The Security Court in Azerbaijan on Wednesday sentenced to jail a group of citizens for affiliation with Al-Qaeda and plotting terrorist attacks in Azerbaijan. The group is formed of 16 people from Azerbaijan, Yemen, Chechnya, Dagestan, Turkey, and Kazakhstan, who were detained last summer after clashing with police forces in a neighborhood nearby Baku, where one policeman was killed.Leader of the group was sentenced for life, while four members of the group were sentenced to 7 years in jail, and the rest for five years in jail. According to official sources, investigations found that the group had strong ties and contacts with Al-Qaeda command, received training in Chechen fighters' camps in Georgia, and were planning to strike strategic targets in the area.