BAKU CONTINUES TO BE A REGIONAL CENTER OF INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST NETWORK

PanARMENIAN.Net - Several other terrorists closely connected with Azerbaijan are also involved in this case. This trial has revealed some interesting details, which were noted by the “Zerkalo” Baku newspaper quoting the “Al-Masaa” newspaper issued in Chair. Particularly, it became known that Abdel Rahman Fahri has established several cells of the “Inam” military-islamic organization in the Northern regions of Azerbaijan. His evidences showed that he was the advisor of the “Al-Tekwa” bank, which was financing the activity of Chechen and Palestinian terrorist structures. At the same time, the Canadian citizen of Egyptian origins was one of the ideologists of the brigade of defence of Islam of the congress of Northern Caucasus nations.

“Zerkalo” informs that the terrorist “has told in the court about his contacts in Baku and about the work carried out”. “He was asked, who has met him in Baku, from where he was receiving the finances, what cells exist in Baku, and did he have contacts with Azerbaijani officials and representatives of the opposition. Fahri gave precise answers to all this questions, providing names, telephone numbers, addresses as well as naming the finance sources,” the newspaper reads. The author of publication also informs that “the adventures of Fahri in Azerbaijan were recorded on the camera by the representatives of the Armenian Diaspora of Egypt”.
The recent arrest of Abdel Rahman Fahri is the last link of the chain of arrests of Egyptian terrorists who were visiting with great pleasure the capital city of Azerbaijan. Branches of several international extremist structures based in Egypt were operating freely in Baku during a long period of time. The most famous was the organization “Islamic Jihad”, which, being merged with the “Al Qaida” became one of its radical branches. The leader of this group, doctor Ayman Al-Zavahiri, who is named “the terrorist number two”, is considered by the American special services to be one of the main organizers of the September 11 attacks and the coordinator of terrorist acts against the US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Zavahiri has several times visited Baku where he was inspecting his representatives. According to the “Wall Street Journal”, last time he has been hosted by his Azerbaijani colleagues 5 years ago, when he was going to Chechnya via Baku. “He was accompanied by Ahmad Salama Mabruk, the head of the Azerbaijani branch of the “Islamic Jihad”, which is registered in Baku as a “Bavari-C” trade company. Together with him, doctor Zavahiri crossed the Russian-Azerbaijani border on December 1, 1996,” the newspaper writes.
The “terrorist carrier” of another Egyptian extremist is also connected with Azerbaijan. In spring this year, on the initiative of Egyptian special services, an inhabitant of Chair suspected of being connected with the terrorist acts in New York and Washington was arrested in Baku. His name was not announced in the interests of the investigation. The arrested person was sent to his motherland with the special flight of the “Egypt Airlines” company. When the case of the explosions in the American Embassies in Nairobi and Dar-Es-Salam was proceeding, it was revealed that besides the already mentioned Ahmed Salam Mabruk, his relative, Isam Hafis Mabruk and his “partner” Yasir el-Sarri were also working in Azerbaijan. In 1997 Ahmed was appointed head of the department of military operations of the “Islamic Jihad”. And from September 1997 the responsibilities of the head of the Baku branch of were laid on Ibragim Eydaruz.
All the above mentioned persons were involved during the trial of the case of terrorist acts in Tanzania and Kenya. It is known that it was from Baku that the explosions of the American Embassies were being organized, as a result of which 224 innocent people were killed and more than 5000 were injured. It has been proved that within the period from 1996 to 1998, Osama Bin Laden has 60 (!) times contacted Baku and negotiated with his local representatives.

The Azerbaijani authorities try to convince the world that they are fighting against the terrorist bases operating on the territory of the country. Meanwhile it is known that the law enforcement bodies of Azerbaijan have never undertaken attempts to neutralize the branches of Islamist terrorist organizations operating in their country. Not the Azerbaijani, but the American special services arrested in Baku Ahmed Salam Mabruk, Isama Hafis Mabruk, Yasir El-Sirri, Ibrahim Eyduraz in spring 2001. The American and not the Azerbaijani intelligence services have revealed that the fax instructing the explosion of the US Embassy in Nairobi was sent directly from Baku. The telephone contacts of the founder of the “Al Qaida” with his Baku emissaries were revealed by the CIS agents and not by the Ministry of National Security of Azerbaijan. The secret luggage sent to Baku by the organizers of the terrorist act in Kenya was not seized in the “Bina” airport by those who were responsible to do it. And even the arrest of the unknown Egyptian was organized not on the “own initiative” but as an answer to the request made by the Egyptian authorities.
Meanwhile, more than ten extremist structures financed from abroad are operating in Azerbaijan now. Among them – the “Hizbut-Tahrir”, the soldiers of which have prepared the terrorist act against the US Embassy and representations of international organizations in Baku, the “Jeyshullah” which is included in the list of the 39 most dangerous extremist groups in the world by the US Department of State, the “Ihvanul Muslimin”, “Gootbie”, “Inam”. The list can be continued. The Azerbaijani political scientist Rowshan Novruzoghlu says that the Islamist structures “Al-Ahsar” (Egypt), “Al-Zeytun” (Tunisia), “Prophet” (Saudi Arabia), “Abi Nur” (Syria) as well as many organizations from Sudan, Lebanon and other countries that are well-implanted in Azerbaijan play a significant role in planning of terrorist provocations and dissemination of Vakhabist ideology. This is the best confirmation that Baku continues to be one of the regional centers of the international terrorist network governed from the Arabian countries.