SORCHA:
August 12, 2008
Russian Troops Report US And Israeli Soldiers Killed In Georgian War
 
We have received our first report from Sister Nikolaevna who had traveled from Moscow to Vladikavkaz to assist in the aiding of the refuge children that have been pouring into Russia from South Ossetia after the brutal Georgian destruction of their homeland, and which details that ‘many’ foreign fighters have been killed after Russian Military units began their liberation of both South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
According to staff officers accompanying Colonel-General Anatoly Nogovitsyn returning from the battlefront, at least 7 foreign fighters identified as American and Israel soldiers have been found among the rubble of the now freed, but destroyed, capital city of South Ossetia,  Tskhinvali.
The 3 dead American soldiers, these reports state, were identified by their uniform patches as belonging to the United States 173 Airborne Brigade assigned to the US’ Southern European Command, and who just a few weeks ago were airlifted to Georgia for what was described as a ‘war game’ exercise with Georgian Military Forces preparing for their unprovoked attack upon the Russian peoples of South Ossetia.
The 4 dead Israeli soldiers, these reports continue, are believed to part of the Israeli governments sponsored mercenary forces who have previously wreaked havoc in the US protected South American puppet state of Colombia , and to which Israel is now its largest weapons supplier.  
Israel has, likewise, become the United States choice for funneling weapons to Georgian Military Forces, but are attempting to quickly back away from their part in this most unnecessary war, and as we can read as reported by the Haaretz News Service:
Unfortunately, however, the peoples of the Western World, especially the United States, are not being told the truth about this war, and Georgia’s unprovoked attack upon South Ossetia and, instead, are being told by their propaganda media organs that Russia is the aggressor in this conflict, though Russian forces have done nothing more than what any sovereign Nation would do when invaded by a foreign military who began mass killings of civilians.
Russian Leaders Putin and Medvedev [both pictured top left] are, also, reported to be enraged by the United States providing an immediate airlift for Georgian Military Forces serving in Iraq , and which Military Analysts states make the United States an active participant in this war.
To the most unfortunate outcome of this new war for the American people is how, once again, they have been lied to by their War Leaders to support a brutal dictatorship, and as best pointed out by the AntiWar News Service:
As today brings to our senses another senseless slaughter of innocent civilians, and young soldiers doing the bidding of their Nations masters, one can only wonder when the American people themselves will awaken to full horror of the atrocities being perpetrated in their name by those seeking to do nothing more than enrich themselves upon the blood of innocents.  
 
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August 11, 2008 4:09 PM ...fw10:

