Russians Pilfer U.S. Equipment ; Pentagon Says No 'Sensitive Items' Taken with Humvees
The Washington Times › September 09, 2008
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Russian forces seized U.S. military equipment during the recent fighting in Georgia in addition to five vehicles whose capture was reported earlier, the Pentagon said Monday.
Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said Russian troops broke open two large shipping containers in the Georgian port of Poti and "pilfered" the contents. Sensitive communications and electronics equipment used by U.S. forces during a joint U.S.-Georgia military exercise prior to the Aug. 8 incursion had already been shipped out of the port, he added.See the full content of this document
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Russians Pilfer U.S. Equipment ; Pentagon Says No 'Sensitive Items' Taken with Humvees
One of the containers belonged to the Marines, which also lost five Humvees to the Russians. Mr. Whitman said he did not know who owned the other container.
The Russian newspaper Izvestia ...See the full content of this document
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