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Radical religious group member: â€œThe Caucasian Muslims Office offered me Imamat and teachingâ€

02 April 2009 11:23 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Ramil Mammadli â€“APA. The hearing on the case of former officer of Azerbaijani Army Kamran Asadov and 19 others was continued in the Military Court of Grave Crimes on Thursday. APA reports that judge Islam Neymanov presided over the process. Accused Hajibala Huseynov answered the questions of the judge and prosecutor, who asked him about the ideas from the CD-recorded messages he had and operations in Iraq, Chechnya and Afghanistan.
Judge Rashid Huseynov asked Hajibala Huseynov about his Islamic mission.
Huseynov said he never called for the armed jihad and anti-State activity. He said he got a religious education to be Imam. He talked about the Caucasian Muslims Officeâ€™s attitude to him. He said Sheikh-al-Islam Allahshukur Pashazadeh met with him and other students on their graduation from the Baku religious lyceum in 2003. â€œThey presented me Holy Quran and offered me Imamat and teaching in one of the mosques of Gazakh. I am invitatory of Islam and making clear the religious disputes in my messages. I never group the people and never call for the fightingâ€.

There were disputes between prosecutor Oruj Jalilov, judge Islam Neymanov and accused persons, arisen from Huseynovâ€™s speech â€œI hate Armenians and if I kill five Armenians in Syria, they will arrest me. Azerbaijan will judge me again instead of defending. There are Armenians in Azerbaijan too. You will arrest me if I kill themâ€.
Accused Kamran Asadov said that there were 40 thousand of Armenians in Baku. â€œWhy you donâ€™t expel them from Baku?â€
The prosecutor and the judge protested these ideas.
The hearing will be continued in the second half of the day.

Kamran Asadov, Bakhtiyar Orujov, Farid Jabbarov, Elshan Mammadov, Kamran Babayev, Samir Mehbaliyev, Terlan Karimov, Edgar Aliyev, Ramil Karimov, Shirvani Babayev, Samir Aliyev, Yashar Maharramov, Orkhan Alizadeh, Hajibala Huseynov, Azer Ibadov, Shahriyar Maharramov, Ramin Jalilov, Rovshan Abdulaliyev, Ilkin Ismayilov and Vugar Aliyev are accused of setting up a radical religious group, attempting to start military struggle, attacking on LUKoil petrol station in Baku, preparing terror attack on the U.S. and UK embassies in Azerbaijan.