News Digest
ARAB MERCENARY KILLED IN INGUSHETIA
By empty (7/2/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Arab mercenary Abu Kuteiba was killed in the town of Malgobek, Ingushetia, during a special operation, Interfax has learned. Kuteiba was a close associate of warlord Khattab and was involved in terrorist attacks in Chechnya and outside it, said Major-General Ilya Shabalkin, a representative of the regional operative headquarters directing the operation in the Northern Caucasus. Kuteiba was one of the organizers of the June 22 attack on the Ingush towns of Nazran, Karabulak and Slepsovskaya.OVER 80 GO MISSING IN CHECHNYA IN 2004
By empty (7/2/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Over 80 civilians have gone missing in Chechnya in 2004, Dmitry Grushkin of the Russian human rights center Memorial told Interfax on Friday. \"According to our information, 194 people have been abducted in Chechnya in 2004. Of them 97 have been freed, 15 found dead, and 82 were reported missing,\" Grushkin said.DETAINED FORMER GEORGIAN OFFICIAL SUBJECTED TO TORTURE
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Nana Kakabadze, who heads a Georgian NGO that protects the rights of former political prisoners, told journalists in Tbilisi on 2 July that former Audit Chamber head Sulkhan Molashvili is being subjected to electric shocks, cigarette burns, and psychological pressure during interrogation, Caucasus Press reported. Molashvili was arrested in April and remanded in pre-trial detention for three months on charges of embezzling 37,000 laris ($19,466). (Caucasus Press).GEORGIA WILL USE WEAPONS ONLY IF TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY AT RISK - SAAKASHVILI
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Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said Georgia will use weapons only if its territorial integrity is threatened. \"If we wanted military intervention [in South Ossetia], we would not talk. Georgia will use weapons in only one case: if it faces a threat to its territorial integrity,\" Saakashvili said.Visit also
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Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, Greater Central Asia as A Component of U.S. Global Strategy, October 2024.
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Analysis Mamuka Tsereteli, "U.S. Black Sea Strategy: The Georgian Connection", CEPA, February 9, 2024.
Silk Road Paper Svante E. Cornell, ed., Türkiye's Return to Central Asia and the Caucasus, July 2024.
Book Svante E. Cornell, ed., "The Changing Geopolitics of Central Asia and the Caucasus" AFPC Press/Armin LEar, 2023.
Silk Road Paper Svante E. Cornell and S. Frederick Starr, Stepping up to the “Agency Challenge”: Central Asian Diplomacy in a Time of Troubles, July 2023.
Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, U.S. Policy in Central Asia through Central Asian Eyes, May 2023.