Photo evidence of US contractors training Georgian Military in Acts of sabotage

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US Contractors Training Georgian Military in Acts of Sabotage
Photographic Evidence
by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
 
Global Research, September 14, 2008

On September 14, 2008 a truck of Russian peacekeepers hit a roadside bomb in Abkhazia. It is not plausible that the Abkhazians are behind these attacks. Abkhazia wants Russian peacekeepers in its territory. The Abkhazian government blamed Georgian special forces as being behind the attack on the Russian peacekeepers.

The Russian peacekeepers in Abkhazia and South Ossetia were mandated under the flag of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), an organizational body of former Soviet republics, and as a direct result of agreements reached between Georgia, South Ossetia, and Abkhazia.

Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Russia have been accusing Georgia of carrying out acts of sabotage and terrorism against Abkhazians, Ossetians, and Russians for some time now.

The U.S. has also been accused of playing a major role in the tensions between Georgia, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Russia.

The law enforcement and security agencies of Abkhazia have handed over several pictures of American military personnel and/or contractors instructing Georgian military personnel on acts of sabotage. The first, second, and fourth photographs below show the instructor wearing a label saying U.S. contractor.

As a side note, the Rose Revolution, which brought the former New York City lawyer Mikheil N. Saakashvili into power in Georgia, was also engineered by the U.S. State Department and various NGOs acting as so-called conduits of democracy. Mikheil Saakashvili has in reality been a major blow to democracy in Georgia and civil liberties. He is unpopular, accused of corruption, and he has been curbing democractic rights in Georgia and arresting his political opponents. All with the support of the U.S. government and other NATO members.

Regardless of the claims by both sides there is clear photographic evidence that the U.S., like Israel, has been providing the Georgian military near the conflict zones with training.

The following is a series of photographs released by the the Russian military to the international media that expose U.S. involvement in Georgia. According to several Russian officials, including Sergey Markov of the Russian Duma, the Russian-Georgian War was in reality an American attack against the Russian Federation via their proxy puppet president Mikheil Saakashvili.

The photographs show training, conducted by foreign military personnel and/or contractors in sabotage techniques.

“The pictures clearly show men wearing uniforms with insignia of other countries standing next to Georgian peacekeepers. They are training the Georgians sabotage techniques, particularly how to make crude devices for subversion purposes and killing people,” Russia’s Chief Military Prosecutor Sergei Nikolayevich Fridinsky said at the press conference where the pictures were unveiled.

Returning full circle to the attack on Russian peacekeepers in Abkhazia, these are exactly the same type of devices being used.

September 14, 2008



Pics here..........http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10199

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they may be busted, but who is going to see the pictures.
I can pretty much assure you that they wont be airing them between Idol contestants

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they may be busted, but who is going to see the pictures.
I can pretty much assure you that they wont be airing them between Idol contestants

It's up to us, the media, to spread the truth.

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It's up to us, the media, to spread the truth.

working on a cool vid as we speak (also have a few clips (one with the fox news reporter running for his life from the crazy-ass georgians who are shooting random civilians)

I want to help expose this whole Georgia-Russia thing right now, guys. This is ridiculous.

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working on a cool vid as we speak (also have a few clips (one with the fox news reporter running for his life from the crazy-ass georgians who are shooting random civilians)

I want to help expose this whole Georgia-Russia thing right now, guys. This is ridiculous.

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UK Financial Times, September 5 2008

The US military provided combat training to 80 Georgian special forces commandos only months prior to Georgia’s army assault in South Ossetia in August.

The revelation, based on recruitment documents and interviews with US military trainers obtained by the Financial Times, could add fuel to accusations by Vlad¬imir Putin, Russian prime minister, last month that the US had “orchestrated” the war in the Georgian enclave.

The training was provided by senior US soldiers and two military contractors. There is no evidence that the contractors or the Pentagon, which hired them, knew that the commandos they were training were likely be used in the assault on South Ossetia.

A US army spokesman said the goal of the programme was to train the commandos for duty in Afghanistan as part of Nato-led International Security Assist¬ance Force. The programme, however, highlights the often unintended consequences of US “train and equip” programmes in foreign countries.

The contractors – MPRI and American Systems, both based in Virginia – recruited a 15-man team of former special forces soldiers to train the Georgians at the Vashlijvari special forces base on the outskirts of Tbilisi, part of a programme run by the US defence department.

