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Title: US military planes arrive in Georgia
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Press TV
URL Source: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=66322§ionid=351020606
Published: Aug 12, 2008
Author: AGB/DT
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. Poster Comment: Those be military transport planes, I see. Some had speculated about this mission, whether charters would be used, what airspace they would use, where they would land.
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 of Georgia's military operations in Iraq, Bondo Maisuradze said the US military agreed to help with the logistics of the Georgian redeployment.
The Georgian soldiers are located in Diyala province, north of Baghdad and some others guard the Iraqi Parliament building as well as other key structures inside Baghdad's fortified Green Zone.
Georgia has had the third largest contingent after the US and Britain in Iraq before the withdrawal.
Russian Premier Vladimir Putin said sending the Georgian troops from Iraq would not change the situation and the US is hampering the peacekeeping operation in South Ossetia.
"It's a pity that some of our partners instead of helping are trying to get in the way, I mean the United States using its military transport aircraft to relocate Georgia's military contingent from Iraq virtually into the conflict zone, among other things," said Putin.
Chairman of Russia's State Duma Security Committee Vladimir Vasilyev said on Sunday that Tbilisi could not initiate military operation in South Ossetia without Washington's help.
On Thursday evening, Georgian military forces launched a large-scale military offensive against the break away region of South Ossetia hours before the start of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. In response, Russia moved its forces to the region where most of the population has Russian citizenship.
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Shakh Aivazov / The Associated Press Georgian soldiers are seen after returning home from Iraq on Aug. 11. The U.S. started flying some 2,000 Georgian troops home from Iraq on Aug. 10. Russian armored vehicles rolled deep into western Georgia on Aug. 11, quickly taking control of several towns and a military base.
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This can't be good.
That's USM air transport units on Georgian soil delivering combatants. Not good is right. ;-)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
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