By empty (7/25/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A battle is likely underway in the upper part of the Kodori Gorge in Georgia, a source from the headquarters of the joint peacekeeping forces in the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict area told Interfax from Sukhumi on Tuesday. \"The personnel of the 107th observation outpost of the joint peacekeeping forces recorded an intensive exchange of fire to the east of its location,\" the source said. \"The skirmish is heard about four kilometers away from the outpost,\" he said.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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