MPRI was hired by the Pentagon in 1995 to train the Croatian military prior to their invasion of the ethnically-Serbian Krajina region, which led to the displacement of 200,000 refugees and was one of the worst incidents of ethnic cleansing in the Balkan wars. MPRI denies any wrongdoing.
US training of the Georgian army is a big flashpoint between Washington and Moscow. Mr Putin said on CNN on August 29: “It is not just that the American side could not restrain the Georgian leadership from this criminal act [of intervening in South Ossetia]. The American side in effect armed and trained the Georgian army.”
The first phase of the special forces training was held between January and April this year, concentrating on “basic special forces skills” said an American Systems employee interviewed by phone from the US army’s Fort Bragg.

The US military official familiar with the programme said the Pentagon hired the military contracting firms to help supplement its own trainers because of a lack of manpower.
The second 70-day phase was set to begin on August 11, a few days after war broke out in South Ossetia. The trainers arrived on August 3, four days before the conflict flared on August 7. “They would have only seen the inside of a hotel room,” quipped one former contractor. Neither MPRI nor American Systems would speak at length to the FT about the programme.

American Systems di¬rected questions to the US army’s Security Assistance Training Management Organisation (Satmo) at Fort Bragg, part of the US Army’s Special Warfare Center School. Satmo sends trainers, mainly special forces but also contractors, to countries such as Yemen, Colombia and the Philippines. Satmo trainers generally work with forces involved in counter-insurgencies, counter-terrorism or civil wars. A Satmo spokesman declined to comment.

One US military official familiar with the programme said it emerged from a Georgian offer to the US in December 2006 to send commandos to Afghanistan to work alongside American special operations forces.

According to this person, the US told Georgia that the offer should be made through Nato, which welcomed the offer but informed Georgia that its forces would need additional training to meet the military alliance’s standards.
While the programme is not classified, there is a lack of transparency surrounding it, though US military officials said the lack of publicity was not part of an effort to keep the programme secret. Other US military training programmes in Georgia have their own websites and photo galleries.

A US European Command spokesman confirmed the existence of the programme only after reviewing an e-mail sent by MPRI recruiters that was obtained by the FT. According to the e-mail, which did not mention Nato operations, former US special operations forces would receive $2,000 ($1,150, €1,400) a week plus costs as trainers. “We can confirm the pro¬gramme exists, but due to its nature and training ob¬jectives we do not discuss specifics to ensure the integrity of the programme and force protection of the trainers and participants,” he said.
Conflict in the Caucasus

The conflict between Russia and Georgia began on the night of August 7, when Georgian forces, including commando units, tanks and artillery, assaulted the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali.

Russia says that at least 133 civilians died in the attack, as well as 59 of its own peacekeepers, according to figures released this week.

In response Russia launched a mass invasion and aerial bombardment of Georgia, in which 215 Georgians have died, including 146 soldiers and 69 civilians.

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http://en.apa.az/news.php?id=89125

Tbilisi – APA. 1000 Israeli servicemen participated in the five-day military operations in South Ossetia, says the study titled "The Caucasian Litmus Test: Consequences and Lessons of the Russian- Georgian War in August 2008" prepared by Swedish Defence Research Agency.

The authors of the study consider that some Israeli servicemen even directly participated in the operations.

The study says that Israeli general Gal Hirsh was among thousands of Georgian servicemen who entered the territory of South Ossetia. Gal Hirsh is the person who prepared Israel’s military operations in Lebanon. Swedish Defence Research Agency says that General Gal Hirsh prepared technical points of Georgia’s operation in Tskhinvali.

Swedish experts link high-level relations between Tel Aviv and Georgia to Israel’s preparing attack to Iran and its intention to use Georgia as place of arms.
“According to the agreement reached between Tbilisi and Tel Aviv, Georgia rented two military aerodromes to Israel. Israeli fighter jets, which will take off from these aerodromes, will make air attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities,” they say.

The study notes that another interest of Tel Aviv in Georgia is connected with oil transit line.
“Israel buys 20 percent of the oil produced in Azerbaijan’s oil fields. This oil is delivered to Adana port through Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline and Israel is interested in the pipeline’s operation,” the study says.

Svenska Dagbladet newspaper writes that Moscow is aware of Israeli servicemen’s participation in the military operations in South Ossetia, but has not publicized this fact in order not to damage bilateral relations with this country.

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