Georgian town ...
Casualties mount as Russia-Georgia conflict spreads
Post Date: 2008-08-10 21:45:27 by Rotara
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Posted 2 hours 3 minutes ago Troops in South Ossetia: Russia's Foreign Minister says that his country is trying to restore peace (AFP: Dmitry Kostyukov) Audio: Fighting continues in South Ossetia (AM) Audio: US criticises Russia over Georgia (AM) Related Link: Unrest in South Ossetia: TimelineFor all the talk about ending the fighting between Georgia and Russia over the breakaway region of South Ossetia, the conflict and the killing continues. Russian jets have struck at targets near Tbilisi, including the airport, and Russia says its warships sank a Georgian naval boat. Russia denies it has targeted civilians but pictures out of Georgia and eyewitness accounts show ...
Tbilisi wants to see Israel place diplomatic pressure on Russia
Post Date: 2008-08-10 21:30:08 by Rotara
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Israeli diplomatic officials were in contact throughout Sunday with their Russian counterparts, and denied any crisis in Israeli-Russian relations as a result of the Russian-Georgian conflagration and past sales of Israeli arms to Tbilisi. A burned tank is seen at a street in a town of Tskhinvali, of breakaway Georgian enclave South Ossetia. Photo: AP Slideshow: Pictures of the week Vladimir Konstinidi, the chargé d'affaires at Georgia's embassy in Tel Aviv, said meanwhile that he had not been informed that Israel had clamped a total freeze on weapon sales to Georgia. Israel has sold an estimated $300 million to $500m. worth of weaponry and military ...
Georgia Under Online Assault
Post Date: 2008-08-10 20:58:37 by tom007
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Georgia Under Online Assault By Noah Shachtman EmailAugust 10, 2008 | 12:29:00 PMCategories: Crazy Ivans, Info War VisuwallddosThe websites of Georgia's government have been under denial-of-service attacks for weeks, with Russian hackers fingered as the culprits. Those online assaults have only intensified in recent days, as a shooting war between the two countries has broken out. Galrahn at Information Dissimenation says that "Russia appears to have targeted the .ge domain for specific government websites, and are pounding the Georgian military networks, but other websites in Georgia in org, net, and other domains are still up, sporadically." The Washington Post adds that ...
Abkhazia starts war with Georgia (+ more from Russia Today)
Post Date: 2008-08-10 20:18:44 by Rotara
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More from RussiaToday: Main story August 10, 2008, 22:24 American says U.S. and Georgia to answer for violence in South Ossetia Joe Mestas, American citizen living in South Ossetia, who witnessed everything that happening in the region, talked to RT and blamed U.S. and Georgian leaders for the outbreak of violence. other stories August 10, 2008, 19:47 | News Georgia announces ceasefire August 11, 2008, 2:24 | News Talks possible after withdrawal of troops and non-use of force deal - Russia August 10, 2008, 17:14 | News Russian war ships sail for Georgia August 10, 2008, 15:09 | News Shelled city is living hellAugust 10, 2008, 18:50 | News Georgia is guilty of ...
WW3.....It's here
Post Date: 2008-08-10 20:11:35 by Christian Soldier
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This is it, *RED ALERT*
Foreign Ministry seeks lower profile for Israel in Georgia-Russia conflict
Post Date: 2008-08-10 19:44:30 by Rotara
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Israel is hoping to maintain a low profile with regard to the war in Georgia, government officials told Haaretz. One source noted that currently, neither side of the conflict is pleased with Israel's position, since Russia has been irked by Israeli-Georgian weapons deals for some time, and Tbilisi is now frustrated by Israel's decision to halt arms exports. In a move which drew heavy criticism from defense officials, Israel's Foreign Ministry over the weekend recommended complete cessation of the sale of weapons and security-related equipment to Georgia in light of the fighting between its troops and the Russian Army. "The Foreign Ministry's approach demonstrates a ...
Reports: Russia sinks Georgian ship trying to attack Russian navy ships
Post Date: 2008-08-10 19:36:49 by Rotara
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Russian news agencies say the Defense Ministry claims to have sunk a Georgian missile boat that was trying to attack Russian navy ships in the Black Sea. The Defense Ministry refused to comment on the Sunday reports to The Associated Press and Georgian officials could not immediately be reached. If confirmed, the incident could mark a serious escalation of the fighting that has raged between Russia and Georgia over the separatist Georgian province of South Ossetia. The ITAR-Tass news agency quoted a ministry spokesman as saying that Georgian missile patrol boats twice tried to attack Russian ships, which fired back and sank one of the Georgian vessels.
U.S.: Russia trying to topple Georgian government
Post Date: 2008-08-10 19:35:11 by Rotara
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updated 40 minutes ago UNITED NATIONS (CNN) -- The United States on Sunday accused Russia of trying to overthrow the government of the former Soviet republic of Georgia, where Russian troops have been battling Georgian forces over the breakaway territory of South Ossetia. Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S. ambassador to the U.N., alleges a Russian official said Georgia's president "must go." At an emergency session of the United Nations' Security Council, the U.S. alleged Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili "must go." "This is completely unacceptable and crosses a ...
Loathing mounts as Russia reveals iron fist [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-08-10 18:46:13 by Rotara
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Published: August 10 2008 18:26 | Last updated: August 10 2008 18:26The people of Tirdzsuzi, a settlement on a picturesque rural road, remember how things used to be with their neighbours in the town of Tskhinvali, 20km away.Despite the fact that Tirdzsuzi is made up of ethnic Georgians, while Tskhinvali is composed largely of ethnic Ossetians, “this never used to bother anyone”, says Mabuku Sakulachvili, an elderly farmer. “We used to trade with them, we used to marry each other. There were never any problems.”As he speaks an explosion a few kilometres away is a reminder that the town is just 6km from the front line. Russian troops were advancing through the South ...
Georgia ceasefire fails to halt Russian attack
Post Date: 2008-08-10 18:39:36 by Rotara
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By Charles Clover in Gori, Harvey Morris at the United Nationsand Edward Luce in Washington Published: August 10 2008 19:51 | Last updated: August 10 2008 19:51Georgia on Sunday said it was pulling its troops out of the separatist province of South Ossetia but its appeals for a ceasefire in the widening conflict in the Caucasus failed to halt Russia’s mounting military response.As the focus of the fighting widened from South Ossetia to Abkhazia, another separatist region, Russian aircraft were reported to have struck at targets inside Georgia, including the civilian airport in the capital Tbilisi.Local officials said Russia also deployed a naval squadron off the coast of Abkhazia where ...
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