Enjoy, readers. I got a laugh out of it.
"Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko dismissed the Georgian assertion as "not serious." He said any major troop movements would have been easily tracked by satellites used by NATO nations. "I would be grateful if they provide such satellite data to us and the entire global community, provide specific data," Nesterenko said sarcastically. "Allegations that they have eavesdropped on someone and heard something are simply not serious."
Oh, the WEST showed NO EVIDENCE AGAIN, huh?
"Georgia says cellphone records prove it was not aggressor" by Steve Gutterman, Associated Press | September 17, 2008
TBILISI, Georgia - Records of intercepted mobile phone calls indicate that Russian tanks and troops invaded before Georgia unleashed its offensive against South Ossetia, the Georgian government said yesterday, pressing its assertion that Russia was the aggressor in the war last month.
The recordings released yesterday by the Georgian government aimed to turn the tables against Moscow in the battle for the moral high ground after a five-day war that killed hundreds of people and deepened the rift between Russia and the West.
Russia has always asserted that Georgia was the aggressor, saying it only responded militarily to defend Russian citizens and peacekeepers in South Ossetia.
You know, the 15 or so that Georgia KILLED in the shelling!
Georgia said the recordings are phone calls between two South Ossetian border guards that prove Russian tanks and troops entered South Ossetia many hours before the Georgian offensive began late Aug. 7.
Phone calls? HA-HA-HA-HA!!!
The recordings were first released to The
My DOUBTS INCREASE!! The Jew York Times got the "scoop," huh?
Georgian Interior Ministry official Shota Utiashvili played two of the recordings for the AP and provided printed English translations from the original Ossetian.
Oh, yeah, now I'm convinced these forgeries are real!!!!
Utiashvili said the alleged intercepts indicate "that Russian heavy armor entered Georgia about 20 hours before the war started. It again proves our case that Georgia's move was self-defense, rather than an unprovoked attack," he said.
The recordings are purportedly intercepts of two exchanges between a South Ossetian border guard at the southern entrance to the Roki tunnel, which leads from the separatist Georgian province to Russia, with another guard at the headquarters in the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali. The northern entrance to the 2-mile-long tunnel is in Russia.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko dismissed the Georgian assertion as "not serious." He said any major troop movements would have been easily tracked by satellites used by NATO nations.
"I would be grateful if they provide such satellite data to us and the entire global community, provide specific data," Nesterenko said sarcastically. "Allegations that they have eavesdropped on someone and heard something are simply not serious."
According to the English translations of the recordings, in the first call, which purportedly began at 3:41 a.m. local time on Aug. 7, the South Ossetian guard stationed at the tunnel says, "They have moved armored personnel carriers out and the tunnel is full."
Pffffffttt!!!
In the next call, about 10 minutes later, the guard says "armor and people" had emerged from the tunnel. Asked whether there was a lot of armor, the guard says, "Well, tanks, BMPs and those things."
Oh, yeah, I'm convinced now!!!!
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