27 February 2002 YEREVAN, 27 February (Mediamax)–Georgian State Security Minister Valeriy Khaburdzania refuted today German media reports about the presence of German special mission troops in the Pankisi gorge [a region of Georgia bordering on Chechnya, where al-Qaida militants and Taliban fighters, driven out of Afghanistan are now allegedly hiding.]Khaburdzania said that at present there are no German, U.S., or […]

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