Media center in Gori bombed

god damn it\ i have friend try to go there...:(( i am sorry to hear all that stuff-- cannot imagine what happens to civilians

What is going on there? As far as I read news, press is not targetted in particular, or is it?

BBC get fired on

Incredibly, a spokesman from the Russian Foreign Ministry was on Sky or BBC earlier, claiming that Russia had caused no civilian casualties in Georgia (i.e. outside of South Ossetia). He's obviously not seeing the same telly that I'm seeing.

Yahoo news: Dutch journalist killed in Russian bombing of Gori

Hello MIchel. Not too long ago we met in Tbilisi. Now the country is a mess and some of our friends and colleagues are dead. Awful. Here is a release from the Comittee to Protect Journalists of other news media personnel hurt, missing and killed: New York, August 11, 2008—Two journalists were reported killed, at least eight were injured, and two have gone missing since fighting erupted between Georgian, Russian, and local forces in the disputed region of South Ossetia. No press-related casualties have been immediately reported in the conflict in another breakaway Georgian region, Abkhazia. The Moscow-based broadcaster Echo Moskvy, citing an interview with a Russian Newsweek reporter, first reported that photojournalists Alexander Klimchuk and Grigol Chikhladze had been killed in South Ossetia on Sunday. Russian Newsweek reporter Orkhan Dzhemal told Ekho Moskvy and the Moscow daily Kommersant that the journalists came under attack by South Ossetian militia after entering the conflict zone from Georgia. Klimchuk is listed as head of the Tbilisi-based photo agency, Caucasus Images, and Chikhladze is listed as an agency journalist, according to the agency’s Web site. A CPJ source in Georgia said today that he had spoken to colleagues of the men, and that they had confirmed the deaths. According to multiple Russian press reports, Chikhladze was on assignment for Russian Newsweek and Klimchuk was on assignment for the Russian news agency Itar Tass. A person answering the phone at the Moscow-based Russian Newsweek said no one was immediately available for comment. Calls to Itar Tass were not answered. “We are saddened by the reported deaths of Alexander Klimchuk and Grigol Chikhladze and send our condolences to their families and friends,” said Robert Mahoney, CPJ deputy director. “We call on all sides to respect the presence of journalists in conflict areas and ensure that they can carry out their reporting in safety.” Kommersant said that reporters Winston Featherly and Temuri Kiguradze of the Tbilisi-based, English-language newspaper The Messenger were injured in the same attack and were hospitalized in North Ossetia. The extent of their injuries was not immediately available. On Saturday, several reporters were reported injured in a rocket attack as they traveled in a Russian military convoy to the South Ossetian capital, Tskhinvali. Aleksandr Sladkov, Leonid Losev, and Igor Ukleyin of Russian state television channel Vesti, and Aleksandr Kots from the Moscow-based daily Komsomolskaya Pravda were hospitalized with minor injuries, Ekho Moskvy reported. On Sunday, Russian NTV producer Peter Gassiyev was injured in an attack by unidentified forces outside Tskhinvali, the news Web site Lenta reported. According to the Turkish Daily News, Turkish journalist Recep Öztürk was wounded in an unrelated attack on Sunday when his car came under fire in South Ossetia. The Russian Interfax news agency said another Turkish journalist, Gurai Irvin Sekints, whose affiliation was not immediately available, was injured in attack on Tskhinvali, and later hospitalized. The Moscow-based news Web site Expert reported that two of its journalists Vyacheslav Kochetkov and Igor Naidenov went missing in Georgia. Ruslan Khistanov, deputy editor of Russky Reporter, a sister publication, told CPJ that his newsroom lost communication with the two journalists when they traveled to Georgia from neighboring Armenia.

Hello Dean. Surely I remember. It's a mess indeed and I am very saddened to hear about all of the losses.

"Gori is located in the proximity to the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone. It is connected to breakaway South Ossetia's capital Tskhinvali via a railroad spur which has been defunct since the early 1990s. In the 2000s, Georgia has increased military infrastructure in and around the city. Thus, the Central Military Hospital was relocated from Tbilisi to Gori and reequipped in October 2006.[1] On January 18, 2008, Georgia’s second NATO-standard military base was inaugurated at Gori. It is to accommodate the 1st Infantry Brigade of the Georgian Ground Forces.[2] On August 9, 2008, Gori was attacked by Russian jets as part of the 2008 War in South Ossetia. Georgia reported 60 civilans dead as a result of bombings of residential buildings.[3] Skynews reported that bombs hit a Georgian military facility (including a munitions warehouse) and civilian apartments were hit by exploding munitions from that warehouse. According to Georgian government sources, Gori was overrun by Russian forces on August 11[4], but US sources (apparently based on information from the town, where US military advisors were stationed) confirmed that while the Georgian army had abandoned Gori, no Russian troops were to be seen either as of late August 11[5].":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gori,_Georgia The above is from the most recently updated Wiki entry.