Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Il ritardo mentale della stampa occidentale

Meglio tardi che mai, dopo tre mesi realizzano che l'Ossezia e' stata
ataccata dalla Georgia.
The guardian
So now they tell us. Two months after the brief but bloody war in the
Caucasus which was overwhelmingly blamed on Russia by western politicians
and media at the time, a serious investigation by the BBC has uncovered a
very different story.
Not only does the report by Tim Whewell &#8211; aired this week on Newsnight
and on Radio 4's File on Four - find strong evidence confirming
western-backed Georgia as the aggressor on the night of August 7. It also
assembles powerful testimony of wide-ranging war crimes carried out by the
Georgian army in its attack on the contested region of South Ossetia.
They include the targeting of apartment block basements &#8211; where
civilians were taking refuge &#8211; with tank shells and Grad rockets, the
indiscriminate bombardment of residential districts and the deliberate
killing of civilians, including those fleeing the South Ossetian capital of
Tskinvali. The carefully balanced report &#8211; which also details evidence
of ethnic cleansing by South Ossetian paramilitaries &#8211; cuts the ground
from beneath later Georgian claims that its attack on South Ossetia followed
the start of a Russian invasion the previous night.
At the time, the Georgian government said its assault on Tskinvali was
intended to "restore constitutional order" in an area it has never ruled, as
well as to counter South Ossetian paramilitary provocations. Georgian
intelligence subsequently claimed to have found the tape of an intercepted
phone call backing up its Russian invasion story &#8211; but even Georgia's
allies balk at a claim transparently intended to bolster its shaky
international legal position .
Naturally the man who ordered the Georgian invasion of South Ossetia,
president Mikheil Saakashvili, denies the war crimes accusations. But what
of his Anglo-American sponsors, who insisted at the time that "Russian
aggression must not go unanswered"?
British foreign secretary David Miliband now accepts Georgia was "reckless"
and says he treats the war crimes allegations "extremely seriously". US
assistant secretary of state, Daniel Fried, meanwhile concedes Georgia's
attack on Tskhinvali was "wrong on several levels", but feels that
discussion of its war crimes is "not terribly useful".
In the wake of the Georgian attack, Russian troops moved into Georgia
proper, destroying Georgian military facilities used to mount the original
assault &#8211; and inflicting their own civilian casualties in the process,
notably in Gori. Earlier this month they pulled back from their Georgian
buffer zone into now nominally-independent South Ossetia.
At the start of the August conflict, western media reporting was relatively
even-handed, but rapidly switched into full-blown cold war revival mode as
Russia turned the tables on the US's Georgian client regime and Nato
expansion in the region. Clear initial evidence of who started the war and
Georgian troops' killing spree in Tskhinvali was buried or even denied in a
highly effective PR operation from Tbilisi.
Within a week, the former Foreign Office special adviser David Clark was for
example accusing me on Comment is free of making an "important error of
fact" by stating that "several hundreds civilians" had been killed by
Georgian forces in Tskhinvali.
I based that on several reports, including in the Observer. Clark insisted
there was "no independent support for this claim". But, as reported by the
BBC this week, Human Rights Watch now regards the figure of 300-400 civilian
dead in Tskhinvali as a "useful starting point". Meanwhile, with the
exception of a small item in the Independent, Whewell's significant new
evidence about what actually took place in a conflict likely to have
far-reaching strategic consequences has been simply ignored by the rest of
the mainstream media.
Ci hanno fatto una figura da giornale luce.
Dove sono i Kazzari di IPI ?
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 Meglio tardi che mai, 
cad ali che città mi consigli per un viaggio nella cina che si appresta 
a divenire iperpotenza?

 Ci hanno fatto una figura da giornale luce.
Il risultato finale è lo stesso (perchè durante la guerra conta quello
che si dice in quel momento, non a guerra finita), però a onor del
vero il gironale Luce non smentiva

 ha scritto nel messaggio 
news:hKiPk.94609$Ca.2...@twister2.libero.it...
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lo sa Putin che sei un volta gabbana? ;-))