From: josh lauer (jslauer@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Aug 08 2008 - 17:25:08 ART
I've been following this,
what you have mentioned below has been pretty clear to me, other than the
inference that the U.S. had anything to do with this. I've been following
this most of the day since we pull in just about every newsfeed in the world
where I work. what a lot of organizations are leaving out is the background
information behind the shelling, when you find that out it all becomes about
as clear as mud.
j
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From: "Roman Rodichev" <roman@iementor.com>
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 4:15 PM
To: "'Cisco certification'" <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Subject: very OT: this is ridiculous!
> i can't believe how irresponsible and misinforming American media is
>
> all Western media outlets are saying that Russia invaded and attacked
> Georgia, and McCain is only making it worse (god forbid he gets elected)
>
> while the truth is Georgian military had shelled the breakaway region of
> Georgia (Southern Ossetia) and killed over 1000 civilians over the last 24
> hours. Russian military and peacekeeping forces are trying to help
> helpless
> people in Southern Ossetia (where 80% of civilians hold Russian
> passports).
> This is the worst provocation I've seen in my lifetime to position the
> West
> against Russia. And they did it right on the first day of Olympics!!! I
> personally have no doubt that U.S. government instigated Georgia to start
> this attack.
>
> I'm sorry for bringing political and world issues here, you have a right
> to
> yell at me, but I needed to vent... and more importantly so many people in
> U.S. will watch CNN today and will think that Russia started this mess!!
>
> While frontline news on cnn.com say "Georgia 'under attack' as Russian
> tanks
> roll in", just read into the actual article and put 2 and 2 together...
> http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/08/08/georgia.ossetia/index.html
> CNN is saying as little as possible about the truth!!!!
>
> "South Ossetia, with a population of about 70,000 people, declared
> independence from Georgia in the early 1990s, but it was not
> internationally
> recognized. Many ethnic Ossetians feel close to Russia and have Russian
> passports and use its currency."
>
> "Georgian troops launched new attacks in South Ossetia late Thursday after
> a
> top government official said a unilateral cease-fire offer was met with
> separatist artillery fire." <---- these are the attacks that were started
> by Georgia Thursday night and killed over 1000 people in Southern Ossetia
>
>
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