Bush And His Zionist Pals - Stupid Is As Stupid Does

 
8/9/08

Karl Schwarz

I was wondering why Vladimir Putin was representing Russia at the Opening Ceremonies of the Olympic Games. Within minutes, the news broke that Russia had moved an armored division into South Ossetia and Russian jets were pounding targets in Georgia.
Oops. There goes another Bush Pipedream up in smoke.
Of course, the Western Zionist media reported only the US/Zionist/CIA and Georgia side of what happened. Russia did NOT attack, Russia responded to an attack on Russian peacekeepers that killed 10 and injured more. Russia has also moved to protect Russian citizens who live in South Ossetia.
America, if you want to avert a major war you need to turn off the TV, get on the telephone and rock DC to its stupid evil core.(...)
That is a MONUMENTALLY STUPID plan, so read on and I will explain why it is so.
Such an insane blunder will set the stage for a military confrontation between the US/UK and Russia/China.
Folks, that is Two Superpowers against One Superpower and a wannabe, has-been. The French contribution to that armada does not matter. Going to WAR without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion.
Do not email these sleazy morons in DC, they delete most on the spot. Using email to contact those whores is just another cheap trick to keep you thinking they give a rat's ass about what you and the American pubic thinks.
Intead - Call the bastards, send them faxes but do not waste precious time emailing those lying DC dirtbags.
Make your voice known LOUD AND CLEAR ­ DO NOT ATTACK IRAN! DO NOT PUT UP WITH ANY ZIONIST JEW ISRAELI ATTACK ON IRAN!
Read on and you will understand why.
The world is at a very, VERY dangerous stage right now and the perpetrators are the US, UK and Israel. Iran, Russia and China have demonstrated a remarkable level of restraint...but that is now past. The Bear is fully-aroused and pissed. The Chinese have had it with Junior's vile insults and the Zionist efforts to threaten their vital oil and gas deals in Iran and the Caspian.
These people are not kidding; the US liars and gangsters are not going to get their way...on anything.
If you have been keeping up with the news out of the Caspian Basin area, Georgia attacked South Ossetia and killed 10 Russian peacekeepers. South Ossetia wishes to be part of Russia again, not part of Western/CIA/Zionist influenced Georgia. Many of the people in South Ossetia are Russian citizens and Russia has moved to protect them. And Russia is 100% morally-justified in doing so.(...)
BushCo is desperate to get a pipeline through Georgia to the Black Sea. That is one of the few routes they have out of the Caspian Basin's landlocked oil and gas deals.
Georgia attacked, killed 10 Russian peacekeepers and now several thousand residents of South Ossetia have been killed and wounded. The Russian response was swift and empathetic. The Russian Bear is ANGRY and this Idiot BushCo plan is not going to be tolerated any longer.(...)
All America heard was the handpicked Zionist President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, whining that the Big Bully Russia was attacking poor little Georgia with 'aggression.' They are NOT admitting it was the US and Georgia who started things.
Pay attention ­ THE RUSSIAN BEAR IS MAD...AND IT CHARGED WHEN IT WAS ATTACKED.
 Russia did NOT start this crap - George W Bush, Zionists and Mikheil Saakashvili did.(...)
It is MORE than blatantly obvious/odious that BushCo planned this to coincide with the Opening Ceremonies of China's 2008 Beijin Olympics. That way, Bush could be in Beijing and appear to have nothing to do with Georgia starting another 'Bush Dirty Diaper Op.' Trust me, folks, this has turned into another soiled Bush Diaper already, and Russia is not going to back up or back down. The BushCo perps are feeling for their first time what Russian military might looks like and feels like.
Putin, Medvedev and the Russian military have warned the EU and the US many, many times ­ STOP pushing EU and NATO membership to our borders. No one in the EU, NATO, London or Washington DC bothered to listen or take the Russians seriously enough.
Just this morning while America slept, Russia has moved in more armor, more airstrikes into Georgia and the EU is panicking. This time Bush went too far, and even the UN is having fits trying to draft a letter that is acceptable to all parties asking for a cease fire.(...)
The Russian response to the lunatic Bush 'Defensive' Missile Shield is they are now putting deadly Russian missiles in place to take out Junior's skyrockets. ...(...)
The US recently announced that it may close the Strait of Hormuz...so Iran cannot export its oil, gas and petrochemicals. A blockade of Iran.
You can be absolutely certain that CHINA is not going to tolerate that. Iran is supplying it oil and liquefied natural gas under a $400 billion contract and Iran also supplies India, Indonesia, Malaysia and most of the Pacific Rim with its oil and LNG. Much of the energy needs of the EU, in fact, comes from Iran. I know for a fact that Austria gets 25% of its energy supplies from Iran, hence, it is not backing the BushCo/Zionist plan to attack Iran.
