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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East?

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To: lorne who wrote (5711)	1/14/2003 2:40:20 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (2) of 32591

Georgian official says Al-Qaida trained in its territory By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TBILISI, Georgia Advertisement Georgian security officials said Tuesday that al-Qaida money had been flowing into its lawless Pankisi Gorge until last year, funding the construction of a hospital for wounded Islamic fighters and providing training to Chechen terrorists. State Security Ministry spokesman Nika Laliashvili also said it was possible that the suspects arrested last week in London on charges of producing the poison ricin were trained in the gorge. Last year, the Pankisi Gorge, just over the border from Russia's war-ravaged region of Chechnya, became a focus of tension between Georgia and Russia, which accused Georgian authorities of allowing Chechen rebels to shelter there. Georgia denied the charges and refused to let Moscow conduct a military operation in the gorge. However, Georgia did accept anti-terrorism training for its military from the United States, which said fighters connected to al-Qaida were in the gorge. The impoverished former Soviet republic then launched its own security operation in Pankisi. Laliashvili said fighters "linked to and financed by al-Qaida" were in the gorge almost until the beginning of the operation. He said an al-Qaida hospital was being built in the gorge. "There were also training camps in the Pankisi Gorge, where specialists in conducting terrorist attacks and diversions were taught," he said. Asked about reports that the men arrested in London were trained in Pankisi, President Eduard Shevardnadze said Monday that some of the fighters in the gorge were experts in poisonous substances. Laliashvili said the London connection could not be ruled out but that it the British authorities had not sent the names of the suspects. Georgian officials initially denied that any Chechen or al-Qaida fighters were in the Pankisi Gorge. They later said that about 800 militants, 700 Chechens and 100 Arabs, had been in the gorge but that most of them left before the security operation was launched.

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