Azerbaijan releases to Iran Israeli embassy-radar station bomb plotters
- August 14, 2010
- News
Israel was taken by surprise by the Azerbaijan government's release of two Lebanese Hizballah terrorists and an Iranian citizen from prison sentences for plotting attacks in Feb. 2009 on the Israeli embassy in Baku and on a key early warning radar station guarding against Iranian missile fire.
debkafile reports that Israel, which has extensive and strategically important ties with Azerbaijan, is dealing discreetly with a setback as potentially damaging as the breach with Turkey.