Georgia identifies suspect in terror video case

A Kyrgyz citizen was suspected of releasing a terror video shortly after seven Georgian troops were killed in Afghanistan in June, the Interior Ministry said Thursday. The man, Samar Chokutaev, now stays in Abkhazia as a network engineer for a mobile communications company in Sukhumi, ministry spokesman Nino Giorgobiani said. But he acknowledged that Chokutaev "lives in the territory out of Georgia's control," although the suspect was charged with "spreading information aimed at calling for a terrorist act." The spokesman said that the suspect had used Georgian mobile operators --Magticom, Geocell, Mobitell and USB Internet modems --to commit and hide the crime. The video, entitled "Taliban Jihad Against Georgian Troops in Afghanistan," was released on June 6, shortly after the seven Georgian troops were killed by a truck bomb, the most deadly attack against Georgian forces in Afghanistan so far. The video threatened with voice-over in English the lives of Georgian troops in Afghanistan. Georgia, the largest non-NATO troop contributor to the International Security Assistance Force, has over 1,560 troops in Afghanistan, where 29 Georgian troops have been killed so far.