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Nathan Hodge
Russia’s top investigator is claiming that the Georgians employed mercenaries during their August war — including female snipers from Ukraine and Latvia. Reuters reports:
Asked to list the nationalities of the foreign fighters it believes were involved, Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Prosecutor-General’s investigative committee said: “America, the Czech Republic, Chechnya, the Baltic States, [...]

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Mon Nov 24, 7:03 AM
ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Russia has evidence that citizens from NATO member states including the United States and Turkey fought for Georgia in the five-day August war, Russia’s top investigator said on Monday.

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By OLESYA VARTANYAN and ELLEN BARRY
TBILISI, Georgia — Presidents Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia and Lech Kaczynski of Poland said they were met with machine-gun fire when they visited a Russian checkpoint near the South Ossetian boundary on Sunday. Russia denied the claim.

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by Zerin Elci
Global Research, November 19, 2008
Reuters - 2008-11-18
Russia’s defence minister said on Tuesday that Georgia was trying to build up its military and he warned this could spark even greater instability in the region than there was in the war in August.
“The Georgian side’s efforts to increase military potential is causing concern and I [...]

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Published: Tuesday November 18, 2008
Russian Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov on Tuesday warned Georgia that any efforts to strengthen its military would be punished more severely than during the countries’ brief August war.
“We are concerned over the continuing desire of the Georgian administration to develop its military potential,” Serdyukov said through an interpreter after talks with [...]

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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin allegedly threatened to hang Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili “by the balls” during the August war in Georgia, a report not denied by Putin’s spokesman said on Friday.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s diplomatic aide Jean-David Levitte earlier told Le Nouvel Observateur magazine that Putin had told Sarkozy in a meeting: “Saakashvili, I’m [...]

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Published: Friday November 7, 2008
Independent monitors question Georgia’s claim that war broke out with Russia in August when it defended against separatist and Russian attacks in South Ossetia, the New York Times said Friday.
The US State Department said it had seen the news account, but added it may be impossible to “get to the bottom [...]

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Georgia’s ‘Indiscriminiate’ War with Russia
Noah Shachtman

Georgia’s claims — that it waged a precise attacks on separatists, while the Russians went on a indiscriminate rampage during their August war — are growing more suspect by the day. First we learned that Georgia showered South Ossetia with cluster bombs that killed at least three civilians.

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Russian investigators say they are trying to identify the woman they suspect launched a suicide attack on a minibus in the North Caucasus.
Twelve people were killed in Thursday’s attack in Vladikavkaz, the capital of North Ossetia. Officials believe one of them was a female suicide bomber.
The device exploded as the minibus stopped near a busy [...]

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By Mark Ames, The Nation
Posted on October 28, 2008, Printed on October 29, 2008

You may not have noticed it, but a couple of weeks ago, the New York Times slipped in a story that completely contradicted a narrative that it had been building up for two straight months, one that was leading America into another war-a [...]