I can't believe the Georgians were so foolish to up the ante over South Ossetia, when over 90% of South Ossetian's, that have their own ethnicity and language by the way, voted overwhelmingly (around two years ago) to have political independence from Georgia. I believe most South Ossetian's have also been willingly taken Russian passports.
For Georgia to be so bellicose over South Ossetia, when South Ossetian's don't want much to do with Georgia and seek Russian protection, AND knowing that Russia are just chomping at the bit for any excuse to pound the ammonia out of Georgia, was an EXTREMELY bad idea. And for what, nationalist pride?
And they surely would not have done so had it not been for Israeli and US weapons and without tacit approval from the US. There are reports of two black soldiers being killed and one Ossetian woman describes troops dressed in black with US patches on their shoulders. Who knows if they are US or Blackwater/Aegis guys but I smell a rat in all of this.
Oil pipelines, specifically the Baku (Azerbaijan)- Tiblisi (Georgia)- Ceyhan (Turkey) Pipeline, and the encirclement of Russia, China and Iran with known and possibly unknown nuclear capabilities is why Russia has responded in the manner that she has.
INFO on MERCS:
Did Mercenaries Help Georgia?
http://www.russiatoday.com/news/news/28765
American Mercenary Captured By Russians
NATO instructor taken hostage with Georgians amid reports of U.S. military commanding thousands of mercs in proxy war
http://www.prisonplanet.com/american-mercenary-captured-by-russians.html
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Monday, August 11, 2008
An American mercenary has been captured by Russian forces along with a number of Georgian soldiers according to a report from the Russian news website Izvestia, providing more evidence that the U.S. and NATO are covertly supporting the Georgian army in a proxy war with Russia.
According to the report, the mercenary is an African-American who is a NATO instructor and an ordinance specialist. He has now been transferred to the Russian base of Vladikavkaz.
The story also backs up previous reports of dead black Americans having been found in Tskhinvali, the capital city of South Ossetia.
U.S. soldiers recently conducted training programs where they instructed Georgian soldiers how to deal with unexploded ordinance as part of the Georgia Train and Equip Program.
Another report from the Russia daily
Kommersant states that thousands of mercenaries from numerous different countries are fighting on the Georgian side and are being “commanded by the U.S. military instructors.”
“The U.S. military instructors directly command and coordinate actions of mercenaries without being involved in actual fighting, the source specified. According to intelligence data, there are roughly 1,000 military instructors of the United States in Georgia,” states the report.
“The task force of Russia has annihilated a few groups of mercenaries. Some of mercenaries have been captured and investigators are working with them, the source said.”
In a related development, Russia FSB has detained 10 Georgian intelligence service officers who were allegedly preparing terrorist attacks inside Russia.
“We have detained 10 agents of the Georgian special services who were spying on military facilities and preparing terrorist attacks, including on Russian territory,” Alexander Bortnikov said at a meeting with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
Russia has today launched new forays into Georgia itself even after Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili signed a cease-fire pledge. Russia claims that Georgia has not honored the cease-fire and continues to attack Russian positions.
U.S. Military Instructors Command Hirelings in Georgia
http://kommersant.com/p-13081/mercenaries_Georgia_U.S._instructor
August 11, 2008
Thousands of mercenaries are fighting for Georgia in this burning conflict with South Ossetia. They are commanded by the U.S. military instructors, RIA Novosti reported with reference to a high-ranked officer of Russia’s military intelligence.
“From 2,500 to 3,000 mercenaries fight against Russia’s peacekeepers on behalf of Georgia,” the unnamed source said. Amid them are the natives of Ukraine, some Baltic states and the Caucasus regions.
The U.S. military instructors directly command and coordinate actions of mercenaries without being involved in actual fighting, the source specified. According to intelligence data, there are roughly 1,000 military instructors of the United States in Georgia.
Task force of Russia has annihilated a few groups of mercenaries. Some of mercenaries have been captured, and investigators are working with them, the source said.
U.S. Troops Still in Georgia
http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=56704
By John Vandiver, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Tuesday, August 12, 2008
U.S. personnel responsible for training members of the Georgian military remain stationed inside the volatile country, where fighting erupted Friday between Russia and Georgia over the breakaway province of South Ossetia.
The U.S. European Command said on Monday that there were no plans at this time to withdraw the U.S. military trainers from the country. There are still 127 U.S. trainers in Georgia, where the American forces had been preparing the Georgian army for operations in Iraq.
Meanwhile, U.S. civilians started to make their way out of the country over the weekend, according to the U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi.
Convoys carrying family members of diplomats, government workers and ordinary citizens bound for the embassy in neighboring Armenia continued on Monday.
Tom Mittnacht, a spokesman at the U.S. Embassy in Armenia, said the office was not releasing the number of evacuees it has received so far. But the numbers do not seem to be exceptionally large.
“We’re working on a few convoys,” Mittnacht said.
Upon arrival in Armenia, families are taking up residence in hotels while they wait things out.
