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Article: GEORGIA: GEORGIAN OFFICIALS MAKE CONTRADICTORY STATEMENTS ON PANKISI GORGE.(status of terrorist organizations occupying Pankisi Gorge)(Brief Article)
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- February 10, 2003
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Responding to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell's 5 February presentation to the UN Security Council, in which he said that colleagues of Abu Mus'ab al-Zarqawi, an alleged Palestinian associate of Osama bin Laden, "have been active in Georgia's Pankisi Gorge," Georgia's Ambassador to the UN Rezo Adamia said on 6 February that he does not know how many Al-Qaeda members are in Pankisi, but that the Georgian government should continue its mop-up operation until the gorge is free of terrorists, ITAR-TASS reported. Adamia said that during the search operation in Pankisi last fall, Georgian troops detained several suspected Al-Qaeda members and handed them over to the United ...
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Article: Putin threatens to take measures in Georgia's Pankisi ...
Xinhua News Agency;
September 12, 2002 ;
700+ words
... ... threatens to take measures in Georgia's Pankisi Gorge MOSCOW, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- Russian ... bases in the Georgian territory of the Pankisi Gorge. Putin's warning came amid long ... of militants in Georgia's lawless Pankisi Gorge, an area bordering Russia's Chechnya ...
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