Many in the EU are going to bolt because much of the oil and natural gas to the EU comes from Iran.
Even Angela Merkel-Schmerkel is whining about .........../...
Yeah, I can almost hear her now: "Germany supports Zionist desires to attack Iran and save the world from Iranian nukes. And, oh, by the way, Germany is so very sorry for the (Holohoax) Holocaust.' The German people were livid at her groveling before the Knesset in Tel Aviv.
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Listen clearly - No One is going to sit still for a US naval blockade of Iran, NO ONE. Both Russia and China will respond and it will be with force.
Russia has just made it abundantly clear to Georgia what the price is for killing Russians under Lunatic Bush/Zionist Plans.
Russia can easily crush the entire country of Georgia, and will do just that if it does not cease and desist. They are showing the scenes on BBC out of London, RTR Planeta out of Moscow, ProSeiben 7 out of Germany and other television stations. Russia is striking back in force and they are increasing their ability by the hour to put more troops, tanks and jets into position to crush Georgia if that little Bush Ally wants to play hardball with the Russian Bear.
/... there are many Russian contractors and Russian technicians at the Iranian Nuclear sites that Bush and Israel wish to bomb.
There is no way to avoid killing or injuring RUSSIANS at those sites in Zionist obsession to take over Iran and destroy it as they have done to IRAQ.
/..... let the US attack Iran and see how fast Russia and China ram reality up America's butt and down its throat.(...)
It was not reported anywhere in sufficient detail in the Western Zionist Media what Putin said while meeting the Iranian Government in Tehran months ago. (And surviving yet another CIA/MOSSAD assassination plot).
Putin made it crystal clear that Russia will NOT tolerate ANY attack on Iran from ANY of the Caspian Basin nations, and that includes the new military bases that BushCo has put in those nations under 'no bid' contracts to its buddies.
The Caspian Basin nations of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan got the message loud and clear. Russia is next door, stand down and do not aid and abet the US/Zionist stupidity.
Putin also made it more than clear that 'ANY ATTACK ON IRAN WILL BE VIEWED AS AN ATTACK ON RUSSIAN INTERESTS.' Get it??(...)
Right there is where Americans need to pause at the edge of the abyss and consider whether they want to see the end of America.
That is exactly what is going on in Georgia right now. We can thank the Stupid is as Stupid Does President, George W Bush, for wrapping poor Georgia into yet another Bush Dirty Diaper. People are dying right now in Georgia and Mikheil Saakashvili secured permission from the Georgian Parliament at about 11am Central Europe Time to invoke Martial Law in Georgia.
That is a clear indication of one of two possible things. First, he wants the people off the street so they can focus on survival of Georgia. Secondly, he is bracing himself because Russia is about to roll right OVER Georgia with Russian tanks and air force, and put an end to the Bush idiot plan of taking a pipeline across Georgia.
Mikheil Saakashvili accused Russia of 'aggression against Georgia" ('arf-arf') but has yet failed to admit it was Georgia that killed the 10 Russian peacekeepers. That lunacy had to come from George W Bush and his Zionist 'strategists.'
The Zionist Media does not want Americans to know that. The MSM does not want Americans to know that if there is an attack on Iran, Americans are going to get to see what Russian Fury looks like, up close and personal.
The Zionist MSM wants American Sheeple braying and focusing on the 'Official Lies' and not that Russia has made it abundantly clear that the utterly bogus Global War on Terror fraud     is OVER.
The gloves are off, the brass knuckles are on, the Russian tanks are rolling and the skies are full of Russian jet fighters.
Here is what DC and Tel Aviv are NOT telling you,America.(...)
Again, US and UK and Israel are lying to the world. Nothing remarkable about that...it's just business as usual for these snakes. That is all they do...lie. Americans need to wake up and smell the coffee. Or they will be smelling a huge wars and counting hundreds of thousands...or millions...of dead..
This is not a game, America. BushCo, London and Tel Aviv are lying again, and Russia has made it damned clear that no more crap will be tolerated.
If the US DARES to throw up a naval blockade of Iran and shuts down the Straits, neither Russia nor China will put up with it for a second. Get it?
Now, unless you want to see the United States confronted in WAR with both Russia and China, get off your ass and CALL the bastards in DC, NOW.
 
