December 17, 2001 - 23:04 AMT
PAKISTANI MEDIA REPORTS USAMA BIN LADEN ASSOCIATES USE AZERI TERRITORY AS "PASSING POINT"
Azerbaijan is transit territory for terrorists of different types. Chairman of the commission on defense, national security, law and order of the National Assembly of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic Artur Mosiyan expressed such opinion in a conversation with "Arminfo" agency correspondent. In his words, NKR special services possess documents confirming that Afghan mojahidins participated in the Karabakh war on the side of Azerbaijan in 1991-1994. There is reliable information there are bases for training terrorists in Azerbaijan, too. Particularly in Shahumian region of Nagorno Karabakh occupied by it. Besides, Pakistani mass media has recently spread information that three associates of Usama bin Laden - Huseyn Ahmed Mikkavi, Seyful Adal, Ahmed Hamza Yemeni - left Afghanistan by crossing Azerbaijan.