Monday, June 11, 2007

Georgia rejects claims it planned abduction of S. Ossetia leader

Allegations made by Georgia's breakaway republic of South Ossetia that Georgia plotted the abduction or assassination of the South Ossetian president are absurd, a Georgian Interior Ministry official said Saturday.

Earlier Saturday, the South Ossetian Committee of National Security (KGB) claimed that the Georgian Interior Ministry received a go-ahead from the authorities to conduct a special operation to kidnap or assassinate South Ossetian President Eduard Kokoity. "It is absurd. I have nothing more to add," Shota Khizanishvili, the interior minister's chief of staff, said. [More]

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