Karl
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August 11, 2008 12:40 PM

Photos of George W. Bush 'Drunk As A Monkey' At the Olympics

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August 11, 2008 2:01 PM ...fw10:

GEORGE SOROS & THE GEORGIAN CONFLICT

August 9, 2008
THE GEORGIAN “ROSE REVOLUTION” was funded by the Hungarian born Jewish financier, George Soros. The Rose Revolution forced President Eduard Shevardnadze out of office on November 23 2003 (St George’s Day in Georgia).
Soros installed Shevardnadze’s young protege, Mikhail Saakashvili, as the new and current President of Georgia. During the three months before the coup, Saakashvili, who was schooled & groomed in America, was glorying in lavish treatment from the Zionist led US State Department and the Jewish controlled media. And in the previous summer Soros had flown Saakashvili and his followers to a “revolution training seminar” in Belgrade Serbia.
Back in Georgia from his training by Soros in Belgrade, Saakashvili led thousands of demonstrators brandishing fresh red roses in their takeover of the President’s palace. This occurred in the freezing Georgian winter when fresh roses had to be flown in — courtesy of the Jew, George Soros, who had spent $42 million on his new Georgian puppet. No sooner had Saakashvili taken office that he vowed to bring the Russian supported South Ossetia & Abkhazia breakaway provinces back under Georgian control.
Soros and the US State Department, indeed, had publicly committed themselves to propping up the current anti-Russian Georgian President, Mikhail Saakashvili, considered by many to be an authoritarian thug. A confrontation between Russia and the US was now in the works. And it has come to a head with the recent conflagration in South Ossetia.
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A BOILING HOT GEORGIAN COLD WAR
AMERICA’S PRO GEORGIAN POLICY is explained by Georgia’s access to the Caspian Sea’s oil wealth. The US backed British Petroleum (BP) pipeline, running from the Caspian Sea through Georgia, then below the Black Sea into Turkey, delivers oil to Europe and the US. The US & its European allies have been competing with Russia for control of the Caspian oil rich region.
The pipeline runs only 60 miles south of the South Ossetian capital, Tskhinvali, which sits right smack in the middle of northern Georgia. South Ossetia broke away from Georgia in the early 1990s and exists as an independent state with full Russian support. Most South Ossetian residents hold Russian passports.
The US considers Georgia as an ally and supports its desire to join NATO and the EU. Moscow opposes both goals. Georgia’s pro Western stance has riled Russia because Moscow regards the entire region as its own sphere of influence.
In April 2002, the US started the “Georgia Train and Equip Program” which involved US training of Georgian forces. Soon after, Georgian militaries were sent to Iraq to form part of the US/UK occupation forces there. With regard to the current South Ossetia conflict, the US has been supplying Georgia with both equipment and military advisers. And Russia is now accusing the US of orchestrating the war.
Moreover, the US partner in Zionist international hegemony, the State of Israel, assisted Georgia in its August 8 2008 attack on the South Ossetian capital, Tskhinvali, with a bevy of its own military advisers. This brought the conflict to a military climax.
Thus, Georgia will continue to be a cold war hotspot with Russia and the US competing to control the Caspian oil bonanza. And the Jew, George Soros, and his puppet, Mikhail Saakashvili, have brought this new cold war centered in Georgia to a boiling head.
Evidently these two partners in political crime never read:
“God is not mocked, whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap…”

For More See: “George Soros: An Evil Rothschild Agent!” Click Here
And: “US State Department Is Run By Jews” Click Here
And: “A Christian Russia Emerging” Click Here
And: “Is Putin A True Christian Leader?” Click Here
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August 11, 2008 5:00 PM    ....  POSTED at fw10:

The Cabal's plan to rape the Earth and flee to Mars

07 August, 2008

Friends,

Yesterday the media, including MSN News, ran a story that the Mars Lander Rover had taken soil samples near Mars's North Pole and found perchlorate, a toxin in the soil, "thus casting doubt that Mars could support life", NASA said.

NASA of course is under the control of the National Security Agency, whose head, Lt. General Keith B. Alexander, is a Cabal asset.

Since 1997 NASA has established a "cut-out" contractor, Malin Space Science Systems, Inc. (MSSS), to control the images coming from satellite cameras orbiting Mars. Even though those images were taken with your tax dollars, MSSS's head, Michael Malin gets to decide which images of Mars's surfaces you are fit to see, and when.

Malin works cooperatively with the Cabal neo-Nazis at Jet Propulsion Laboratory and NASA to project to the public the false image that Mars is a lifeless desert without adequate air.

The deliberately- misleading "perchlorate soil" story put out yesterday is another part of the lie the Cabal wants you to believe: that no one can survive on Mars.

Just what a tremendous lie that is was revealed, perhaps karmicly, by another development yesterday.

Yesterday I received information from an informant that NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Mars Orbital Camera had taken photos of Mars's Southern Polar Region which revealed forests of pine trees growing amidst the Martian polar snowfields! He identified a couple of images (buried among the tens of thousands) which show the pine forest.

