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Throughout his career, Heydar Aliyev - President of Azerbaijan, KGB general and veteran of spectacular Kremlin intrigues in the waning years of the U.S.S.R. - was a consummate in-fighter who prided himself on total control of the state machine. Earlier this month, as the 80-year-old Aliyev lay in a Turkish hospital, reportedly near death, he pulled off his final piece of political gamesmanship: the appointment of his 41-year-old son, Ilham, as Prime Minister, ensuring that should Heydar die or become incapacitated, Ilham can take over as acting President. And as a Russian IL-62 flying hospital rushed...
...Chechnya-Georgia region, says Jacquard, is a Jordanian known as Abu Atiyya. In addition to overseeing the deployment of militants to training camps, he is thought to play a key role in reassigning trained personnel to terror networks, including setting up sleeper cells in such places as Azerbaijan and Turkey. It's believed that within the last year, Abu Atiyya ordered a group of 15 "Chechens" to gravitate to Europe via Turkey. Six of those 15, according to French sources, were among nine people arrested in raids last month in La Courneuve and Romainville, north of Paris. Investigators say they...
...whether al-Qaeda is plotting one spectacular, centrally organized attack or a series of small-scale ad hoc strikes. Or both. Several months ago intelligence services discovered that dozens of Europe-based Arabs trained in al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan were wending their way back to the Continent via Azerbaijan, Chechnya and Turkey. But "there seems to be a lot of debate on where those fighters are right now, and that, too, is scaring authorities," French expert Jacquard claims. How do governments prepare citizens for so diffuse a threat? Perhaps by scaring them, as the British Home Office did last...
Armenia is a former Soviet republic that gained its independence in 1991. The country has been involved in territorial disputes with neighboring Azerbaijan which has harmed economic growth and development...
...point out that tens of thousands of Russians troops haven't managed to do this in over three years of war in Chechnya. What the Russians really want is to reimpose some degree of control over Georgia, whose strategic location was recently underlined by its agreement with Turkey and Azerbaijan to build an oil pipeline to the West that completely bypasses Russia. When the film's director and male lead, Murad Mazayev, a 25-year-old exile from the Chechen capital of Grozny, was filming in Pankisi, his main concerns were squaring the local mafiosi and allaying the fears...