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Gori, Georgia-There were five tanks under the trees.I saw only one at first.They were covered with green branches.I could see the outline of one, then two, then five.They were Georgian tanks but made by Russia, T-72s. So the Russians were fighting against their own tanks.I got out of the car and walked over to them slowly.The heads of the drivers were out, smoking cigarettes. They said no. I didn’t blame them.
Each ethnic group has their own checkpoint around the center of destruction in Tskinvali.Our team is mixed, Russian, Georgian, American.The drive in from Tblisi is about two hours. It gets dicey after the Russian checkpoint. The Ossetians are irregular forces. They robbed Ukrainian journalists and shot two Russian journalists. ITN’s Julian Manion had his car shot up.We stopped at a store for Coke.Men in camoflage with rifles on their shoulders were buying round loaves of Georgian bread.One heavily armed fighter came out with a wooden tray filled with warm loaves that smelled good.His tiny Ford Escort had three more armed men in camoflage inside.He handed in the tray carefully, adjusted his rifle, squeezed in and off they went.We drove towards the front until the road got deserted. I had a bad feeling and announced it.I suddenly needed a men’s room.That old feeling, in a soft shelled car on an open road,I haven’t felt that since Chechnya.We turned around...
By Steve Harrigan
http://onthescene.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/08/11/firsthand-accounts-from-the-russia-georgia-war/
As in the days of Noah...
