The Taipei Times has an article entitled, Terror alert as new Caspian pipeline opens in Georgia, that takes a look at the measures taken by Georgia, to protect the newly opened $4 billion Baku Tbilisi Ceyhan pipeline against terrorism.Quote: "In the foothills of the Caucasus mountains, a long line of broken mud cuts across the meadows. If you go anywhere near it, camouflaged guards carrying automatic weapons emerge from the forest beyond. These guards in the Borjomi region of Georgia - trained by US Army and SAS (British special forces) veterans - are pawns in a new great game gripping Central Asia: their job is to protect the oil pipeline buried 3m below."
The pipeline is key in US plans to reduce dependency on OPEC oil producers in the Middle East.
