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Azerbaijan Arrested Attack Plotters 'Linked to Hizbullah, Iran'
2012-02-23
They're getting rolled up all over the place! What d'you suppose is revealing them to the authorities?
Police in Azerbaijan have incarcerated an unspecified number of people linked to Iran and Hizbullah suspected of planning attacks in the country, Azerbaijan's state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
said Tuesday.

State broadcaster AzTV, quoting the National Security Ministry, said police had jugged people linked to Iranian intelligence services and Hizbullah who intended to stage attacks on foreign citizens in the country.
And now they won't be available for attacks when Iran really needs them. Kind of embarrassing they are so easily found...like they were only playing at being fearsome spies and saboteurs instead of being serious, like Mossad and the CIA. D'you suppose the armies are likewise comparable?
The report said the suspects had gathered intelligence on targets and bought explosives, guns and ammunition, but gave no further details.

The report comes after a car boom last week critically injured an Israeli diplomat in New Delhi while Georgian officials defused a second device in Tbilisi.

A suspected Iranian bomber had his legs blown off as he hurled a grenade at Thai police. Israel blamed Iran for the attacks which came at a time of heightened tensions over Tehran's nuclear program.

A senior Israeli security official warned on Friday that Iran and Hizbullah were planning to carry out "new" anti-Israeli attacks around the world after the incidents in India, Thailand and Georgia.

Police in mainly Mohammedan but officially secular Azerbaijan last month also incarcerated two men with alleged links to Iranian intelligence on suspicion of plotting to kill prominent Israelis in Azerbaijan.

The allegations infuriated Tehran, which sent a diplomatic note of protest accusing Baku of collaborating with Israel's spy services and helping assassins who have killed Iranian nuclear scientists.

Baku responded with a letter to Tehran calling the claim "absurd, unsubstantiated and false", according to Azerbaijani media reports on Tuesday.

Tehran has been angered by Baku's friendly links with Israel, while Azerbaijan has accused Iran of sponsoring Islamic Orcs and similar vermin on its territory.

Relations between the ex-Soviet state and the Islamic republic are complicated by the presence of a huge ethnic Azeri minority in Iran, which far outnumbers Azerbaijan's own population of 9.2 million.
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