GEORGIAN MINISTER IMPLICATES ABKHAZIA IN MOSCOW METRO BOMBING
By empty (2/9/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
State Security Minister Valeri Khaburzania told journalists in Tbilisi on 9 February that his agency has detained a man from the North Caucasus, Nazir Aidobolov, who was allegedly recruited by Abkhaz intelligence and sent to Georgia to establish contact with Chechens in the Pankisi Gorge. Khaburzania claimed that Aidobolov had instructions to go to the Russian Embassy in Tbilisi on 5 February and inform the resident Russian Federal Security Service officer that a major terrorist attack was planned for the following day in Moscow, and a second several days later in Stavropol Krai, and to name Chechens from Pankisi as the organizers. (Interfax).Visit also
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