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Title: Azerbaijan arrests 22 over terror plot against US, Israel embassy Post by: dead0man on March 14, 2012, 12:09:38 PM link (http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4202927,00.html)
Quote Azerbaijan arrested 22 people on suspicion of plotting attacks on the US and Israeli embassies in Baku on behalf of neighboring Iran, the national security ministry said Wednesday. 22...which is 2 more than they arrested last month that were plotting the same kind of thing. And then there is the funny part..."Twenty-two citizens of Azerbaijan have been arrested by the national security ministry for cooperating with the Iranian Sepah," it said, referring to the elite Iranian Revolutionary Guards. "On orders of the Sepah they were to commit terrorist acts against the US, Israeli and other Western states' embassies and the embassies' employees," it said. The ministry said that the suspects were recruited from 1999 onwards and trained in the use of weapons and spy techniques at military camps in Iran to enable them to gather information on foreign embassies, organizations and companies in Azerbaijan and stage attacks. "Firearms, cartridges, explosives and espionage equipment were found during the arrest," the statement said, without specifying when or how the arrests were made. Quote The arrests come just days after Iran announced it was confident that neighboring Azerbaijan would not allow attacking forces to pass through its territory. I think Iran just made sure that their fears would be realized. Good. |