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
The Russians seem to have a problem controlling their inner Viking/Mongol. Must plunder and pillage.
gSteve HArrigan on Fox said that most of the extracurricular activity seemed to be on South Ossetian irregulars. News reports don’t seem to be able to make the distinction, though, admittedly, it’s a distinction without a difference in this case as nothing is happening without Moscow’s imprimateur.
But the US gets world news when a dozen total sick Army kids sexually humiliated Iranian mercenaries at Abu Grahm. What a world it is. Troubling indeed.