Gun Toting Russian Soldiers Rob Israeli Journalists In Gori

Four Israeli journalists, including reporters from Haaretz, Channel Two and Y-net, were robbed at gunpoint by Russian soldiers in the Georgian city of Gori on Thursday.

None of the Israelis was injured in the incident, which occurred as a number of foreign journalists gathered near a Russian checkpoint stationed at the entrance to the city. The Russian troops opened fire on the journalists without warning, trying to disperse the crowd.

Meanwhile, a Russian soldier armed with a Kalashnikov rifle approached the vehicle in which the Israeli journalists were traveling. H epointed his weapon at the Ynet reporter and demanded the keys to the car, shot towards the journalis's foot and then fled in the car. The four journalists escaped unharmed to Georgian forces stationed 300 meters away and contacted their head offices after realising that their passports were in the vehicle along with other possessions.

Close to twenty minutes later their car was returned to them with all their possessions intact.

Meanwhile on Thursday Russian troops deployed in Gori declared they have no intention of leaving Georgian soil despite the shakey ceasefire that went into effect a day earlier.08/14/08

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[GiorgiKhaburzania]

When that incident took place, Georgian troops were nowhere near that rregion, so they couldn't have fired. And also why would Georgians fire at Turkish journalists, Turley being Georgia's ally?

[Iceman90gsx]

Not likely. Numerous reports like this have been coming out about Russian soldiers robbing and looting. Not just from pro-western news sources either. Al-jazeera has even reported it.

[greywindz]

Man, the news reader needs more coffee...

[R3APERvsTYETREE]

They do stuff to humilate there captives but At least they dont cut of heads with pen knifes.

[warcola210]

wait wasn't it known that it was Georgians that were shooting at the Turkish thinking that they were Russians so they yelled out in Russian still thinking that they were Russian if not plz correct me

[Pseudologic]

I'm referring to the shooting incident of the Turkish journalists. The shooters told journalists to "go... RUN" in Russian but with very heavy accent so they definitely were not Russian.

[warcola210]

is there a video of the robbing did the Israel's say that they had Georgian accents when they spoke plz tell me how you know this

[Pseudologic]

i'm sorry but foreigners can't tell russians from georgians from ossetians so noone really cares about their opinions.

[Pseudologic]

Any soldiers are like animals... The brits and americans do some very bad things in iraq

[Pseudologic]

except the attackers had a heavy georgian accents when they spoke russian

[warcola210]

that was a soviet tactic long ago dress up in the enemy's uniform and fire on civilian's