Were American Mercenaries Fighting Against the Russians in Georgia?
August 29th, 2008UPDATE: U.S. Military and Mercenaries Trained Georgian Commandos
Via: Washington Post:
Earlier in the day, a senior Russian military official said at a news briefing that Russian troops had recovered an American passport in the rubble of a village near the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali, where a Georgian special forces unit had been based during the war.
“What was the purpose of that gentleman being among the special forces, and what is he doing today, I so far cannot answer,” said Col. Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn, deputy chief of the general staff, holding up an enlarged color photocopy of the passport. He identified its owner as Michael Lee White, a resident of Houston, born in 1967, state-owned Vesti television reported.
Saakashvili, in an interview Friday morning with The Washington Post, dismissed the passport report as “typical tricks.”
“I wish we had Americans and American weapons, but it’s not the case,” he said. “They are living in a parallel world, with a parallel perception. If you say a lie in Russia, it becomes the truth the next day on TV.”
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