News Digest
FOUR GEORGIANS FEARED KIDNAPPED IN SOUTH OSSETIA
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A meeting between Georgian and South Ossetian officials was scheduled in Tskhinvali on 8 June to discuss the disappearance two days earlier in the South Ossetian conflict zone of four Georgian men. Georgian media alleged on 7 June that the four men were kidnapped in a reprisal for the shooting by Georgian police on 29 May of four Ossetians but South Ossetian Interior Minister Mikhail Mindzaev denied on 7 June the four men were kidnapped. The ethnically mixed peacekeeping forces deployed in the conflict zone imposed additional security measures on 8 June.AZERBAIJANI POLICEMAN DISMISSED FOR ASSAULTING JOURNALIST
By empty (6/8/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The police officer who assaulted Farid Teymurkhanli, a reporter for the independent daily \"Ayna/Zerkalo,\" during the unsanctioned 21 May opposition demonstration in Baku has been dismissed, Interior Minister Ramil Usubov told Turan. Teymurkhanli, who suffered a concussion after a blow to the head, has asked the Prosecutor-General\'s Office to bring criminal charges against the police officer in question, whose name Usubov did not divulge. (Turan).BAKU RESPONSE TO RUSSIAN ARMS TRANSFER POLITICALLY MOTIVATED - OPINION
By empty (6/8/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Baku\'s negative response to the transfer of Russian military hardware from Georgia to Armenia has political rather than military motives, head of the Armenian parliamentary defense, national security, and internal affairs commission Mger Shakhgeldian told Interfax on Wednesday. \"The Russian military bases in Armenia are a component of the republic\'s national security,\" he said. \"Armenia is interested in developing a regional security system in the South Caucasus,\" Shakhgeldian said.FOUR DIE IN AFGHAN BASE ATTACKS
By empty (6/8/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Militants have killed two US soldiers and two Pakistani lorry drivers in attacks on bases in south-eastern Afghanistan, near the Pakistani border. A missile hit the US base at Shkin as troops were about to unload a transport helicopter, killing two. Eight people were also wounded in the attack.Visit also
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