Putin Sends In Muslims To Terrorize Christians
THE DOGS OF WAR: A ragtag group of mercenaries from this Vostok Battalion has made its ominous presence known in the South Ossetian capital, Tskhinvali.
DEVIL SENT DOWN TO GEORGIA
by Ralph Peters - (NYPost)
OVER the weekend, photographic proof emerged that the Russians used murderous Chechen mercenaries to do their dirtiest dirty work in Georgia: The ragtag unit in question is so vicious that, last April, Chechnya’s Russian-installed “president” demanded it be disbanded.
War snaps taken by Russian photojournalist Arkady Babchenko have been circulating among intelligence personnel. The shots reveal far more to the West than Babchenko realized.
Amid photos of the horrors of war, grateful South Ossetians and triumphant Russian troops, one series leapt out at me as a former intel officer: Bearded irregulars riding atop Russian-built armored vehicles (old BMPs, for the military-hardware buffs). The vehicles had been splashed with white lettering.
What did the scrawls announce to the world? These thugs proudly proclaimed that they’re Chechens serving in the Vostok (”East”) Battalion commanded by Badrudin Yamadaev - who shares a reputation for gangland violence with his brother, Ruslan.
Last spring, mercenaries from the Vostok Battalion indulged in a bloody gangland shoot-’em-up in the city of Gudermes, near their home turf. The mafia-on-steroids brutality was too much even for the Chechens (which is quite a standard). The province’s puppet president publicly begged the Kremlin and its generals to disband the unit.
The generals refused. At the time, their stubborn support for the outlaw Yamadaev Brothers seemed baffling - a quiet Chechnya was a longstanding Russian goal. But last week, it all made sense: Putin’s military, which had been planning the invasion of Georgia for many months, intended to unleash the worst criminals in uniform it had on the Georgian people.
Why?
Two reasons: First, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin wants the Georgians to suffer - to really suffer. And Chechens are the world’s subject-matter experts in atrocities.
Second, this gives the Russian army itself a veil of deniability: When Putin’s spokesmen insist that the Russian military isn’t involved in the worst savagery in Georgia, they’re technically telling the truth (if we don’t count air attacks and artillery bombardments), since the Chechen thugs on their payroll are on the job.
But why would those Chechens paint up their armored vehicles to tell the world they’d arrived in Georgia? First, they’re proud of their fearsome reputation. Second, they didn’t want Russian regulars to mistake them for the enemy and pull the trigger.
The result?
Contrary to Russian claims that “volunteers” from the North Caucasus rushed in to aid their South Ossetian brethren, we now have proof that the Kremlin sent in hired guns. It’s no accident that Putin’s code-name for this operation is “Scorched Earth.”
And there’s plenty else to be outraged about - not all of it Russia’s fault. Images of dead and disfigured Georgian soldiers show them wearing US-surplus canteens, boots and helmets, or equipped with antique US anti-tank weapons. After the Georgians did all their tiny country could to support us in Iraq, all we gave them was cast-off junk - thanks to Congress and the State Department.
Our military was only allowed to train the Georgians for peacekeeping, anti-terrorism and small-unit tactics. The Georgians gave us all they had, and we gave them crap. The Bush administration should hang its wobbly head in shame.
Meanwhile, Chechen rapists and butchers are celebrating - and picking over the US gear the Russians captured and didn’t even want.
More pictures here
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The stupid Russians are just asking for it aren’t they? Don’t they have better things to do like fix their sh!tty country. How much longer is everybody going to tolerate their parading around with outdated crap weapons as some kind of show of force? The tolerance in Europe is ridiculous because this isn’t even our stage, they may make it that way though.
August 19th, 2008 at 7:44 pm“…Images of dead and disfigured Georgian soldiers show them wearing US-surplus canteens, boots and helmets, or equipped with antique US anti-tank weapons.”
The above paragraph sounds like it should have been published in Pravda.
The U.S. military is constantly updating and improving its equipment. The “antique” weapons given to Georgia could have been ten-years old, or two-years-old. And they would have been in excellent working order.
Used canteens and helmets are sometimes sold in surplus stores. Obviously, they’re made to last a very long time. The boots would have been new. In the U.S., veterans keep their boots.
A Georgian contributor to this website recently wrote that the U.S. has done more for Georgia than all of Europe combined. When is the MSM going to report this? As far I’m concerned, the MSM needs to hang its head in shame, not Pres. Bush.
August 19th, 2008 at 11:40 pmpres bush better be planning a response beside the flapping of the lips, i’m sure nato telling russia, there relations will be strained if they don’t pull out, put the fear of GOD in putin. the world is going to go through hard times if we attack, BUT that’s nothing compared to whats going to happen if we don’t attack. TIME TO STEP UP MR PRESIDENT AND MAKE THE TOUGH DECISION!
August 20th, 2008 at 2:59 amHow’s that vacation going down there in Crawford Tx. going there Jor’ge Booooosh?
Thanks for nothing—-you got a few months left on the damn job you POS, and you sit and watch this shit happen!
August 20th, 2008 at 3:22 amDisgusting———–
Can we bomb them, now?
August 20th, 2008 at 3:25 ambomb bomb bomb lets kill everybody..that mentality doesnt work anymore
August 20th, 2008 at 4:05 amapparently it works for russians….
August 20th, 2008 at 6:25 am