December 3, 2004 - 19:53 AMT
"SHAHIDS" ADDRESS ILHAM ALIYEV
Azerbaijan is inventing a new scenario titled "Karabakh Guerillas" combining elements of a blockbuster, comics and a melodrama. As we have already informed, the trial of a group of "shahids", who were arrested in Baku on suspicion of launching a "guerilla war" in Karabakh, is over. Though it is clear as noonday that guerilla war is impossible in the territory of Karabakh, which is inhabited by Armenians. However, Azeris wanted once again to "demonstrate their bravery to the whole world". It became known today that the leader of the guerillas Rovshan Badalov addressed a letter to Supreme Commander-in-Chief Ilham Aliyev with a request to wage guerilla war in Karabakh. "Hundreds of thousands of our compatriots will join the "holy war". We will not ask questions like "how a guerilla war can be secret if it is announced for the whole world"; and "if there are thousands of volunteers eager to fight, so why not to start a real war instead of a guerilla one". As a matter of fact the above-mentioned "guerilla group" was formed of people from the "Fund of Army Support", while these people have immediate links with the Supreme Commander-in-Chief. Consequently, the formation of the group, the arrest and the letter was thought out by the very leadership.