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US and Israeli flags burned on Ashura Day in Azerbaijan - PHOTOSESSION

US and Israeli flags burned on Ashura Day in Azerbaijan - <font color=red>PHOTOSESSION</font>

07 January 2009 10:27 (UTC +04:00)

APA correspondent reports from Nardaran that Akhund of Nardaran Village Haji Mukhtar Rza addressed the people gathered in the mosque. He spoke about Armenian aggression against Azerbaijan and thousands of our citizens, who became martyrs as a result of this aggression and said that liberation of Karabakh and Iravan would pass through Quds. â€œThe time will come when millions of Muslim people will go against the tyrants and will establish that system, which Quran states and will liberate all Muslim lands from the occupation of tyrantsâ€.

Other people addressing the ceremony called on the world Muslims to unite.
At 12.00, on the peak of Ashura, the people began to beat themselves with chain. Then they burned US and Israeli flags and the process was accompanied by the exclamation of â€œAllahu Akbarâ€. Israeli flag was trampled in the mosqueâ€™s yard. It was stated in Ashura meeting that on the meeting for support of Palestinians will take place in Imam Hussein Square in Nardaran on January 9.

The Ashura Day is continued.