One example of this Martian forest scene is at:

http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/ r03_r09/full_ gif_non_map/ R09/R0903461.gif

A pulled-back focus view is at:

http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/ r03_r09/full_gif_non_map/ R09/R0903462.gif
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Wait a minute! If Mars is a lifeless desert with inadequate air, what are forests of pine trees doing growing on Mars?

You mean NASA and JPL and MSSS have been lying to us for years?!

Yes; and unfortunately the story gets even worse.

I consulted with the Zeta, and they confirmed that the satellite photos show real trees. However, those trees are Earth pines planted in great numbers near the snowy Southern Polar Region of Mars!

Pine stock from Earth that has been planted on Mars! Planted by whom?

 

Human technicians working for the Cabal 

And why did the Cabal plant the snowfields of southern Mars with pine trees?

The Zeta confirmed that this forestation project has been a part of a Terra-forming (making Mars more Earth-like) effort by the Cabal, in order to set up an Alternative- 3*-type home-like refuge for the Cabal, when the Cabal abandon Earth after they have extracted every resource and despoiled it to death.

The Cabal don't care if their multinational corporations extract every mineral, pollute every stream, cause the ocean to go lifeless, and eventually wrap the Earth permanently in Beijing-like smog. Why? Because the Cabal have their Escape Plan.

When Earth becomes no longer desirable to live on, they will fly off in their antigravity craft to pristine Mars, and leave behind the remnant of Humanity to dwindle in a collapsed ecosystem here.

The Zeta consultants confirmed that this indeed is precisely the pre- planning the Cabal have been engaged in.

But there are two flaws in the Cabal's plans.

The first flaw is that they never expected anyone to discover their plans.

And their second flaw was revealed when I received consultation from Councillor For the Watchers about the Cabal Escape Plan. He said,

"Councillor of Earth,
"Mars will be quarantined of said [Escape] actions, as the Cabal factions will not be able to seek refuge there. It will not be allowed [by Star Nations].
"I bid you well."
- Councillor For the Watchers"

So, there you have it. No Cabal Escape Plan that will actually work.

Star Nations will block any Cabal space vessels from carrying Cabal types to escape to Mars.

The Cabal are stuck here on the Earth they have been busily polluting and ravaging.

Will the Cabal use this expose as a wake-up call that their Escape Plan is busted, and that they need to buckle down and stop their polluting technology, move to the clean energy and technology given by Star Nations which they have confiscated, and take environmental restoration seriously?

Since the Cabal are populated with sociopaths and narcissists, don't bet on it.

But at least they may see it as in their own self-interests to stop undermining the environmental movement.

It is up to us to wrest away control of technology and corporate business practices, and redirect them in just and non-polluting directions, and work to complete the environmental restoration which Earth needs.

in the light,

Richard Boylan, Ph.D.

 Website: www.drboylan.com

www.niburu.nl/index.php

http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/space/space_exploration/news.php?q=1218495645

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WE ARE ALREADY ON MARS - "MY TRIP TO MARS"
Posted By: Rayelan
Date: Friday, 31 May 2002, 2:05 a.m.

http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?read=19997

 

ROTHCHILDS CONDUCT THE "RED SYMPHONEY"
Shocking evidence! 1938 Stalinist police (NKVD) interrogation of a founder of the Communist International... 50-page transcript of his interrogation, dubbed "The Red Symphony," was not meant to become public. It confirms that the Rothschild-Illuminati planned to use Communism to establish a world dictatorship of the super rich!!
By Henry Makow Ph.D.

 

http://www.rumormillnews.com/PROSPERITY.htm

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 more  from fw10:
 
... posted.

