Yet traditional sellers of pharmaceuticals, backed by the health ministry, forced an about-turn.
Mr Utiashvili said a "small contingent" of Georgian interior ministry forces had moved into the village, alongside unarmed European Union monitors.
Interior ministry forces estimate that up to 1,000 Isis members were in Falluja when the battle began.
He said interior ministry forces hadn't suffered any casualties, while three attackers were killed and 13 wounded.
A Dagestani official told local reporters that the release was a result of an operation involving intelligence agents and ministry forces, but did not give details.
One 21-year-old even told us how interior ministry forces kidnapped him in February, believing that gay people had access to western money.
The gunfire had ceased, probably after the local vigilantes had realized it was Americans, not militias or Interior ministry forces entering our territory.
When unarmed protesters stormed the parliament building, chasing Mr. Shevardnadze out the back door, they passed unchallenged through ranks of thugs, interior ministry forces with linked shields, state security troops and the presidential security detail.
After the termination of the KTO, interior ministry forces will be withdrawn from Chechnya, and the Vostok (east) and Zapad (west) battalions of the ministry of defence will be disbanded, leaving the republic with no single force that is not under the control of Ramzan Kadyrov.
Until February, when the hearings began, conventional wisdom said Kosovo would be the easiest of the indictments to make stick: as president of Yugoslavia, prosecutors could, and did, argue that Mr Milosevic exercised "command responsibility" over army, police and interior ministry forces operating in the province before atrocities and ethnic cleansing triggered Nato bombing.
Bodies were still being counted in three mosques, three hospitals and two morgues, said Brotherhood spokesman Gehad el-Haddad early on Thursday, hours after a major assault led by interior ministry forces left behind scenes of shocking carnage at two sites used by supporters for the past six weeks.
