October 30, 2001 - 21:46 AMT
AZERI SPECIAL SERVICES REPUDIATE THEIR AGENT SAYING HE IS MENTALLY ILL
According to publications in the press, the report about unmasking the agent of the Azeri special services, who had been sent to Armenia and had offered his services to the Armenian Ministry of National Security to bring about acts of terrorism on the Azerbaijan territory, has caused serious anxiety in Baku. As we have already reported, resident of Nakhichevan Dididvar village Muhammad Ojaverdiyev was recruited during serving sentence for desertion and after corresponding drill was sent to Armenia to provoke the special services of our country to recruit him and use in diversionary purposes. In case the operation succeeded, it was expected to accuse Armenia in terrorism and discredit it in the opinion of the international community. To decline all responsibility for the actions of Ojaverdiyev the Azerbaijani special services concocted that he was mentally disordered. They say that everything he has said in Yerevan is ravings of a madman. Although it is not clear in this case why he served sentence in a common colony instead of compulsory treatment in a mental hospital.