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"Major Combat Operations Have Ended"
newshoggers.com - 8/12/2008
"Major Combat Operations Have Ended"
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By BJ Well, Russia has apparently had enough fun beating down the Georgians for now and President Medvedev is ordering an end to military operations . Despite the increasingly hysterical claims of a full-fledged invasion and take-over of Georgia, it is unclear yet whether or not the Russian did any more than launch a single raid outside of the breakaway regions with ground troops, instead ...

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The Moderate Voice — ... As to the big story of the day, it appears that Russia - as predicted - is already calling off their little war. I could expound on this quite a bit, but BJ at Newshoggers has already done the heavy lifting. ...

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