Monday, October 29, 2007

Security forces in oil-rich Azerbaijan Foils U.S. Embassy Attack by Islamic Group

Monday, October 29, 2007
Security forces in oil-rich Azerbaijan prevented a planned terrorist attack on the U.S. embassy in the capital Baku by fundamentalist Islamic militants, officials said... An Azerbaijani terrorist group aimed to attack government buildings and the U.S. Embassy in Baku, National Security Ministry spokesman Arif Babayev said in a telephone interview today... Law enforcement officers killed one of suspected militants when he resisted arrest and detained others during an early morning operation outside the capital on October 27, Babayev said... The United States and the U.K. today closed their embassies in Baku in response to “security concerns.”...

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