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Russian soldiers take prisoners at Georgian port
Russian soldiers took 20 Georgian troops prisoner at a key port in western Georgia on today, blindfolding them and holding them at gunpoint, and commandeered American Humvees awaiting shipment back to the United States.
The move came as a small column of Russian tanks and armored vehicles left the strategic Georgian city of Gori in the first sign of a Russian pullback of troops from Georgia after a cease-fire intended to end fighting that reignited Cold War tensions. The two countries today also exchanged prisoners captured during their brief war.
However, Russian soldiers took Georgian servicemen prisoner in Poti on the Black Sea and commandeered the U.S. Humvees. An Associated Press photographer saw Russian trucks and armored personnel carriers leaving the port with about 20 blindfolded and handcuffed men riding on them.
Port spokesman Eduard Mashevoriani said the men were Georgian soldiers.
— Associated Press
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By KDF
August 19, 2008 9:54 AM | Link to this
I’m not real fond of our government right now, but I never have trusted the Rooskie government. Now they have our hum-vees.
It used to be that if a man stole your gun, or your horse, well, they were fighting actions. No longer. Why have we not discontiued our trade with China? What our govt does makes no sense to me and especially no sense to our Best Generation.
Let China bomb Pearl Harbor. We would probably have to sit down with them and talk about it!!! >