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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 12/1/2006 11:32 PM
Resident of Breakaway Province Detained in Georgia for Spying for Russia

01.12.2006

MosNews
The Georgian Interior Ministry said Friday that its counterespionage agents had detained a resident of the breakaway region of South Ossetia who had been recruited by Russia’s Federal Security Service, the Associated Press reports.
The suspect, identified as Kakha Bagauri or Bagayev, confessed to passing information on Georgia’s army to the agent who recruited him in the South Ossetian capital, Tskhinvali, ministry spokesman Shota Khizanishvili said.
The alleged spy also said he had hired Chechens in Georgia’s Pankisi gorge to carry out terrorist acts in South Ossetia “so that they would be detained ahead of time and the Georgian side would be accused of violating the agreements” on the cease-fire in the breakaway region, the spokesman told The Associated Press.
Georgian television channels showed the alleged spy’s confession.
Georgian-Russian relations plummeted this fall after Tbilisi arrested four alleged Russian spies. Moscow slapped on a transport blockade and economic sanctions, which Georgian leaders called retaliation for the country’s pro-Western course.
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/12/01/ossetianspy.shtml