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"Russian troops on alert as Georgia tensions rise" by Vladimir Isachenkov, Associated Press | August 5, 2009
MOSCOW - Russian troops in the breakaway province of South Ossetia have been put on increased combat readiness amid rising tensions on the de facto border with Georgia, Kremlin officials said yesterday.
That's because the Russian supply line to Iran runs that way.
WWIII IS BEING PREPARED as I TYPE, world; however, the MSM will make it seem like a surprise!
Andrei Nesterenko, the spokesman for Russia’s Foreign Ministry, said the move was a response to Georgian provocations. “The most important thing now is to prevent escalation and not to allow skirmishes to grow into bigger clashes,’’ Nesterenko said.
Same time last year?
The situation near South Ossetia has become increasingly tense as the first anniversary of the Russian-Georgian war approaches Friday, with Georgia and Russia blaming each other for provocations and intentions to resume fighting.
And CUI BONO? Not the Russians.
President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev discussed the “lessons of last year’s Georgian crisis’’ in a telephone conversation late yesterday, the Kremlin said....
Well, apparently, the U.S. didn't learn theirs.
The 2008 conflict erupted after escalating exchanges of fire between Georgia and Moscow-backed South Ossetian forces.
Of course, the USraeli-backed Georgians started it, but what's one more distrotion and lie in the Zionist War Press of AmeriKa, 'eh?
Then maybe they will hear THIS (not on the web version of the paper, but in my printed copy):
"Russian subs patrolling off U.S. east coast: report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two nuclear-powered Russian attack submarines have been patrolling off the Eastern seaboard of the United States in recent days in a rare mission that has raised concerns inside the Pentagon, The New York Times reported on Tuesday.
I DON'T THINK they can make it ANY CLEARER, do you?
While the submarines had not taken any provocative action beyond their presence outside U.S. territorial waters, officials expressed wariness over Russia's motivation for ordering such an unusual mission, the newspaper said.
"Any time the Russian Navy does something so out of the ordinary it is cause for worry," a senior Defense Department official who has been monitoring reports on the submarines' activities told the newspaper.
Yet us hugging up to their borders, rigging elections, and attempting "velvet" coups is NO CAUSE for CONCERN!!
Related: Not In Our Back Yard!
The U.S. Navy was able to track the submarines as they made their way through international waters off the American coastline, the official told the newspaper.
"We've known where they were, and we're not concerned about our ability to track the subs," the official added. "We're concerned just because they are there."
One of the Russian submarines remained in international waters on Tuesday about 200 miles off the coast of the United States and the second sub made a port call in Cuba in recent days, the newspaper said, citing Defense Department officials who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Defense Department officials declined to speculate on what weapons might be aboard the two submarines. A Pentagon spokesman had no immediate comment on the report.
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Hell, our "Al-CIA-Duh" assets are even working INSIDE RUSSIA!
GROZNY, Russia - Five police officers were shot dead in an ambush in Chechnya, officials said yesterday, the latest in a string of attacks that have undermined the relative calm seen in the province in recent years.
The attack occurred amid growing violence in Russia’s wider North Caucasus region that has pushed local Islamist insurgencies up the Kremlin’s agenda. Late Sunday, militants attacked police cars near the town of Itum-Kale, 40 miles south of the regional capital Grozny, a police spokeswoman said....
In two separate attacks Sunday, three workers from Russia’s Emergency Ministry were gunned down in Ingushetia region, which neighbors Chechnya to the west, and a police officer was shot dead overnight in Dagestan to the east. Chechnya, the scene of two separatist wars since 1994, saw a sharp fall in violence after the Kremlin handed power to former rebel Ramzan Kadyrov in 2007. Rights groups said his forces achieved stability through a campaign of kidnap and torture.
Then he is not an ally of USrael, is he?
Would they mention those terrible things if he was?
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Yeah, censorship is a SOP at the BG.
Update: Russians move 2 SS-21 Tactical Nuke Ballistic Missile Launchers into South Ossetia
