AZERBAIJAN SUPPORTS THE TERRORISTS

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Russian special services investigating the terrorist act taken place recently in Moscow have enough proofe of close relations of the bandits with partners in Baku. In Azerbaijan they do not try to hide any more their kindly feelings for the militarists which seize hundreds of hostages and kill peaceful citizens.

 

/PanARMENIAN.NET/ Mortals, mojaheddins, shahids, soldiers...this is how the Baku press calls the executors of the monstrous act. They were given different names but not terrorists. The bandits of the storm, they set free all the citizens of Azerbaijan present in the hall. Why so late? Before, they did not have information that among the hostages there were representatives of a friendly country. The terrorists told the Azerbaijani journalists, with which they had a telephone conversation, about this: "We didn't know that there were 5 Azerbaijanis in the hall. If we knew it, we would have released them immediately," the assistant of Barayev, Abu Said told in an interview with the "Zerkalo" newspaper of Baku. The same newspaper noted that the Azerbaijani citizens were set free not as foreigners but as citizens of a country which enjoyed their confidence. "Despite the expectations and agreements, the Chechens did not set free any of the foreign hostages, besides the Azeris," "Zerkalo" notes proudly.

 

It has become known that the leaders of the bandits, Movsar Barayev and Abu Said, more than 15 times contacted with Baku and received instructions. This was confirmed by the publications in the Azerbaijani press informing about the contracts of the bandits with a certain Ali Asayev which introduced himself as the political representative of Aslan Maskadov. Evidently, the terrorists were contacting the leader of Ichkeria, which turned to be the direct leader of the bloody operation, through Baku. By the way, in an interview with the journalists of Baku, Abu Said confirmed that Maskhadov had personally worked on this operation:

-Did Maskhadov or someone else from the commanders know abot yoru plans?

-Of course. This was a well-prepared plan. We were getting ready during the whole summer.

-Do you have an opportunity know to get in contact with Maskhadov or Shamil Bassayev?

-Yes, of course.

-When this operation was being prepared, did Aslan Maskhadov participate?

-Yes, this plan was being worked out jointly.

 

So, it is evident that in the person of Ali Asayev the Baku authorities "sheltered" not a "refugee from Chechenya" but a representative of a structure leading the terrorists. However, the special services of Azerbaijan were not even trying to stop the activity of the representative of terrorists. The information published on the site of the ideologists of Ichkeria confirms that structures created by the Chechen Diaspora openly operate in Baku and they assist to the bandits. "The Chechen refugees living in Azerbaijan organized a mass action in support of the demands of mojaheddins. The refugees demand starting political negotiation, "Kavkaz.org", the main mouthpiece of the Chechen propaganda, informs.

 

Baku press has also started a propaganda campaign about the aims and objectives of the Chechen terrorists. During the two days when the hostages were being kept, people didn't hiding their support to bandits, were given an opportunity to speak. These are some quotations from Ali Asanov: "The events of Moscow are not a terrorist act but the adequate reaction of Chechens. I think everything the leader of the group, Movsar Barayev does, is rather human. They are called international terrorists. I am surprised of this qualification". Alla Dudayeva(the widow of the former President of Ichkeria which is now in Baku): "I think that the demands of the group are ralistic...Johar Dudayev would have understood them". Arzu Abdullayeva, representative of the Azerbaijani national committee of the "Helsinki civil initiative": "I understand the desperation fo those who executed the terrorist act, because all the proposals of the President Aslan Maskhadov addressed to the Russian authorities to start negotiations have remained unanswered". Mehti Chettinbash(chairman of the "Caucasus" foundation functioning in Turkey): "This is not terrorism...I think that taking into account the nowdays realities, the meaning of the word "terrorism" should be revised".

 

And now some quotation from the information agencies spread by the Russian media. ORT: "The leaders of the terrorists have several times contacted Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Azerbaijan. All the contacts with foreign countries have been fixed. Further on the work will be done together with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs".

NTV: "The person seized near the concert hall suspected of contacts with terrorists, turned to be an Azerbaijani citizen".

RTR: "It is known that Barayev's group was being financed from Azerbaijan..."

 

All these quotations characterize Azerbaijan negatively. This time the Baku authorities will hardly manage to escape from the reputation of supporters of international terrorists.

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Trial of the case on one of the members of "Al Qaida", Canadian citizen Abdel Rahman Fahri is going on in Egypt these days. He was being hidden in Azerbaijan for a long time and was coordinating the contacts of the extremist structures operating in Arabian countries with Azerbaijan.

 

/PanArmenian.NET/ Several other terrorists closely connected with Azerbaijan are also involved in this case. This trial has revealed some interesting details, which were noted by the "Zerkalo" Baku newspaper quoting the "Al-Massa" newspaper issued in Chair. Particularly, it became known that Abdel Rahman Fahri has established several cells of the "Inam" mailitary-islamic organization in the Northern regions of Azerbaijan. His evidences showed that he was the advisor of the "Al-Tekwa" bank, which was financing the activity of Chechen and Palestinian terrorist structures. At the same time, the Canadian citizen of Egyptian origins was one of the ideologists of the brigade of defence of Islam of the congress of Northern Caucasus nations.

