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Police in South Ossetia ordered to return fire
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Contributed by World News
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By STEVE GUTTERMAN Associated Press Writer= MOSCOW (AP) - Police in South Ossetia have been ordered to shoot back if they come under fire — a directive that increases the threat of new violence in the Russian-backed separatist region which broke away from Georgia. South Ossetia's top police official issued the order after a police post came under automatic weapons fire Saturday from the ethnic Georgian village of Nikozi, the separatist government said on its Web site. Acting Interior Minister Mikhail Mindzayev said no one was hurt by the gunfire, which he called...
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