AZERBAIJAN DETAINS ARMENIAN SABOTAGE GROUP
ANS TV, Azerbaijan
April 29 2008
As has been reported, plans of a military group, made up of special
purpose troops of the Armenian armed forces, to commit acts of sabotage
on Azerbaijani territory have been thwarted. All the members of the
four-men group have been detained in a counter-operation. Col Seyran
Shakhsuvaryan, the spokesman for the [Armenian] Defence Ministry,
has already confirmed this fact. He said that the incident occurred in
[Azerbaijani exclave of] Naxcivan.
However, the Armenian side claims that the men detained by the
Azerbaijani law-enforcement agencies, were not a military group made
up of special force troops but are civilians. In the meantime, the
Azerbaijani Defence Ministry in a statement issued today said that
they are special purpose troops of the Armenian army.
The head of the press service of the Azerbaijani Defence Ministry,
Eldar Sabiroglu, told ANS that the group was rendered harmless by
the military units of the Azerbaijani Defence Ministry while plotting
acts of sabotage on Azerbaijani territory. All the four members of the
group were arrested. They confessed to a number of aspects during the
preliminary questioning and it emerged that the men were the members
of a sabotage group of the Armenian army.