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AZERBAIJAN TRAINS 15-YEAR-OLDS IN ESPIONAGE
Emirates 24/7
http://www.emirates247.com/news/world/azerbaijan-trains-15-year-olds-in-espionage-2012-01-11-1.437170
Jan 11 2012
UAE
Azerbaijan on Wednesday launched free military intelligence courses
for teenagers as young as 15 as the ex-Soviet state remains mired in
an unresolved conflict with neighbouring Armenia.
"Students will learn about skills necessary for an intelligence agent
as well as camouflage methods, the use of weapons and hand-to-hand
fighting," organiser Major General Novruzali Orujev told AFP.
Orujev said he launched the training programme in response to demand
from young people who wanted to serve in military intelligence when
conscripted into the armed forces.
He said 20 young people had been selected out of more than 70 who
applied to take part in the free month-long courses.
After completing the course male participants will be eligible to
join military intelligence units when they do national service.
Azerbaijan and Armenia are at loggerheads over breakaway Nagorny
Karabakh region, where ethnic Armenian forces backed by Yerevan seized
control from Baku during a war in the early 1990s that left around
30,000 people dead.
After peace talks mediated by the Organisation for Security and
Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) produced little if any result, Azerbaijan
stepped up its bellicose rhetoric, threatening to use force.
A flare-up between Azerbaijan and Armenia risks escalating into
a clash of major regional powers Russia, Iran, and Turkey as well
as the West, which all have strategic interests in the energy-rich
Caspian and Caucasus regions.
Military service is compulsory in Azerbaijan for males aged between 18
to 35 who have to complete between one year and 18 months of service
depending on their level of education.
Emirates 24/7
http://www.emirates247.com/news/world/azerbaijan-trains-15-year-olds-in-espionage-2012-01-11-1.437170
Jan 11 2012
UAE
Azerbaijan on Wednesday launched free military intelligence courses
for teenagers as young as 15 as the ex-Soviet state remains mired in
an unresolved conflict with neighbouring Armenia.
"Students will learn about skills necessary for an intelligence agent
as well as camouflage methods, the use of weapons and hand-to-hand
fighting," organiser Major General Novruzali Orujev told AFP.
Orujev said he launched the training programme in response to demand
from young people who wanted to serve in military intelligence when
conscripted into the armed forces.
He said 20 young people had been selected out of more than 70 who
applied to take part in the free month-long courses.
After completing the course male participants will be eligible to
join military intelligence units when they do national service.
Azerbaijan and Armenia are at loggerheads over breakaway Nagorny
Karabakh region, where ethnic Armenian forces backed by Yerevan seized
control from Baku during a war in the early 1990s that left around
30,000 people dead.
After peace talks mediated by the Organisation for Security and
Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) produced little if any result, Azerbaijan
stepped up its bellicose rhetoric, threatening to use force.
A flare-up between Azerbaijan and Armenia risks escalating into
a clash of major regional powers Russia, Iran, and Turkey as well
as the West, which all have strategic interests in the energy-rich
Caspian and Caucasus regions.
Military service is compulsory in Azerbaijan for males aged between 18
to 35 who have to complete between one year and 18 months of service
depending on their level of education.