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"Militants fail to bomb Azeri pipeline'
The Azeri security service says it has disbanded a group of 'terrorists' who was planning to bomb the Baku-Novorossiysk Pipeline. In a statement issued on Tuesday, Azerbaijan's Security Ministry said the main objective of the group was to destabilize the country by exploding the pipeline and preventing the export of oil. The statement identified the leader of the group as Azer Misirkhanev aka Abdullah who is one of Azerbaijan's main Salafi figures. According to the ministry, Abdullah and 12 other members of the group, based in forests in Russia's Dagestan region, had illegally been crossing the border and smuggling arms and explosives into the Azerbaijan Republic. Abdullah was sentenced to jail over militant activities in 2001 but he reportedly resumed its activities after being released from prison. The 830-kilometer Baku-Novorossiysk Pipeline annually transfers almost 5 million tons of crude oil from Azerbaijan to the Black Sea coast in Russia. Posted by: Fred 2009-02-04 |
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