Originally posted by RedDanDoc
Its obvously a Georgian but then thats what soldiers do not that condone this behaviour but I cannot understand the Nievety in this thread.
But then the Russians are Angels arent they. 
[edit on 8-9-2008 by RedDanDoc]
I agree you even see he had a black eye let me guess he got that falling off a tank? In the so called interview they were scared you can see it in
there eyes it was not an admission out of guilt but fear. Russians obviously pushed him trying to say the Americans were involved and he said not in
my unit but they were here to train troops for Iraq. Obviously only mentioned because his captors wanted him to. as for the cell phone video it was an
apc mount the noises you heard were the people inside and those clangs you heard were bullets hitting the apc . I know hell brought back some
nightmares for me. Its very scary being in an apc in combat you wouldn't believe the stuff said to release tension you sometimes have to scream. Kind
of like riding a roller coaster you go down the hill your natural reaction is to scream do to fear and adrenaline. If you watch the video closely he
is scanning buildings just what your supposed to do when entering a hostile town nothing more. All this video proved is that these people were scared.
Dont think for 1 second that the Georgians were not attacked it was a war. And the casualty lists meen nothing because you dont know which side killed
who and when where they caught in crossfire there is no facts and will never be that is the horrer when armies clash.
Available estimates put the South Ossetian forces at a mere 2,500 officers and men, or 16,000, including reservists. They are armed with 15 T-55 and
T-72 tanks, 24 Gvozdika and Akatsiya self-propelled artillery units, 12 D-30 towed howitzers, six multiple-launch rocket systems, four 100-mm Rapir
anti-tank weapons, and more than 30 mortars. In addition, the South Ossetian army has 22 infantry combat vehicles, 24 APCs, and six combat patrol
vehicles.
The infantry is equipped with small arms of Soviet or Russian make, and has several dozen Fagot and Konkurs anti-tank rocket systems. Its air force
consists of four MI-8 multi-purpose transport helicopters. South Ossetia can defend itself against air attacks with four to six Osa, three Tunguska,
three Shilka, and six Strela-10 air defense rocket systems. It also has 12 23-mm ZU-23/2 twin antiaircraft guns (some of which are mounted on GAZ-66
trucks), and up to 100 Igla and Strela man-portable air-defense missiles.
