Утеверждения грузинской стороны [из предъыдущего абзаца, что были отакованны исслючительно военные объекты, якобы спрятаные среди гражданских] были оспорены Раэном Гристом, бывшим британским офицером, являвшимся старшим представителем ОБСЕ, когда началась война. ...
Было ясно что атака [Грузии] не разделяла цели и была непропроциональной ... Атака была именно на город.
... Грист уволился по неизвестным причинам.
На следующем брифинге [в октябре] Янг [видимо завместо Гриста] настаивал на версии наблюдателей, что 7 августа не было интенсивных атак на грузинские сёла.
ОБСЕ отказало Тайм в интервью с Янгом и наблюдателями.
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Those claims have not been independently verified, and Georgia's account was disputed by Ryan Grist, a former British Army captain who was the senior O.S.C.E. representative in Georgia when the war broke out. Mr. Grist said that he was in constant contact that night with all sides, with the office in Tskhinvali and with Wing Commander Stephen Young, the retired British military officer who leads the monitoring team.
"It was clear to me that the attack was completely indiscriminate and disproportionate to any, if indeed there had been any, provocation," Mr. Grist said. "The attack was clearly, in my mind, an indiscriminate attack on the town, as a town."
Mr. Grist has served as a military officer or diplomat in Northern Ireland, Cyprus, Kosovo and Yugoslavia. In August, after the Georgian foreign minister, Eka Tkeshelashvili, who has no military experience, assured diplomats in Tbilisi that the attack was measured and discriminate, Mr. Grist gave a briefing to diplomats from the European Union that drew from the monitors' observations and included his assessments. He then soon resigned under unclear circumstances.
A second briefing was led by Commander Young in October for military attachés visiting Georgia. At the meeting, according to a person in attendance, Commander Young stood by the monitors' assessment that Georgian villages had not been extensively shelled on the evening or night of Aug. 7. "If there had been heavy shelling in areas that Georgia claimed were shelled, then our people would have heard it, and they didn't," Commander Young said, according to the person who attended. "They heard only occasional small-arms fire."
The O.S.C.E turned down a request by The Times to interview Commander Young and the monitors, saying they worked in sensitive jobs and would not be publicly engaged in this disagreement. - emphasis added
