Georgian Interior Minister Koba Narchemashvili denied reports that his country turned over to the United States nine Arabs, members of Al-Qaeda network. "These reports are untrue and could have been circulated as a provocation," he told Interfax news agency on Tuesday.
Citing an anonymous representative of Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze, the German newspaper Berliner Morgenpost wrote that Tbilisi had handed nine terrorists close to the Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev over to U.S. authorities. (Albawaba.com)
