Several extremist groups planned large-scale terrorist acts in Tbilisi, Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze said in an interview with national television on Monday. He admitted having made a great mistake in ignoring several warnings about plans to assassinate him. "This won't happen again and all signals and warnings will be double-checked," Shevardnadze said. He hoped that given these threats, the Chechens who had to be registered at police stations last Saturday would take the move with understanding. "Now that a brazen threat against Georgia has appeared, law enforcement bodies were forced to take preventive measures to guarantee public security," he said. Shevardnadze did not name the specific people who made the threats last week, but hinted that they had been made by Chechens. He said there are over 4,000 refugees in the Pankisi Gorge now. "Georgians are not rancorous and will continue to help feeble old men, women and children. But Georgia has never been and will never be a haven for terrorists," he said. (Interfax)