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Latest...BBC reporter says that a series of explosions have been heard, black smoke has been seen around the city. Explosions and gunfire heard in the hills around the town. A lot of Russian tank activity.
Explosions heard, smoke seen around Georgia’s Gori - AFP
GORI, Georgia (Thomson Financial) - A series of explosions were heard and smoke was seen around the flashpoint Georgian city of Gori on Thursday where Russian and Georgian forces are concentrated, an Agence France-Presse reporter said.
The reporter said it appeared to be shelling. Moments earlier, a Russian soldier had demanded journalists leave and fired shots in the air.
http://www.hemscott.com/news/static/tfn/item.do?newsId=66179004685527
Haaretz reporter among 4 robbed at gunpoint by Russian troops in Georgia
By Anshel Pfeffer, Haaretz Correspondent in Georgia
Four Israeli journalists, including Haaretz correspondent Anshel Pfeffer, were robbed at gunpoint by Russian soldiers in the Georgian city of Gori on Thursday.
None of the Israelis was injured in the incident, which occurred as a number of foreign journalists gathered near a Russian checkpoint stationed at the entrance to the city. The Russian troops opened fire on the journalists without warning, trying to disperse the crowd.
Meanwhile, a Russian soldier armed with a Kalashnikov rifle approached the vehicle in which the Israeli journalists were traveling.
He shot at the ground next to Y-Net reporter Tzur Shizaf and ordered the other three journalists to exit the car and leave the site.
The four journalists escaped unharmed to Georgian forces stationed 300 meters away. The rifle-toting Russian soldier, meanwhile, took the reporters’ car and joined his comrades.
- http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1011745.html
My guess—and it’s only a guess—is that the Russians are establishing some sort of “demilitarized zone” around South Ossetia and the other province. They’re moving into those towns and destroying Georgian military installations prior to pulling back, so the Georgians can’t make another move on their pet separatists.
Putin is cagey. He’s shown that many times in the past; the man is smart, and he’s dangerous. I can’t believe he’d be stupid enough to push the issue at this point, really. He’s gotten what he wanted. He controls the two “breakaway” Georgian provinces. He’s humiliated President Saakshavili, to the point that I bet he is out of power by his own people’s votes within a year. He’s humiliated the West, especially the US and NATO. He’s gotten the point across to his former satellite states that HE is the one they need to work with, not the West. Why not cash out and walk away from the table? Why force the issue further into Georgia?
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I’m beginning to think the Russians have only agreed on cease fires and appeared to be moving out to delay anyone from helping until they completed the mission of taking the country over. Once that has been done, it is a lot harder to move them out rather than prevent them from moving in.
The whole world has it’s thumb up it’s butt and the Russians are laughing the whole time. It seems the Russians are the only ones who understand what war is. We have gotten spoiled by fighting people like Saddam who put up practically no resistance other than the insurgents. Which in my opinion, we have let go on far too long by allowing them to pour over the border in Iraq. As much as I love President Bush, he seems to have issues with borders and the strategy of holding them.
Gori may be as far to the south as Russia can currently go re in so-called buffer zone. Is there a major highway between Gori and Armenia?
For the last 3 days I’ve heard that the Russians are in Gori then that they’re heading toward Gori, that they’re not in Gori. What’s up?
Don’t know if this is news, but were hearing via KFI Los Angeles that there is wide spread looting being committed by Russian Troops.
This is the first round of the great war for oil.
“He forges decree after decree, like horseshoes
In groins, forehead, in eyes, and eyebrows,
Wherever an execution’s happening though - there’s raspberry, and the Ossetian’s giant torso.”
(Osip Mandelstam, 1933)
In Mandelstam’s poem, “raspberry” is a code word for the criminal underworld, of which Stalin was a part. Stalin was born in Gori in Georgia near the South Ossetian border, which is why Mandelstam refers to him as “the Ossetian.” For this reference Mandelstam was arrested in 1934 and purged in 1938. When Stalin was Commissar of Nationalities he invaded his home country of Georgia and was so ruthless that even Lenin was angry. IS PUTIN THE NEW COMMISSAR OF NATIONALITIES?