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    World Peace Herald, DC
    Jamestown Foundation
    Aug 1 2005

    Georgia accuses Russia of terrorism
    By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
    Published August 1, 2005

    TBILISI, Georgia -- Georgia's Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili
    has identified a Russian military intelligence agent behind a bombing
    in Gori.

    Three policemen were killed in the February 1 car bombing. The Georgian
    daily Rezonansi said that Merabishvili named Anatolii Sysoev as a
    member of Russia's Main Intelligence Administration (GRU -- Glavnoye
    Razvedovatelnoye Upravlenie).

    Merabishvili said that Georgian security officials in South
    Ossetia arrested three other persons suspected in carrying out the
    attack. "According to our information, a year and half ago colonel
    of the Russia's GRU Anatoly Sisoev set up a group of saboteurs which,
    according to our information, was trained on the territory of Russia.

    This group has carried out the terrorist act here in Gori," he said.

    Gia Valiev and Gia Zasiev were arrested in the Tskhinvali region.

    Police also arrested Joseb Kochiev, who allegedly bought a car shortly
    before the terrorist act in which an explosive was detonated.

    Merabishvili met with the Russian Ambassador in Georgia on July 25
    and gave him all the materials of the investigation.

    Anatoly Sysoev was born in 1950 in Tbilisi and served in the
    GRU military intelligence. In 1992 Sysoev officially resigned
    from the GRU, departing for Azerbaijan where participated in the
    Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in 1992-1995 as a head of field intelligence
    of the Azerbaijani field artillery. In 1995 Sysoev was arrested by
    Azerbaijan on treason charges.

    Azerbaijani police charged Sysoev in an assassination attempt on
    Azerbaijani President Heydar Aliev by blowing up his airplane with an
    IGLA man-portable anti-aircraft missile. Sysoev received a 15-year
    jail sentence, which was later reduced to 10 years. In 2001 he was
    granted amnesty and left for Ukraine.

    Sysoev returned to the region in 2002 as a military advisor to
    South Ossetian president Eduard Kokoev. Merabishvili noted that the
    three Goribomb blast suspects said that Sysoev was training a group
    of approximately 120 saboteurs in South Ossetia and that his group
    possessed at least four IGLA missiles. Russian Defense Minister Sergey
    Ivanov labeled "depressingly stupid" media reports on the possible
    participation of GRU agents in terrorist acts abroad, including the
    one in Gori.
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