Russia accuses foreign nationals in Georgia war

[inanna]

Source: AP

MOSCOW (AP) -- Russian investigators on Tuesday charged that volunteers from the United States and a number of other countries fought on the side of Georgia in its war against Russia.

Russian news agencies reported that Aleksandr Bastyrkin, chairman of an investigative committee with the Russian prosecutor's office, said the mercenaries included nationals of the U.S., Ukraine, the Czech Republic and Turkey.

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The U.S. Embassy in Moscow declined immediate comment. A spokesman for Ukraine's Defense Ministry was not immediately available and UNA-UNSO, the Ukrainian nationalist organization whose members Bastyrkin accused of taking part in the fighting, did not respond to an e-mail request for comment.

In Prague, Czech Defense Ministry spokesman Jan Pejsek said that no member of the Czech national army took part in the fighting and that authorities were not aware of any volunteers participating either. Authorities in Turkey could not be immediately reached for comment.



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[acmavm]

1. When something says "The U.S. Embassy in Moscow declined

immediate comment" I start wondering how much manipulating and deceiving they have to do to get their story straight.

Call me jaded.

[McCamy Taylor]

2. Confirms what other sources have already said. And IDF trained the Georgians, too.

That is your sign of US involvement, since the IDF is our elite hired mercenary force.

[TheLastMohican]

3. Sure the US contractors (read mercenaries) were there

they even have their names



Looks like demolishion experts. What did the teach the georgians to blow?

[SouthernVoter]

4. Maybe they were teaching them...

...to blow up tanks and troops that invaded their country.

Oh wait, Putin says the Georgians started the war in their own country, that's right. Just like Bush said Iraq started the war with the US.