Posted on 10/04/2008 1:09:01 PM PDT by edpc
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia blamed Georgia on Saturday for an explosion that killed Russian soldiers in Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia.
A senior Russian peacekeeping officer was among seven soldiers killed on Friday when a car blew up at the Russian peacekeepers' base in Tskhinvali, the South Ossetian capital, the Russian military said.
Russia's Interfax news agency quoted South Ossetia's Interior Ministry as saying a total of 11 people had been killed, including civilians. The RIA agency quoted a military spokesman as saying Colonel Ivan Petrik, the Russian peacekeepers' chief of staff, had been killed in his office.
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Russians ginning up another reason to have a conflict with Georgia. I doubt we'll see Russian media outlets declaring Georgia/S. Ossetia a quagmire, with no end in sight.
That is what I was thinking. Why would Georgia do anything at this point to piss off the Russians.
Peacekeepers? That’s a laugh.
Murdering your own citizens for political purposes is an old Fascist/Commie trick.
was not unaware of that but it makes perfect sense.
‘Under President Putin, Russian citizens in Chechnya have suffered crimes against humanity at the hands of Russian military forces. It was during Mr. Putins tenure as Prime Minister in 1999 that he launched the Second Chechen War following the Moscow apartment bombings. There remain credible allegations that Russia’s FSB had a hand in carrying out these attacks. Mr. Putin ascended to the presidency in 2000 by pointing a finger at the Chechens for committing these crimes, launching a new military campaign in Chechnya, and riding a frenzy of public anger into office. Since then, between 10 and 20 thousand Chechen civilians have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced by Russian security forces. At Putin’s direction, the Kremlin recently stage-managed an “election” in Chechnya that put Moscow’s hand-picked candidate in power.’
Not from some conspiracy nut, but John McCain.
http://www.friendsofmccain.com/news/dspnews.cfm?id=81
Next they’ll blame the VODKA because of all their drunks. Typical leftist revisionism, projection and manufacture of any “evidence” necessary to accomplish their goal (taking over a sovereign country).
Work accident?
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