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AZERBAIJAN THWARTS TERROR ATTACK AGAINST ISRAELI, JEWISH TARGETS
By Eli Shvidler
Ha'aretz
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/azerbaijan-thwarts-terror-attack-against-israeli-jewish-targets-1.408705
Jan 23 2012
Israel
Security official in Baku links Iran to planned operation; three
men detained.
Three men were detained last week after planning to attack two
Israelis employed by a Jewish school in Baku, the Azerbaijan Ministry
of National Security has revealed. Meanwhile, an Azeri commentator
considered close to the republic's president has launched a scathing
indictment of Iran.
The Azeri ministry said it had arrested a cell that planned to "kill
public activists," before it became apparent that the intended victims
were two Israeli Chabad emissaries, a rabbi and a teacher employed by
the "Chabad Or Avner" Jewish school in Baku. The ministry said that
the three men, named as Rasim Aliyev, Ali Huseynov and Balaqardash
Dadashov, received smuggled arms and equipment from Iranian agents.
The action was apparently planned as retaliation to the gunning down
of Iranian nuclear scientists.
"The Azeri security forces acted covertly without alerting us,"
said Rabbi Shneor Segal, one of the two targets. "It was published
that they originally planned to attack 'people who look Jewish and
hold foreign passports,' near the school, but when the school guards
began suspecting them, they started monitoring the area where I live,"
he told Haaretz.
Segal added that the second target was Rabbi Mati Lewis.
Irani-Azeri relations, which were never rosy, recently deteriorated
even further after Azeri Communication Minister Ali Abbasov accused
Iran of carrying out a cyber attack against several offices in the
country accused of "cooperation with Israel."
Wafa Guluzade, a political commentator considered close to Azerbaijani
President Ilham Aliyev, warned Iran that "planning the murder of
prominent foreign citizens in Azerbaijan by a band of terrorists,
one of whom [Dadashov] resides in Iran, amounts to 'hostile activity'
against our country."
Guluzade said that Iran would "break all its teeth trying break us ...
no Iranian provocation will influence the sociopolitical situation
in Azerbaijan. Iran and its primitive ayatollahs sense their end is
near and are trying to terrorize their neighbors. If they persists
they will be answered by us, and by our Western allies."
Azerbaijan has accused Iran of supporting Armenia in the conflict
surrounding the Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. Last November
an Iranian parliament member accused Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan of
being "local Mossad bases."
By Eli Shvidler
Ha'aretz
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/azerbaijan-thwarts-terror-attack-against-israeli-jewish-targets-1.408705
Jan 23 2012
Israel
Security official in Baku links Iran to planned operation; three
men detained.
Three men were detained last week after planning to attack two
Israelis employed by a Jewish school in Baku, the Azerbaijan Ministry
of National Security has revealed. Meanwhile, an Azeri commentator
considered close to the republic's president has launched a scathing
indictment of Iran.
The Azeri ministry said it had arrested a cell that planned to "kill
public activists," before it became apparent that the intended victims
were two Israeli Chabad emissaries, a rabbi and a teacher employed by
the "Chabad Or Avner" Jewish school in Baku. The ministry said that
the three men, named as Rasim Aliyev, Ali Huseynov and Balaqardash
Dadashov, received smuggled arms and equipment from Iranian agents.
The action was apparently planned as retaliation to the gunning down
of Iranian nuclear scientists.
"The Azeri security forces acted covertly without alerting us,"
said Rabbi Shneor Segal, one of the two targets. "It was published
that they originally planned to attack 'people who look Jewish and
hold foreign passports,' near the school, but when the school guards
began suspecting them, they started monitoring the area where I live,"
he told Haaretz.
Segal added that the second target was Rabbi Mati Lewis.
Irani-Azeri relations, which were never rosy, recently deteriorated
even further after Azeri Communication Minister Ali Abbasov accused
Iran of carrying out a cyber attack against several offices in the
country accused of "cooperation with Israel."
Wafa Guluzade, a political commentator considered close to Azerbaijani
President Ilham Aliyev, warned Iran that "planning the murder of
prominent foreign citizens in Azerbaijan by a band of terrorists,
one of whom [Dadashov] resides in Iran, amounts to 'hostile activity'
against our country."
Guluzade said that Iran would "break all its teeth trying break us ...
no Iranian provocation will influence the sociopolitical situation
in Azerbaijan. Iran and its primitive ayatollahs sense their end is
near and are trying to terrorize their neighbors. If they persists
they will be answered by us, and by our Western allies."
Azerbaijan has accused Iran of supporting Armenia in the conflict
surrounding the Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. Last November
an Iranian parliament member accused Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan of
being "local Mossad bases."