Russia/Georgia Situation News & Updates

reply to post by -Rugged Shark-


Seems you don't know history to well and they said "Coming for Mikheil Saakashvili" sounds like they want to kill him

The Russian army - the ACTUAL Russian army - has said they are 'coming for Mikheil Saakashvili.'

Well then I support their decision. The west is trying to protect another dictator? Let Russia get his a** and go back to Russia.

Let's hope they won't kill more people to execute this task. The Georgian army should give him up... but the only ones supporting this nutjobs ARE the army...unfortunately.

This guy is a little Hitler. Multiplied the army budget by 30 times, imposed martial law, killing civilians, took over the press, hosted CIA torture camps and he's a coward... you all saw the video where his bodyguards were protecting him from ``a russian plane``.

Originally posted by -Rugged Shark-
reply to post by Rentor

 

errr, what has Hitler got to do with this? We don't know who started the conflict. So calling names etc is so far uncalled for. Please stick to providing news and not biased comments.

Godwins law mate
en.wikipedia.org...'s_law

Godwin's Law is often cited in online discussions as a caution against the use of inflammatory rhetoric or exaggerated comparisons, and is often conflated with fallacious arguments of the reductio ad Hitlerum form.

The rule does not make any statement whether any particular reference or comparison to Hitler or the Nazis might be appropriate, but only asserts that one arising is increasingly probable. It is precisely because such a comparison or reference may sometimes be appropriate, Godwin has argued[4] that overuse of Nazi and Hitler comparisons should be avoided, because it robs the valid comparisons of their impact. Although in one of its early forms Godwin's Law referred specifically to Usenet newsgroup discussions,[5] the law is now applied to any threaded online discussion: electronic mailing lists, message boards, chat rooms, and more recently blog comment threads and wiki talk pages.

reply to post by savetimerushonline


ITS ON TV, the update will come soon like it usually does.give it time man,takes awhile update this info onto sites

Aftonbladet reporter in Gori confirms that Russian tanks are entering the city.

source in swedish

Does anyone else have Sky News on their televisions?

I want other people to hear what I'm hearing.

ok so now bbcnews.com has reported it

reply to post by wolfmanjack


ah there is a law not to say Hitler that much?

reply to post by ArMaP


212.72.133.54:8080...

Originally posted by savetimerushonline
ok so now bbcnews.com has reported it

They are on the snail express of reporting....

Ok here is a video link

news.sky.com... Russia%2BGeorgia%2BSouth%2Bossetia%2Bconflict%253A%2Btanks%2Bback%2Bin%2BGori%2B


Video of latest news etc .. Seems to be old footage with new voice from what is going on now.

It is confirmed.. Russians are there in gori

Sky News presenter Andrew Wilson said he could not be sure the men who had pulled their car over were South Ossetian, but they did not seem to be Russian

It's not the Russians - the South Ossetians are "invading" Gori. Calm down, and stop watching SKY News -/

reply to post by absente


SKY news is FOX for british people.

Please don't watch either of them. You will only stupify.

Important update!

Sky News now says that the men who robbed their reporters were South Ossetian militia and not Russian.

A Sky News team has been robbed at gunpoint on the outskirts of the Georgian city of Gori by men thought to be South Ossetian separatist militia.

Sky News presenter Andrew Wilson said he could not be sure the men who had pulled their car over were South Ossetian, but they did not seem to be Russian.

He said the attackers were "wired" and very aggressive, pressing a gun to the head of their driver, and did not respond when shown British passports and told their victims were journalists.

They took their car and equipment, forcing them to return to Gori on foot.

Sky News correspondent Jason Farrell confirmed he had seen tanks on the streets in Gori, which has suffered extensively from Russian bombing raids.

Sky News

Since this was described as being on the outskirts of town, we cannot be certain that these are the same force as the tanks described earlier. If so, then it could mean that Russia has NOT entered Gori. However it's also possible that South Ossetia militia and Russian forces might be attacking in tandem.

[edit on 8/13/2008 by AceWombat04]

[edit on 8/13/2008 by AceWombat04]

OK, so they're SO troops. Which raises the question why the Russian "peacekeepers" didn't stop them.

reply to post by absente

South Ossetians are "invading" Gori.

Look, that may also be true - but I'm just repeating what I just saw and heard with my own eyes and ears. The reporter was standing with the Russian army in Gori. They told him that they are 'coming for Saakashvili.'

Clarification: It appears that the South Ossetian militia responsible for the looting are separate from the tanks in Gori, which now appear, according to a BBC reporter on the ground, to be Russian.

Violence has flared up in Georgia, where Russian tanks have been seen patrolling the town of Gori, says the BBC's Gavin Hewitt near the scene.

People leaving the city say there is looting going on involving South Ossetian separatists.

There are reports of cars being taken from residents at gunpoint on the entrances to the city.

A ceasefire is in place, but it seems to be very fragile in that particular area, our correspondent says.

Foreign ministers from the European Union are holding emergency talks on the crisis between Russia and Georgia.

news.bbc.co.uk...

I feel I must reiterate the point: He said that it is 100% absolutely the official Russian army - NOT militia (even though it appears they're there, too).

reply to post by -Rugged Shark-



Of course they won't stop them.

1. Georgia attacks SO
2. SO uses Russia to take down Georgia's military and infrastructure
3. Russia does it in 3 days
4. Ceasefire between Russia and Georgia
5. SO invades Gori
6. SO can do now what they won't and Russia will just say "Oh, but it's not us who attack Gori"
7. Russians keep their promise

South Ossetians never declared a ceasefire in the past few days. Of course they will now search for revenge, when the enemy is "down"

Its so simple.

reply to post by chips


ok abcnews.com googlenews are both running the story of russian tanks and army invading town!