Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008
From: GORDON HAHN <gordon-hahn@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Comment re "internment camps"
[DJ: I can send the photos to you. They cannot be carried in JRL.]
JRL readers, who managed to get through yesterday's issue by now and read my exchange with the PR agent, Mr Worms, will perhaps recall his mention of two photographs, which he claimed constituted proof of "internment camps" set up by Russians for ethnic Georgians. He and Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili are trying to insinuate into the minds of the American and western publics that the Russians have established these 'camps' for the alleged Georgians purportedly captured by the Russians during the recent war for long-term incarceration, torturing, and killing.
When Mr Worms mentioned these photographs as his proof, he was responding to my inquiry of him as to where was South Ossetia's Srebrenica for Georgians. Now Srebrenica was the scene of a massacre of thousands and included an internment camp of thousands of half-starved prisoners, as the world saw in photographs and on film. This is the context for Mr Worms' mentioning he was in possession and had sent to David Johnson two photographs of so-called "internment camps" set up by Russians for ethnic Georgians.
What do the photographs show? They show a holding pen of sorts capable of holding some 25 people rather uncomfortably but only holding some 15 people. The 'pen' is really a space between two buildings or between a building and a wall with a fencing over the top. This space holding some 15 unidentified people, who could be being held anywhere and by anyone is what Mr Worms tried to tell JRL's leaders was evidence of an internment "camp", no, not AN "internment camp", but internment campS, in the plural. This is an outrageous attempt at deceiving JRL readers and the American public, and Mr Worms should be ashamed of himself for trying to pass off this kind of fraud, disinformation and propaganda.
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