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Azerbaijan says nabs militants, al Qaeda fighter Tue Nov 6, 2007 7:22am EST BAKU, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Azerbaijan's state security ministry said on Tuesday it had detained a group of armed Islamist radicals, including an alleged al Qaeda fighter. National Security Ministry spokesman Arif Babayev declined to say if the fighters were linked to a group of militant Islamists detained last month and suspected of planning attacks near the U.S. embassy in the Azeri capital, Baku. "As a result of a special operation carried out by the state security ministry on November 2-3, a group of eight people, including al Qaeda emissary Abu Jafar, was detained," the ministry said in a statement. It did not give Abu Jafar's full name. "The detained are linked to a radical Wahhabi (austere Islamic) group and had earlier fought in various conflict zones, forming part of illegal armed units," it added. The fighters were detained in Sumgayit, an industrial hub just outside Baku. They had maps of the town, the ministry said. The security ministry's spokesman Babayev said secret agents had uncovered a cache containing four crates of submachine guns, three pistols, hundreds of rounds, a dozen hand grenades and 1.75 kg (3.85 pounds) of TNT explosives. Last week's announcement of the detention of another group of Islamist radicals prompted a brief closure to the public of of the U.S. and British embassies as well as a Norwegian oil firm's office in Baku. Azerbaijan is an oil-producing, mostly secular Muslim republic of 8 million people on the western shore of the Caspian Sea, wedged between Iran, Turkey and Russia. In recent years, authorities have arrested dozens of people suspected of links to Islamist militants, but the country has no history of militant violence. (Reporting by Lada Yevgrashina; Writing by Dmitry Solovyov; Editing by Caroline Drees) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