August 1, 2008

Israel has entered the last phase of its war preparations against Iran. Recent resignation of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, a proponent of negotiations and concessions, and several other factors speak well for the imminent war. Israel’s recent creation of the US missile defense shield can be another addition on the list. The US administration also tries to use the Israeli forces to play a dirty trick on Russia.
The resignation of the Israeli prime minister has become another reason to raise the subject of imminent war between Israel and Iran. Many Israeli politicians dislike Ehud Olmert’s views on the need to conduct negotiations with neighboring states, as well as his intention to discuss an opportunity to return Golan Heights to Syria.
There are other aspects which testify to a possible war in the nearest future. The USA is going to ship a radar station to Israel to track down missile launches. Furthermore, the United States intends to use the radar together with Israel . The USA will provide Israel with early missile launch prevention information, as well as technical and financial aid for the creation of the missile defense system.
According to Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, the radar station will be deployed in Israel before the new US administration officially takes the White House in January 2009.
The US administration believes that the radar station is required to defend Israel against Iranian missiles. It does not go about the deployment of interceptor missiles yet. Nevertheless, it is obvious that the distance to Iran is almost the same as the distance to Russia, which vehemently opposes the deployment of US missile system in Europe.
The station will give the USA an opportunity to use its radar towards Russia freely, without any explanations or control. In addition, the station will give Israel more confidence in its war preparations.
Israel acts by the law of war and seriously prepares to attack Iran’s nuclear objects. It transpired that the top Israeli administration had had a secret meeting with architect of Operation Opera, Retired General Aviam Sela. It was Sela, who planned the surprised Israeli air strike against the Iraqi nuclear reactor 27 years ago. In addition to Opera, the general also elaborated and conducted several operations to destroy Syrian air defense batteries in Lebanon during the First Lebanese War in 1982.
Israeli officials have been talking about Iranian nuclear threat for about a decade. However, now is the time, when Tel Aviv seriously considers a question about the use of military force against Iran . The nuclear issue is obviously the key question in the opposition between Iran and Israel, but there is a more global question, which explains why Israel fears Iran.
Iran strives to obtain the status of a regional superpower against the background of its open hostility against Israel. Iran’s views and intentions pose a threat to Israel ’s role and place in the Middle East. Iranian nuclear weapons endanger the existence of the State of Israel even if the weapons are used with the deterrent value only.
One shall assume that Israel may claim its entire responsibility for the start of a military action against Iran, if the action takes place, of course. Ex-head of Mossad, Shabtai Shavit said that Israel would not be waiting for USA’s permission to attack Iran ’s nuclear facilities.

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Nevertheless, there is a number of circumstances, which do not let the USA launch a large-scale military action against Iran. The current political stability in Iraq and Afghanistan leaves much to be desired. A limited contingent of coalition troops in Afghanistan is obviously not enough to conduct large-scale military operations in the south of the war-torn nation. US and coalition troops make up about 200,000 people in the region. The Pentagon cannot provide more.
Iran will not miss a chance to strike back on oil pipelines and oil structures of neighboring Arab states. Even a slight military action in the region may cause serious damage to the world economy. The European Union, China and India will suffer from the possible fuel crisis most. The USA would not mind weaker competitors, of course. It is an open secret that the economies of those industrial giants largely depend on crude shipments from the Persian Gulf. The war could be a good reason.

Israel Ready to Attack Iran Without USA's Permission
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August 11, 2008 12:49 PM

War Between Rusia and Georgia Orchestrated from USA

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In the meantime, Russian officials believe that it was the USA that orchestrated the current conflict. The chairman of the State Duma Committee for Security, Vladimir Vasilyev, believes that the current conflict is South Ossetia is very reminiscent to the wars in Iraq and Kosovo.

“The things that were happening in Kosovo, the things that were happening in Iraq – we are now following the same path. The further the situation unfolds, the more the world will understand that Georgia would never be able to do all this without America. South Ossetian defense officials used to make statements about imminent aggression from Georgia, but the latter denied everything, whereas the US Department of State released no comments on the matter. In essence, they have prepared the force, which destroys everything in South Ossetia, attacks civilians and hospitals. They are responsible for this. The world community will learn about it,” the official said.

In the meantime, it became known that the Georgian troops conducted volley-fire cleansings of several South Ossetian settlements, where people’s houses were simply leveled.

“The number of victims with women, children and elderly people among them, can be counted in hundreds and even thousands,” a source from South Ossetian government in the capital of Tskhinvali said.(...)

english.pravda.ru/hotspots/conflicts/09-08-2008/106046-russia_georgia-0

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