Russia Says Deadly Poison Traced to Chechnya, Pankisi

(Tbilisi February 8, 2003. Civil Georgia) – Speaking at a security conference in Munich Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said on February 8 that use of the deadly toxin ricin could be traced back to Chechen rebels, and makeshift laboratories had been found in Georgia’s Pankisi gorge.

“As for the training and instruction base for the international chemical terrorists, it is a well-known destination – the Pankisi gorge in Georgia,” the Reuters reports quoting Russian Defense Minister.

“Down there, makeshift ricin laboratories have been found. The recently captured chemical terrorists apprehended in France and the United Kingdom had been undergoing training there [Pankisi gorge],” Sergei Ivanov stated.

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