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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-08 02:56 AM
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Russian Troops Still Pour Into South Ossetia
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121857437601134481.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

By Andrew Osborn and Marc Champion
Word Count: 1,332
TSKHINVALI, Georgia -- The Kremlin said Tuesday that it was suspending military action in the separatist enclave of South Ossetia inside Georgia, but huge Russian military convoys still snaked toward the scarred capital, Tskhinvali.

After five days of fighting -- Russia's biggest use of force outside its borders since the 1991 Soviet collapse -- a victorious Russian army offered a small group of foreign journalists a carefully controlled glimpse of the territory it went to war over.

Their goal was to win a more difficult battle: getting the world to believe that Georgia, not Moscow, is to blame for the ...
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