Men killed recently in Georgian mountains were recruited by Georgian special services - ex-Chechen separatist emissary
MOSCOW. Sept 27 (Interfax) - The essence of the recent events in the Lopota Gorge, Georgia, is that Georgian special services killed people coming from Chechnya whom these special services had recruited earlier themselves, says Khizri Aldamov, a former representative of the president of the self-proclaimed republic of Ichkeria in Georgia.
"His [Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili's] special services eliminated them because they could have said a lot," Aldamov said in a Moscow-Tbilisi video link dealing with the August 2012 Lopota hostage crisis on Thursday.
"These were his men, whom he had recruited, trained, and provided with weapons," Aldamov said.
The Georgian special services' activities in that area are profoundly anti-Russian, he said.
"Saakashvili has a strong allergy to [Russian President Vladimir] Putin, to Ramzan [head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov], and to Russia in general," Aldamov said.
Tbilisi reported officially earlier that Georgian special services had killed a group of 11 armed terrorists in the Lopota Gorge at the end of August 2012, who had entered Georgian territory from Russia's North Caucasus.
Georgia said there was not a single citizen of Georgia among the gunmen but that there were several natives of Chechnya wanted by the Russian law enforcement.