“We’re here to provide them with any assistance we can,” Mittnacht said.
Regarding the military personnel, EUCOM stated that they are not engaged in the conflict and are removed from where the fighting is happening.
In addition to the trainers, 1,000 soldiers from the Vicenza, Italy-based Southern European Task Force (Airborne) and the Kaiserslautern-based 21st Theater Sustainment Command, along with Marine reservists with the 3rd Battalion, 25th Marines out of Ohio, and the state of Georgia’s Army National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 121st Infantry recently participated in “Immediate Response 2008.”
That exercise, which had the U.S. troops operating from Vaziani, concluded on Thursday. That base, near the capital of Tbilisi, was bombed by Russian aircraft over the weekend, Georgian officials said.
As for the roughly 2,000 Georgians currently deployed to Iraq, they are now being redeployed to their home country for support. The first of those soldiers departed Iraq over the weekend, according to the military.
The Georgians had made up the third-largest contingent of foreign troops in Iraq.
Russian Troops Report US And Israeli Soldiers Killed In Georgian War
http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1125.htm
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers (Traducción al Español abajo)
We have received our first report from Sister Nikolaevna who had traveled from Moscow to Vladikavkaz to assist in the aiding of the refuge children that have been pouring into Russia from South Ossetia after the brutal Georgian destruction of their homeland, and which details that ‘many’ foreign fighters have been killed after Russian Military units began their liberation of both South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
According to staff officers accompanying Colonel-General Anatoly Nogovitsyn returning from the battlefront, at least 7 foreign fighters identified as American and Israel soldiers have been found among the rubble of the now freed, but destroyed, capital city of South Ossetia, Tskhinvali.
The 3 dead American soldiers, these reports state, were identified by their uniform patches as belonging to the
United States 173 Airborne Brigade assigned to the US’ Southern European Command, and who just a few weeks ago were airlifted to Georgia for what was described as a ‘war game’ exercise with Georgian Military Forces preparing for their unprovoked attack upon the Russian peoples of South Ossetia.
The 4 dead Israeli soldiers, these reports continue, are believed to part of the Israeli governments sponsored mercenary forces who have previously wreaked havoc in the US protected South American puppet state of Colombia, and to which Israel is now its largest weapons supplier.
Israel has, likewise, become the United States choice for funneling weapons to Georgian Military Forces, but are attempting to quickly back away from their part in this most unnecessary war, and as we can read as reported by the Haaretz News Service:
“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.”
Russia’s chairman of the State Duma Committee for Security, Vladimir Vasilyev, was quick to blast the Americans by stating, “The things that were happening in Kosovo, the things that were happening in Iraq – we are now following the same path. The further the situation unfolds, the more the world will understand that Georgia would never be able to do all this without America. South Ossetian defense officials used to make statements about imminent aggression from Georgia, but the latter denied everything, whereas the US Department of State released no comments on the matter. In essence, they have prepared the force, which destroys everything in South Ossetia, attacks civilians and hospitals. They are responsible for this. The world community will learn about it.”
Unfortunately, however, the peoples of the Western World, especially the United States, are not being told the truth about this war, and Georgia’s unprovoked attack upon South Ossetia and, instead, are being told by their propaganda media organs that Russia is the aggressor in this conflict, though Russian forces have done nothing more than what any sovereign Nation would do when invaded by a foreign military who began mass killings of civilians.
Russian Leaders Putin and Medvedev are, also, reported to be enraged by the United States providing an immediate airlift for Georgian Military Forces serving in Iraq, and which Military Analysts states make the United States an active participant in this war.
To the most unfortunate outcome of this new war for the American people is how, once again, they have been lied to by their War Leaders to support a brutal dictatorship, and as best pointed out by the AntiWar News Service:
“What's particularly disgusting is the spectacle of the fraudulent Saakashvili's smug mug all over Western television – the BBC and Bloomberg, for starters – invoking his great love of "democracy" and "freedom" and calling on the U.S. to intervene in the name of supposedly shared "values." What drivel! Up until very recently, Saakashvili has been busy rounding up his political opponents and charging them with espionage, as his police beat demonstrators in the streets. When this happened, even our somnolent media sat up and took notice, but they seem to have forgotten.
Saakashvili uses the Western media as a platform to broadcast his great love for "freedom" and make the case against the Russian "aggressors," comparing the present conflict with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the 1980s – and even the bloody 1956 repression of the Hungarians! This is nonsense. Russia is not the Soviet Union, the Iron Curtain has long since been melted down for scrap metal, and, if anything, Saakashvili resembles the Hungarian satraps of the Kremlin rather than the heroic freedom-fighters, given his absolute fealty to his foreign masters in Washington, to whom he appeals for help in putting down an internal rebellion.”
As today brings to our senses another senseless slaughter of innocent civilians, and young soldiers doing the bidding of their Nations masters, one can only wonder when the American people themselves will awaken to full horror of the atrocities being perpetrated in their name by those seeking to do nothing more than enrich themselves upon the blood of innocents.
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