Georgia Denies Selling of Igla Missiles, Training of Suicide-Bombers

(Tbilisi, August 22, 2003, Civil Georgia) – On August 21, Georgian State Security Minister Valeri Khaburdzania denied Russian media reports that Georgian intelligence has sold Igla antiaircraft missiles to terrorists. “Georgia has no Igla missile,” he said.

Khaburdzania also dismissed as “not serious and groundless”, a statement made on August 20 by Colonel Ilia Shabalkin, spokesman for the Joint Group of Russian Forces in Chechnya, that Chechen women are preparing for further suicide-bombing missions a!
gainst Russian targets at a camp located on the territory of “a neighboring state” (an obvious hint at Georgia).

“All these reports and statements are provocations aiming to discredit Georgia,” Valeri Khaburdzania told reporters.

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