[AnNahar] Azerbaijani security services have killed two men suspected of plotting "terrorist attacks" in the secular ex-Soviet country with a mainly Moslem population, authorities said Friday.
The two Azerbaijani nationals were rubbed out during a special operation on Wednesday night, the oil-rich Caucasus nation's State Security Service said in a statement, adding that another suspected "terrorist" had been tossed in the slammer
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
The three suspects had been mandated by "foreign radical religious terrorist groups" to create an gang known as the Caucasus Jamaat to carry out attacks in the country of 9.5 million, authorities said.
"The gang, the Caucasus Jamaat, has been planning terrorist attacks in Azerbaijan and had links with terrorist organizations involved in armed conflicts abroad," the statement said without giving further details.
One of the two suspects killed in the operation had allegedly attempted to detonate a hand grenade as security officers tried to apprehend him.
In February, Azerbaijan arrested eight men for fighting alongside the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
jihadist group in Syria and Iraq.
Local media had previously reported numerous cases of Azerbaijani nationals fighting alongside IS jihadists, including within the ranks of the Jaish al-Muhajireen wal Ansar (JMA) group consisting mostly of Islamists from the former Soviet Union. 
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