Posted on 08/19/2008 5:43:16 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
OVER the weekend, photographic proof emerged that the Russians used mur derous Chechen mercenaries to do their dirtiest dirty work in Georgia: The ragtag unit in question is so vicious that, last April, Chechnya's Russian-installed "president" demanded it be disbanded.
War snaps taken by Russian photojournalist Arkady Babchenko have been circulating among intelligence personnel. The shots reveal far more to the West than Babchenko realized.
Amid photos of the horrors of war, grateful South Ossetians and triumphant Russian troops, one series leapt out at me as a former intel officer: Bearded irregulars riding atop Russian-built armored vehicles (old BMPs, for the military-hardware buffs). The vehicles had been splashed with white lettering.
What did the scrawls announce to the world? These thugs proudly proclaimed that they're Chechens serving in the Vostok ("East") Battalion commanded by Badrudin Yamadaev - who shares a reputation for gangland violence with his brother, Ruslan.
Last spring, mercenaries from the Vostok Battalion indulged in a bloody gangland shoot-'em-up in the city of Gudermes, near their home turf. The mafia-on-steroids brutality was too much even for the Chechens (which is quite a standard). The province's puppet president publicly begged the Kremlin and its generals to disband the unit.
The generals refused. At the time, their stubborn support for the outlaw Yamadaev Brothers seemed baffling - a quiet Chechnya was a longstanding Russian goal. But last week, it all made sense: Putin's military, which had been planning the invasion of Georgia for many months, intended to unleash the worst criminals in uniform it had on the Georgian people.
Why?
Two reasons: First, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin wants the Georgians to suffer - to really suffer. And Chechens are the world's subject-matter experts in atrocities.
Second, this gives the Russian army itself a veil of deniability....
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
lets get NATO together and move on these Russian troops and kick their rear ends out of there, fast!
- my mil’s excuse to beat up on George Bush as a reason for her not visiting Russia couldn’t have more perfectly illustrated BDS for me<<<
I found and joined a group, LOL -no not intending to post on it, at google groups a year or so ago, it was smart to join, as not long after that, it became a closed group.
It is a group of college professors, ex- gov employees and super educated people..........they all love Russia and whatever happens, it is all the fault of President Bush.
According to them, all of Russia’s action are the fault of the U.S.
Sometimes, I have to set on my hands to keep from answering the stupidity that these educated folks show, every day.
Brainwashing is alive and well today, and they have cornered the market on “it is Bush’s fault”, both here and in Russia.
Tell your mother in law, to see America first, to really see it, not stay in a fancy hotel, at a resort.
Svni is a sharp lady, and she is now beginning to recover, but it was a rough road for her, as she attempted to get the truth out of Russia and failed, just as they did at Beslan.
They still have not been told what the gas was that Russia fed into Nord Ost Theater, or what the antidote is for it.
Her daughter did not die from the gas, she died, think of her as a slender, petite, 14 year old, who was hauled out of the theater, thrown in a bus that was there for the bodies, 32 men were thrown on top of her and her lungs were crushed from the weight of the men....
I think the 32 men is the right number, it might have been 34.
Some of the pages on the Nord Ost victims, that Struwwelpeter translated were posted on our early threads of the World Terrorism thread, links to the threads will show up on the first page of each new thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2052529/posts?page=854
Thank you for the excellent links, I posted them on the World Terrorism thread also.
LOL and emailed them to the family, the part that wants to know what is really going on.
What a fantastic labor of love is the World Terrorism thread, new_arizona_Granny. I’ll look for this thread each day, thank you.
Thank you for the compliment.
I hope you will join in posting there also, it was never planned to be a granny only thread, and I can no longer handle as many posts each day as I did in the beginning.
Others viewpoints are welcome and that is how I learn.
There’s a ton of data in that particular thread. You bet I’m going to look for it. Add me to your ping, pls?
For the terror thread, I don’t have a ping list, but will be glad to ping some of the articles to you.
When I did have a ping list, people complained that their ping files had too much in it, so I try to only ping to the special areas of a person’s interests, so let me know what they are.
Glad to have you on the thread.
The Chechnya citizens are not happy with Kadyrov, they say he is serving Russia and not Chechnya.
Some are, some are not. But who really cares, Muslims always complain.
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