Georgians In White Tights Take On Russian Army

THERE be white women snipers in Georgia, say the Russians:

Noah Shachtman at WIRED’s Danger Room blog says,

Russia’s top investigator is claiming that their wartime foes, the Georgians, deployed a cadre of female snipers from Ukraine and Latvia. The shooters sound an awful lot like the mythical “white tights” — the exotic, stone-cold, blue eyed, Olympic bialthete killers of Chechen war lore who were said to pick off hapless Russian conscripts. Read the post at Danger Room, by Nathan Hodge: The Return of ‘White Tights’: Mythical Female Snipers Stalk Russians

White tights. Men in white tights?

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