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Putin Thanks Georgia for Cooperation

(Tbilisi, Civil Georgia, December 9, 2002) – On December 9 Russian President Putin, which couple of months ago threatened with the pre-emptive strikes against the terrorist bases in Georgia, thanked the Georgian authorities for the “decisive measures in fight against terrorism.”

“Georgian law enforcers carried out special operations as result of which several notorious terrorists were destroyed, which were wanted for bombing of the apartment buildings in Moscow,” Vladimer Putin said.

On December 6 the special task force of the State Security Ministry destroyed five-men group of armed terrorist suspects in Lagodekhi, eastern Georgia.

As the State Security Ministry reports, three of them, ethnic Karachaians, were wanted by the Russia Federal Security Service for deadly blast of residential buildings in Moscow in 1999.

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