Azerbaijani Propaganda & Armenian Silence

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AZERBAIJAN TO TIGHTEN PROPAGANDA NOOSE AROUND Artsax

 

Azg/Arm

2 Nov 04

 

Associated Press: Bin Laden Fought at Least Two Battles for Azeris in

Artsax War

 

Vartan Oskanian, minister of foreign affairs of Armenia, stated at the

59th Session of the UN General Assembly on September 29: "Azerbaijan

was the first country to practice genocide within the Soviet Union,

first in using mercenaries and terrorist in the war".

 

Oskanian perhaps would not have mentioned of the terrorists but for

the Azerbaijan's President who condemned Armenia at the General

Assembly of "trading in drugs, weapon and in sheltering terrorists in

Artsax".

 

Ziayfat Askerov, vice-chairman of the Azeri parliament, stated at the

October meeting with the members of the British House of Lords in Baku

that they should look for bin Laden in Artsax and Azerbaijan's

occupied territories.

 

Recently receiving around 100 members of the AGBU, President of

Artsax Arkady Ghukasian mentioned that Azerbaijan is more actively

involved in lobbying "though it does not have diaspora" than

Armenia. But Armenia and Artsax keep silent despite the evidence

tracking down Azerbaijan's ties with international terrorism.

 

American Associated Press informed on November of 1999 that bin Laden

fought at least two battles against the Armenians in Artsax war. In

early 90s Baku was trying to paint the Artsax conflict into

religious colors in order to gain support from international terrorist

organizations.

 

Baku's Ekho wrote on September 1 of 2001 that the arrested Al

Qaedamember Jamal Ahmed Fadl, charged with the explosion of American

embassies to Kenyaand Tanzania, claimed that Al Qaeda has been

actively operating in Azerbaijan since 1989.

 

The Moscow News weekly wrote on September 13 of 2000 that the former

Azeri President Heidar Aliyev hired 1000 mojahedins to fight in

Artsax in 1993.But before Aliyev's presidency Chechen terrorists

were fighting againstArmenians.

 

 

In an Interview of June 14, 2000, given to Baku's ANS TV station,

Shamil Basayev said: "Frankly speaking, I personally took the

mojahedins out of Azerbaijan. We arrived there (Artsax) not for

gains but for jihad". Basayev also confessed that he was in Artsax

with his mojahedins several times in 1992and was one of the last

leaving Shushi.

 

While Azerbaijan condemns Armenia of "producing chemical and

biological weapons on the conquered territories", Azeri and foreign

printed media claim the opposite. France-Presse news agency

(18/03/99), British Sunday Times (18/07/99) and Baku's Zerkalo

(22/07/2000) and Ekho (29/08/2001) informed thatAhmad Salam Mabruk,

head of the Azeri branch of Al Qaeda, was arrested while trying to

acquire chemical and biological weapons in Azerbaijan.

 

Baku is tightening the propaganda noose around Nagorno Artsax by

throwing groundless accusations from different international

pulpits. Whereas Armenia and Artsax don't take time to remind the

international community of Azerbaijan' s ties with terrorist

organizations.

 

By Tatoul Hakobian

 

 

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