Azerbaijan's Ministry of National Security arrests radical Wahhabi group members, Senior Lieutenant Kamran Asadov and Farid Jabbarov
[ 10 Nov 2007 16:22 ] http://en.apa.az/news.php?id=38853 They admitted attacking Lukoil filling station and plotting a terror attack on the US embassy in Azerbaijan The National Security Ministry of Azerbaijan has announced that Kamran Asadov and Farid Jabbarov, two members of the wanted three-member radical Wahhabi group, have been arrested. The Ministry press service said Baku-born Kamran Asadov, 29, who served for Army Unit #N as Senior Lieutenant, in collaboration with other radical group members, stole 4 submachine guns, 1 PK machinegun, 20 hand grenades and ammunition from his military unit and ran away to make them available to other group members. Kamran Asadov and other group members came to Baku after hiding the stolen things in Isamyilli region of the country. On the intelligence about a terror attack to embassies of some countries, the Ministry carried out a special operation to foil the group. 03.00am on October 27, secret agents carried out an operation in a house in suburban Mashtaga settlement of Baku and arrested a number of group members ad killed one who put up armed resistance. Some of the ammunition and arms were discovered at the house and some in Ismayilli where they hid them. Through an ongoing search for other radical members, two other members of the target group - Vugar Aliyev, 25, and Elshan Mammadov, 24, were arrested. They unveiled the plot and intention that the group's target was a number of government structures and embassies of some countries, including that of the Unites States. They admitted that their plan to make a terror attach on the government structures and the US embassy failed after the operation in Mashtaga and seizure of ammunition. At 22.30, October 30, other group members- Kamran Asadov, Farid Jabbarov, Bakhtiyar Orujov attacked Lukoil filling station in Baku, fired at employees and robbed about AZN 3,000. The secret agents identified whereabouts of Kamran Asadov and Farid Jabbarov that they were hiding in a forest in Ismayilli and prepared a special plan to detain them. On November 9, secret officers handcuffed them without "leaving them time" to put up armed resistance while they were armed with submachine guns. 2 AKM submachine guns, 4 magazines and 120 cartridges were found on them. Kamran Asadov and Farid Jabbarov admitted that Bakhtiyar Orujov also participated in the attack on the filing station. They also confessed that the group planned to make a terror attack on the US embassy. The Ministry's search for Bakhtiyar Orujov is under way. /APA/ _____ Azerbaijani security forces announce arrest of key figure in alleged terror plot The Associated Press Saturday, November 10, 2007 http://www.iht.com/bin/printfriendly.php?id=8277138 <javascript:reportA4EBannerActivity(> <http://view.atdmt.com/jview/tcdxxkpo0130000028dsm/direct;ai.32465669;vt.2/0 1> BAKU, Azerbaijan: Security officers detained an army lieutenant wanted in connection with an alleged terrorist plot targeting the U.S. Embassy in Baku and other government buildings," Azerbaijani authorities said Saturday. Lt. Kamran Asadov and another man, identified as Farid Dzhabbarov, were arrested Friday in a forest outside the capital, Baku, some 10 days after they had robbed a gas station of several thousand dollars, the National Security Ministry said in a statement. The two had been sought in connection with what the ministry last month called plans for a "large-scale, horrifying terror attack." Asadov and Dzhabbarov confessed to the plot after their arrest, the ministry said. The announcement that the plot had been foiled prompted the United States and Britain to temporarily close their embassies in Baku, and the offices of several major international oil companies were also shuttered briefly. Asadov had deserted from a military unit and helped steal grenades, assault rifles and ammunition, according to the ministry. He was part of a group that the ministry described as following the strict Wahhabi interpretation of Sunni Islam, which counts Osama bin Laden and many al-Qaida members among its adherents. Several members of the group were killed on Oct. 27 in a village outside of the capital, Baku, as security forces tried to arrest them, according to the ministry. Asadov, Dzhabbarov and another man robbed the gas station three days later, and police were able to track them into the woods. The oil-rich Caspian Sea nation has increasingly been caught in a tug-of-war for influence between the secular, democratic West and Iran, its Shiite neighbor to the south. Rumblings of Shiite political Islam have been particularly noticeable in the more conservative southern regions that border Iran. Azerbaijan has some of the largest oil and gas reserves in the former Soviet Union. (F)AIR USE NOTICE: All original content and/or articles and graphics in this message are copyrighted, unless specifically noted otherwise. All rights to these copyrighted items are reserved. Articles and graphics have been placed within for educational and discussion purposes only, in compliance with "Fair Use" criteria established in Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976. The principle of "Fair Use" was established as law by Section 107 of The Copyright Act of 1976. 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