AZERBAIJAN: IS THERE AN ISLAMIC THREAT TO AZERBAIJAN?
From: IPR Strategic Business Information Database
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Date: 5/9/2001
Azerbaijan's deputy national security minister, Tofik Babaev, made headlines on 2 May with his claim at a Baku conference the previous day that Iran and unnamed Arab states are separately financing radical Islamist groups in Azerbaijan in a bid to overthrow the present Azerbaijani leadership. Specifically, Babaev affirmed that Tehran abducts young Azerbaijans and takes them to Iran for guerrilla training, and funds mosques and religious schools in Azerbaijan. He also claimed that ...
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