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Article: Georgian police stop Russian military trucks carrying missiles to South Ossetia, Georgian peacekeeping commander detained
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- July 7, 2004
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MISHA DZHINDZHIKHASHVILI, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
07-07-2004
Dateline: TBILISI, Georgia
Georgian police stopped a column of 10 Russian military trucks carrying Russian servicemen, missiles and other military equipment to the capital of breakaway South Ossetia, and South Ossetian forces on Wednesday detained the commander of Georgian peacekeepers in the tense region.
The Russian head of the interethnic peacekeeping contingent, Maj.-Gen. Svyatoslav Nabzdorov, said that the shipment stopped near the South Ossetian village of Kurta late Tuesday _ which the Georgian Interior Ministry said included unguided missiles _ had been approved by the joint control commission overseeing ...