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Azerbaijani media noted that the video released by the State Security Service indicated that the suspect had been surveilling the area of the Israeli Embassy.
By TPS
Azerbaijani police on Monday thwarted an attack on a foreign embassy in Baku, most likely Israel’s.
Azerbaijan is a neighboring country to the Islamic Republic of Iran, a sworn enemy of Israel.
Afghan citizen Fawzan Mosa Khan was arrested by Azerbaijan’s security services on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack against an unspecified foreign embassy.
Azerbaijan’s State Security Service issued a statement alleging that Khan conspired in advance with other individuals to commit terrorist actions inside the territory of the Central Asia country.
While the statement did not specify the embassy, Azerbaijani media noted that the video released by the State Security Service indicated that the suspect had been surveilling the area where the Israeli Embassy is located.
Khan, born in 1990, planned an explosion, fire or something similar, according to the State Security Service.
“It was established that this foreign national arrived to the Republic of Azerbaijan from a foreign country with the intention of committing the above mentioned criminal acts and in order to identify the coordinates of a third country embassy and plan a terroristic act,” the State Security Service said.
The suspect “conducted a surveillance of the embassy building, attempted to identify and enroll individuals to participate in the terrorist act, obtained firearms and explosives, and conspired with other persons to receive financial support for this activity,” the statement continued.
Jerusalem and Baku have recently strengthened their diplomatic relations. Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen visited the country’s capital in April, which followed the March opening of an embassy in Israel. In doing so, Azerbaijan became the first Shi’ite Muslim country to open an embassy in the Jewish state.
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