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| Georgians find arms cache in Pankisi Gorge |
| 2003-12-19 |
| Georgian Interior Ministry officials have found a large cache of weapons and ammunition in the Pankisi Gorge, the Tbilisi-based Prime-News agency reported Wednesday. Twenty surface-to-air missiles, 30 antipersonnel mines and five grenade-launcher shells were retrieved from under the ruins of a church several kilometers from the village of Joqolo, with the help of mine-clearing equipment, according to Kakheti regional police chief Zurab Tushuri. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #4 Every time I read about the Pankisi Gorge in Georgia I keep thinking it's time for Burt Reynolds to come out of retirement. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2003-12-19 3:40:42 PM |
| #3 Might we take this report as a sign that the new Georgian gov't will address the Pankisi problem seriously? |
| Posted by: Pete Stanley 2003-12-19 2:20:53 AM |
| #2 Just type "Pankisi" into the Rantburg search engine and you'll get a pretty good idea of what the place is like and who hangs out in it. Nasty bunch, by all accounts. |
| Posted by: Dan Darling 2003-12-19 1:37:54 AM |
| #1 Anyone know of a source of info on the Pankisi Gorge? I would like to get some sort of picture of the place. |
| Posted by: Grunter 2003-12-19 12:59:25 AM |