A NOTE - THE SEASON HERE IS AUTUMN, NOT WINTER...AND COULD BE AS OLD AS TWO YEARS.

Captured footage of African or American contractors with Georgian military personnel in Central Asian region. Russia claims that the United States was directly involved in the Russia - Georgian conflict. What was the Bush Administrations policy in Central Asia ?

An Australian Military Specialist who served in Iraq, claims that African mercenaries, especially from Zimbabwe, are active across the globe.

The 3 dead American soldiers, these reports state, were identified by their
uniform patches as belonging to the United States 173 Airborne Brigade.

REUTERS REPORT NOVEMBER 2008

ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Russia has evidence that citizens from NATO member states including the United States and Turkey fought for Georgia in the five-day August war, Russia's top investigator said on Monday.

A"It was a fairly small number of people. They mainly fulfilled support roles," Bastrykin told reporters in Russia's second city of St Petersburg.

He said some had conducted training for the Georgian armed forces. "There were also two snipers ... one from Ukraine and I believe a Latvian woman," he said.

He said he considered the presence of foreign fighters a criminal offence and said he would bring it up at a meeting with representatives of Interpol.

Alexander Bastrykin, head of the ICPO, asserts that in the August conflict with South Ossetia, Georgia made use of mercenaries recruited in several countries.

"The investigation has received evidences that groups of American, Czech, Turkish, Chechen and Ukrainian mercenaries acted within the Georgian forces," Alexander Bastrykin said today at the conference on international humanitarian law in St-Petersburg, the RIA "Novosti" reports.

According to the ICPO head, foreign mercenaries were mainly used as instructors, but there were also snipers among them. In the area studied by the investigatory team, two snipers operated - a Ukrainian and a Latvian woman, Mr Bastrykin has added. "The total strength of the Georgian army was 17,000 persons, including 2000 reservists," the IA REGNUM quotes him as saying.

As he said, the investigation of the August events will take at least two months more.


Western states condemned Russia's actions as disproportionate, but Moscow said it acted to save the lives of innocent civilians and accused the West of fomenting the conflict by arming Georgia.

Responding to Bastrykin's allegation, Kakha Lomaia, the Secretary of Georgia's National Security Council, told Reuters: "It's really difficult to make comments on such absurd statements."

"There are only Georgian citizens in the Georgian army as it's a legal requirement."

A REUTERS JOURNALIST SAID - Hi Tim,
No, it's not that I think the video is fake, but all it shows is that U.S. soldiers were on the ground in Georgia. I pasted one of our stories saying essentially that below. I remember Russia was trying to drive this point home throughout the war and for weeks after, then sort of let it drop.
" I'm sure he's telling you the truth. I have no doubt whatsoever that U.S. soldiers were indeed on the ground, up to and even beyond the operation you describe -- to evacuate hardware. " - 2009.