FBI experts to engage in investigation of Tbilisi anti-terror operation case
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The United States will help Georgia investigate the case in which an anti-terror operation was held to neutralise suspected terrorists in Tbilisi last week.
The head of the State Security service of Georgia, Vakhtang Gomelauri announced the news today, telling journalists that "our strategic partner, the US has got engaged in the process of investigation”.
"They have stronger and more experienced services than us. We will carry out the investigation together”, Gomelauri said.
US Ambassador to Georgia Ian Kelly told journalists that it was the US who offered its "technical assistance” to Georgia.
He said FBI experts will be involved in the investigation because "it is important to investigate this case together as it has to do with international terrorism”.
"Georgia is our partner. Of course, we are ready to provide Georgia with any kind of help”, Kelly said.
One suspected terrorist was arrested and three killed during the anti-terrorist operation on Gabriel Salosi Street in Tbilisi on November 22.
Once officer was killed and four other were injured in the shoot-out that lasted about 22 hours.
The Georgian officer who died in an anti-terror operation earlier this week has been buried in a poignant funeral service in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi.
Georgia’s Chief Prosecutor’s Office has charged the only surviving suspect of a large-scale anti-terror operation in Tbilisi for terrorist activities.
One suspected terrorist has been arrested and three killed during today’s anti-terrorist operation on Gabriel Salosi Street in Tbilisi, the State Security Service announced a short time ago. Nino Giorgobiani, press speaker of the State Security Service, described in a detailed statement how the operation was conducted and how many people were arrested.
The State Security Service of Georgia announced a short time ago that the special operation to arrest suspected terrorists in Tbilisi has officially ended. The officer from the Special Operations Forces, who wounded during the operation, died in hospital.
Georgian Special Operation Forces Officer Ivane Golashvili, who was killed in a counter terrorism operation in Tbilisi last year, was posthumously awarded the Vakhtang Gorgasali First Degree State Medal today.
The US Department of State Country Report on Terrorism 2020 says that ‘Georgia is generally capable of detecting, deterring, and responding to terrorism incidents.’ The report says that ‘Georgia continued its robust engagement across a range of counterterrorism issues in 2020,’ noting that no terrorist incidents took place in the country in 2020.
Anna Chakvetadze will become the first Georgian female law enforcement officer to attend the Federal Bureau of Investigation National Academy, the United States Embassy in Tbilisi announced on Friday.
Georgian Interior Minister Vakhtang Gomelauri and Grigol Liluashvili, the Head of the State Security Service, on Wednesday honoured the memory of Ivane Golashvili, an Officer of the Special Operation Forces, who had been killed during a 22-hour-long counter-terrorism operation six years ago on Gabriel Salosi Street in Tbilisi.