Azeri Activity
Friday, November 16th, 2012
BY GAREN YEGPARIAN
With all the election related activity, my focus had gotten directed
away from Turkic activities, but it’s time to remedy that.
You probably aren’t surprised by the fact that Azerbaijan has violated
the ceasefire regime 6000 times over just the first five months of
2012. That’s after registering a 2100% (no decimal point error!)
increase in such violations from 2006 to 2011. And, more and more of
those breaches have been along the Republic of Armenia’s borders, not
just the Nagorno Gharapagh Republic’s.
You probably aren’t surprised by the fact that Azerbaijan has refused
to withdraw its snipers from the borders, leading to an ongoing series
of untimely deaths. Plus, they are putting their kids through sniper
training, with anyone over 15 being eligible.
You probably aren’t surprised by the fact that Azerbaijan has
continued its hatemongering against anything Armenian as evidenced by
the country’s president’s declaration that `our main enemies are
Armenians of the world’, the hero’s welcome received by the axe
murderer of a sleeping Armenian, the threats to shoot down CIVILIAN
aircraft flying into Sdepanagerd, and the multibillion dollar spending
spree on military hardware – all directed against Armenia. Who else
would they use it against? Iran? Russia?
You probably aren’t surprised by the fact that Azerbaijan has secured
a puff-piece in Forbes, the noted business magazine, written by one
Hilary Kramer who is goo-goo-eyed over her impending exposure to
`cuisine and music’ at a gala dinner hosted by the Azerbaijan America
Alliance (AAA). She writes fawningly about the oil-money fueled
`development’ in the country and how underappreciated an ally poor old
Azerbaijan is! Not a word about the country’s horrible human rights
record, warmongering, and genocidal activities. This is what scads of
money buys for a regime that is as debased as Azerbaijan’s.
But…
You probably will be surprised that U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan,
Mornigstar, was denied access to the site in Julfa where Azerbaijan
destroyed a centuries old cemetery. What’s really insufferable is that
the best this representative of the U.S. could muster, by way of a
reaction in an embassy press release, is, `I regret that the
authorities, citing security reasons, made it impossible for me to
visit the site and personally see what is there’. How pathetic is
that? Contact the State Department and tell them to instruct their
ambassador to develop a spine!
You probably will be surprised that at a regular U.S. state Department
briefing, responding to a question about the threats against civilian
aviation (regarding flights into/out of the new Sdepanagerd airport),
the spokesperson said `… the United States urges the parties to find a
diplomatic solution to issues relating to the operation of the
airport…’ Wow, really, what a brilliant suggestion, who would have
ever thought of such a thing? Innocent lives are being threatened by a
government that canonizes axe murderers, and all we get is this lame
platitude.
You probably will be surprised that three members of the U.S. House of
Representatives – Rep. Hultgren (R-IL), Rep. Poe (R-TX), and Rep. Green
(D-TX) – have received a total of twenty contacts from foreign agents
or their hired representatives (in this case, mostly of Azerbaijan).
This kind of interaction must be reported by law, but there doesn’t
seem to be much substance since the typical report, at least in the
compilation I saw, is quite opaque. Here’s a sample: `Khayal
Sharif-zadeh from Azerbaijan America Alliance Corporation contacted
Luke Murry from Representative Poe’s office on behalf of the
government of Azerbaijan regarding Update on the Alliance’s Progress’.
This is probably the most worrisome phenomenon. Something may be
brewing, especially with the kind of money that Azeri and Turkish
outfits and agents are spending on their propaganda efforts. On the
other hand, this reveals that AAA is nothing more than a front for the
government of Azerbaijan. Also interesting is that one of the contacts
made was by none other than our old nemesis, former Speaker of the
House, Dennis Hastert, regarding Turkey.
It’s time to start pushing back. If you live in the congressional
districts of any of the three people named above, call them, visit
them, write them. Make sure they know you’re watching. That has a very
sobering effect on any elected official who wants to keep their seat!
It’s up to us as citizens to counteract the massive, money- and lies-
based anti-Armenian campaign of Ilham Aliyev and what is laughably
referred to as the Republic of Azerbaijan.
From: Baghdasarian
http://asbarez.com/106605/azeri-activity/