Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Dodging a bullet?

Azerbaijan said on Monday it had detained eight people including a Chechen man on suspicion of planning “terrorist acts” against a school and kindergarten in the capital of the oil-producing Caucasus state.

Secular authorities in mainly Muslim Azerbaijan, a tightly controlled former Soviet republic, are concerned over what they say is the rising influence of radical Islam and the threat posed to the country’s oil-fuelled economic growth.

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