From: Justin Burke (JBurke@sorosny.org)
Date: Thu May 25 2000 - 11:52:24 EDT
KAZAKHSTAN DETAINS SUSPECTED MERCENARIES
Kazakhstan's National Security Committee detained 16 Afghan and Pakistani
nationals on their arrival at Almaty airport from Karachi on
25 May, ITAR-TASS reported. A spokesman for the committee
said that the men, who reportedly carried forged passports
and virtually no baggage, are Taliban mudjahedin en route for
Chechnya via Georgia. A similar group of 70 Pakistanis was
refused entry into Kazakhstan last fall. LF
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