Yaakov Lappin and Reuters contributed to this report/
Hasan Faraji, a suspected Iranian Quds Forces operative. Photo: Screenshot Channel 10
Posted on 11/24/2013 8:44:57 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Hasan Faraji, 31, was arrested by Azerbaijani police after displaying “suspicious behavior” while wandering around the Israeli embassy in Baku on October 31. Faraji, who resisted arrest, was sentenced to 30 days of administrative detention, according to the APA news agency.
According to Channel 10, Faraji is a part of the Iranian Quds Forces, a special unit of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard that, among other oles, is tasked with planning and executing terrorist attacks against Israeli targets overseas.
On Thursday an Iranian diplomat said Faraji denies he was planning any attack... Iranian embassy officials met Faraji in custody...
Azerbaijani police raided Faraji’s house, where it found plans and photographs indicating his intention to commit a series of terrorist attacks against Israelis at the embassy.
Iranian media accused Azerbaijani authorities of torturing Faraji to get a confession out of him of things he did not plan to do.
A spokesman for the Azerbaijani Interior Ministry told news agency APA that accusations of torture were "groundless."
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Hasan Faraji, a suspected Iranian Quds Forces operative. Photo: Screenshot Channel 10
Have a great day, all.
Honorary son of obama....
Interesting looking, is there a larger version? Thanks MUDDOG.
Probably someone should check the perp’s (the one from Iran) voicemails.
Only time I saw it was a few minutes ago on the wikipedia page for Azerbaijan, and was struck by its resemblance to the Sherlock Holmes story.
Nice associative thinking! But anyway, intriguing petroglyphs, 10000 BC. Sez it has dry semi-tropical climate, that’s interesting too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gobustan_State_Reserve
What a rich site! Need to keep the Taliban-types away from it.
Best way to do that is to get rid of Islam.
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