 

"Zerkalo" informs that the terrorist "has told in the court about his contacts in Baku and about the work carried out". "He was asked, who has met him in Baku, from where he was received the finances, what cells exist in Baku, and did he have contacts with Azerbaijani officials and representatives of the oppositon. Fahri gave precise answers to all this questions, providing names, telephone numbers, addresses as well as naming the finance sources," the newspaper reads. The author of publication als informs that "the adventures of Fahri in Azerbaijan were recorded on the camera by the representatives of the Armenian Diaspora of Egypt."

The recent arrest of Abdel Rahman Fahri is the last link of the chain of arrests of Egyptian terrorists who were visiting with great pleasure the capital of Azerbaijan.. Branches of several international extremist structures based in Egypt were operating freely in Baku during a long period of time. The most famous was the organization "Islamic Jihad", which, being merged with the "Al Qaida" became one of its radical branches. The leader of this group, doctor Ayman Al-Zavahiri, who is named "the terrorist number two", is considered by the American special services to be one of the main organizers of the September 11 attacks and the coordinator of terrorist acts against the US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Zavahiri has several times visited Baku where he was inspecting his representatives. According to the "Wall Street Journal", last time he has been hosted by his Azerbaijani colleagues 5 years ago, when he was going to Chechnya via Baku. "He was accompanied by Ahmad Salama Mabruk, the head of the Azerbaijani branch of the "Islamic Jihad", which is registered in Baku as a "Bavari-C" trade company. Together with him, doctor Zavahiri crossed the Russian-Azerbaijani border on December 1, 1996," the newspaper writes.

 

The "terrorist carrier" of another Egyptian extremist is also connected with Azerbaijan. In spring this year, on the initiative of Egyptian special services, an inhabitant of Chair suspected of being connected with the terrorist acts in New York and Washington was arrested in Baku. His name was not announced in the interests of the investigation. The arrested person was sent to his motherland with special flight of the "Egypt Airlines" company. When the case of the explosions in the American Embassies in Nairobi and Dar-Es-Salam was proceeding, it was revealed that besides the already mentioned Ahmed Salam Mabruk, his relative, Isam Hafis Mabruk and his "partner" Yasir el-Sarri were also working in Azerbaijan. In 1997 Ahmed was appointed head of the department of military operations of the "Islamic Jihad". And from September 1997 the responsibilities of the head of the Baku branch of were laid on Ibragim Eydaruz.

All the above mentioned persons were involved during the trial of the case of terrorist acts in Tanzania and Kenya. It is known that it was from Baku that the explosions of the American Embassies were being organized, as a result of which 224 innocent people were killed and more than 5000 were injured. It has been proved that within the period from 1996 to 1998, Osama Bin Laden has 60(!) times contacted Baku and negotiated with his local representatives.

 

The Azerbaijani authorities try to convince the world that they are fighting against the terrorist bases operating on the territory of the country. Meanwhile it is known that the law enforcement bodies of Azerbaijan have never undertaken attempts to neutralize the branches of Islamist terrorist organizations operating in their country. Not the Azerbaijani, but the American special services arrested in Baku Ahmed Salam Mabruk, Isama Hafis Mabruk, Yasir El-Sirri, Ibrahim Eyduraz in spring 2001. The American and not the Azerbaijani intelligence services have revealed that the fax instructing the explosion of the US Embassy in Nairobi was sent directly from Baku. The telephone contacts of the founder of the "Al Qaida" with his Baku emissaries were revealed by the CIS agents and not by the Ministry of National Security of Azerbaijan. The secret luggage sent to Baku by the organizers of the terrorist act in Kenya was not seized in the "Bina" airport by those who were responsible to do it. And even the arrest of the unknown Egyptian was organized not on the "own initiative" bu as an answer to the request made by the Egyptian authorities. Meanwhile, more than ten extremist structures financed from abroad are operating in Azerbaijan now. Among them- the "Hizbut-Tahrir", the soldirs of which have prepared the terrorist act against the US Embassy and representations of international organizations in Baku, the "Jeyshullah" which is included in the list of the 39 most dangarous extremist groups in the world by the US Department of State, the "Ihvanut Muslims", "Goothbie", "Inam". The list can be continued. The Azerbaijani political scentist Rawshan Novruzoghlu says tha the Islamist structure "Al-Ahsar"(Egypt), "Al-Zeytun"(Tunisia), "Prophet"(Saudi Arabia), "Abi Nur"(Syria) as well as many organizations from Sudan, Lebanon and other countries that are well-implanted in Azerbaijan play a significant role in planning of terrorist provocations and dissemination of Vakhabist ideology. This is the best confirmation that Baku contiunes to be one of the regional center of the international terrorist network governed from the Arabian countries.