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To: glenn_a who wrote (38928)	8/17/2008 11:44:23 PM
From: glenn_a	Respond to of 217981

Fascinating: dw-world.de latimes.com miamiherald.com kansascity.com Yet the Guardian itself published these articles earlier last week: mg.co.za guardian.co.uk OK, so this leads me to ask: "Why would the Guardian be so eager to publish the statement from the Russian Foreign minister?", particularly if it hadn't independently verified the facts on the ground. I mean, remember the US propaganda ploy in Iraq's invasion of Kuwait that Saddam's soldiers were murdering babies in a Kuwaiti hospital? This testimony was given by the daughter of the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the US, and it was a propaganda episode cooked up by some US Public Relations Firm. The US used similar propaganda, accusing the Serbs of genocide in Kosovo, which if I'm not mistaken, turned out not to be the case. The way the Guardian so readily passed the Russian Foreign Minister's version of events along, it makes me again wonder if this whole episode isn't just geopolitical theatre of a script that was agreed upon by the Great Powers some time ago. Lesson to self: In today's world, even from sources you consider "trusted", be sure the facts that underlie the emotional weight of the story are verified by independent sources before taking them at face value. glenn

To: glenn_a who wrote (38928)	8/17/2008 11:51:04 PM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217981

This article, the latest, says that Russians are not allowing access to conflict areas by western journalists. It appears ethnic cleansing is much worse in the Georgian villages of South Ossetia than the other way around: nytimes.com And here is an article that says that the total number of dead in the Georgian attack seems to be around 40. This article also points out that Russians are not allowing journalists to examine Georgian villages in South Ossetia, and from what journalists can see, those villages sustained heavy damage. It looks to me like ethnic cleansing of Georgians by Ossetians. Which is exactly what happened in Abkhazia a dozen years ago, when the Abkhazians kicked out ethnic Georgians with Russian help. At the time the Georgians were the majority in Abkhazia. None are left there now. nytimes.com