Friday, 06 September 2002

GEORGIAN OFFICIALS DISMISS CBS REPORT OF AL-QAEDA PRESENCE

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By empty (9/6/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)

In separate statements on 5 September, Georgian presidential spokesman Kakha Imnadze and National Security Ministry spokesman Nika Laliashvili both cast doubts on the accuracy of a "Pravda" report that cited cbsnews.com as reporting the previous evening that the U.S.
In separate statements on 5 September, Georgian presidential spokesman Kakha Imnadze and National Security Ministry spokesman Nika Laliashvili both cast doubts on the accuracy of a "Pravda" report that cited cbsnews.com as reporting the previous evening that the U.S. National Security Agency intercepted a phone call between an Al-Qaeda member in Afghanistan and someone in Georgia some 15 minutes after the passenger jet crashed into the Pentagon on 11 September 2001. One of the two persons reportedly told the other that "another target is next." Laliashvili dismissed the Russian report as part of the ongoing vilification of Georgia by Moscow. (Interfax)
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