Posted on 10/03/2008 9:41:33 PM PDT by Gator_that_eats_Dems
MOSCOW — A car bomb in the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali killed seven Russian peacekeepers and two others on Friday, raising tensions in the separatist enclave days before a scheduled pullback of Russian troops from Georgian territory.
President Eduard Kokoity of South Ossetia said he had “no doubt” that Georgian special forces were behind the explosion. The acts, he said, “undermine international efforts to stabilize the situation and torpedo the Medvedev-Sarkozy plan.”
The blast comes six days before a Russian deadline to pull back from the so-called buffer zone outside South Ossetia, returning a large swath of land to Georgian control. European Union monitors began patrolling the buffer zone on Wednesday, in accordance with a cease-fire agreement brokered by President Nicolas Sarkozy of France and agreed to by Russia. President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia agreed to adhere to the timetable for withdrawal.
“The last terrorist act in South Ossetia proves that Georgia has not abandoned the policy of state terrorism,” Mr. Kokoity told the Interfax news agency.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, Russian peacekeepers in an ethnic Georgian village stopped two cars carrying firearms and grenades on Friday, detaining four men who had no documents. They escorted the men to their headquarters to search the cars, one of which exploded during the search. Two of the detained men were killed, and eight others were wounded.
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Russian invaders would be more accurate.
Talk about an oxymoron!
So, what are the Russians doing in South Ossetia again?
A car bomb in the Austrian capital of Vienna killed seven German peacekeepers.
See how that doesn’t work? The NYTs should be ashamed of themselves.
Peacekeeping?
Pan Yan — it is so hard to remember from which side of the looking glass I am viewing things.
Are you kidding? They exposed a highly effective top secret terrorist surveillance program. They should be in prison. Big boy prison. I mean San Quintin, Alcatraz, Leavenworth. We should do what the French did and send them to equatorial Guyana where they die by the dozens of malaria and dehydration. How many American lives have they cost?
Must have been Ukranians.
Just ask Putin.
Take up the Russian burden.
Russianpeacekeeperspiecekeepers
Fixt.
A little piece of Poland and a little piece of France...
Sure seems like it. Now they can’t pull back, not with those Georgian aggressors threatening Russia.
Issat right?
Now, what would the motive be for Presidnet Kokoity to make such a proposition?
Does anyone know?
Oh my, what a coincidense... Let me guess... the Russians now say they have to stay.
You should write this in a letter to the “editors”. I use that term loosely.
Getting a bit of “Russian diplomacy”
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