Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan
Location	Asia
Type	nation state
Interest of	Aliyev family, Richard Morningstar
Member of	UN
Subpage	•Azerbaijan/President
A former part of the USSR.

Azerbaijan is a central Asian nation state.

1990s

[A] host of players with long histories in criminal government were active in Azerbaijan. Richard Secord, who had a criminal history stretching back to heroin trafficking in Vietnam and who was a senior officer in the Enterprise, ran a mercenary army in Azerbaijan made up of Al Qaeda mercenaries.

Operation Gladio B

Full article: Operation Gladio/B

Sibel Edmonds has stated that when she was working for the FBI, Azerbaijan was one of 4 countries which they were not permitted to monitor under FISA (the others being Belgium, UK and Turkey). She suggests that this was due to concerns about protecting deep state drug trafficking.

 

An event carried out

Event	Location	Description
Evacuation from Afghanistan	Afghanistan	The evacuation of foreigners from Afghanistan, one of the largest airlifts in history

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Yossef Bodansky	“According to Yossef Bodansky, then Director of the US Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, Washington was actively involved in "yet another anti-Russian jihad, seeking to support and empower the most virulent anti-Western Islamist forces." Bodansky revealed the entire CIA Caucasus strategy in detail in his report, stating that US Government officials participated in "a formal meeting in Azerbaijan in December 1999 in which specific programs for the training and equipping of Mujahideen from the Caucasus, Central/South Asia and the Arab world were discussed and agreed upon, culminating in Washington's tacit encouragement of both Muslim allies (mainly Turkey, Jordan and Saudi Arabia) and US "private security companies'. . . to assist the Chechens and their Islamist allies to surge in the spring of 2000 and sustain the ensuing Jihad for a long time…Islamist Jihad in the Caucasus as a way to deprive Russia of a viable pipeline route through spiraling violence and terrorism".”	William Engdahl Yossef Bodansky	2015
Nigel Gould-Davies	“For Azerbaijan, [the reconquest of Nagorno-Karabakh] is a total victory won by the cruel, hard methods of military force and economic blockade, together with training and equipment from Turkey....But the key question is how relations between the west and Azerbaijan will develop. The west's energy ties with the oil and gas-rich country are more important than ever as it weans itself off Russian supplies. Now there are new security possibilities, especially in light of the war in Ukraine. Azerbaijan is the only country that borders both Russia and Iran, two western adversaries whose ever-closer relations evoke growing alarm. Azerbaijan’s ties with Turkey, a Nato member that also provides weapons support to Ukraine, means that it is receiving military training according to the alliance's standards. All this offers the potential for a deeper relationship, if the west has the strategic imagination to grasp it.”	Nigel Gould-Davies	5 October 2023

 

Event

Event	Description
Azerbaijani laundromat	Complex money laundering operation run by Azerbaijan uncovered in 2017.

 

Citizens of Azerbaijan on Wikispooks

Title	Born	Description
Ilham Aliyev	24 December 1961	President of Azerbaijan since 2003.
Khadija Ismayilova	27 May 1976

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