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| Caucasus |
| Georgia repeats promise to clear Pankisi of terrorists |
| 2003-02-24 |
| Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze has again promised to clear the Pankisi Gorge of international terrorists hiding in that part of Georgia. Yep. They're gonna get around to it any time now... He said a new operation in the gorge was due soon. In an interview with the National radio, Shevardnadze said the new actions of the Georgian law enforcement bodies in Pankisi "will in their content and nature differ from the anticriminal and antiterrorist operation conducted in the gorge last year". How? They gonna catch somebody this time? Chechen militants, as well as international terrorists linked to the terrorist center Al-Qaeda, had in advance withdrawn to hard-to-reach mountainous regions. Shevardnadze claimed then that "last fall the Georgian law enforcement structures cleared the Pankisi Gorge of armed formations that had come from other states". However, these allegations were not confirmed by Russian special services' data. Probably not by the Georgians', either... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 Don't tell me - show me. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2003-02-24 23:41:00 |