The Azerbaijani authorities’ criticism of U.S. Ambassador Harnish, the unification of opposition groups and the involvement of NGOs and their use of the media as a means of propaganda are unmistakable characteristics of U.S. takeovers under the guise of democracy although bogus democracies at best. #msg-6118375
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There is a distinct pattern of US covert actions in changing regimes in Eastern Europe, in the context of this Eurasian strategy of the US, in which Ukraine fits the pattern. These regime changes should not be confused with true democracy.
In Ukraine a key part of the media game has been the claim that Yushchenko won according to "exit polls". What is not said is that the people doing these "exit polls" as voters left voting places were US-trained and paid by an entity known as Freedom House, a neo-conservative operation in Washington. Freedom House trained some 1,000 poll observers, who loudly declared an 11-point lead for Yushchenko. Those claims triggered the mass marches claiming fraud. The current head of Freedom House is former CIA director and outspoken neo-conservative, Admiral James Woolsey, who calls the Bush administration's "war on terror" "World War IV". On the Freedom House board sits none other than Brzezinski. This would hardly seem to be an impartial human-rights organization. #msg-5200451
see also: Azerbaijan is the Key to Understanding the Region #msg-6273501
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U.S. To Finance Exit Poll In Azerbaijan Election
(RFE/RL) 27 July (RFE/RL) -- The United States plans to finance an exit poll in Azerbaijan's November parliamentary elections to ensure a free and fair ballot.
The U.S. Embassy in Baku said on 26 July that such a poll can provide an early indication of probable election winners, and serves as one indicator of possible election fraud. It said the exit poll will be conducted by an experienced international organization in cooperation with Azerbaijani polling bodies.
The embassy described the poll as one of many activities that the United States government is undertaking to help Azerbaijan reach its goal of having free, fair, and democratic elections.
The October 2003 presidential vote -- in which President Ilham Aliyev succeeded his late father -- was widely alleged to have been fraudulent. It triggered clashes between police and demonstrators.
Washington has targeted Azerbaijan for takeover. It would seem that Ilham Aliyev by accepting the US base is desperately trying to hold on to his presidency. Although there is no guarantee that even if Azerbaijan becomes a good little American colony and gives in to all of Bush's demands Washington will back off.
Reference: It has been suggested that Western governments wanted to promote democratization in Azerbaijan out of a desire to protect the considerable investment made in the pipeline. That is only a part of the strategic game, however. The other part is what Pentagon strategists term "strategic denial".
Until recently the US had supported the corrupt ruthless dictatorship of the Aliyev's as the family had played ball with US geopolitical designs in the area, even though Haider Aliyev had been a career top KGB officer in the Soviet Mikhail Gorbachev era. Then on April 12, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld went to Baku, his second visit in four months, to discuss demands to create a US military base in Azerbaijan, as part of the US global force redeployment involving Europe, the Mideast and Asia. #msg-6998038
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Azerbaijan ready to host US forces
* The country will discuss the possiblility of transferring US airbase from Uzbekistan
MOSCOW: Azerbaijan is close to agreement with the United States on the establishment of a US military presence following the eviction of American forces from Uzbekistan, a Russian newspaper said on Wednesday.
“A decision wanted by Washington has almost ripened,” the Nezavisimaya Gazeta newspaper quoted an unnamed source close to the Azerbaijani foreign ministry as saying.
The president of the strategic Caspian country, Ilham Aliyev, “in the end will give his agreement to the deployment in the country of an American military contingent,” the source said.
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mamedyarov, who has been in Washington since Monday, would meet Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to discuss the possible US deployment on Wednesday, the newspaper said.
Mamedyarov would be holding talks at the Pentagon at which the main theme would be “not only general prospects for military cooperation but an extremely concrete question – the possibility of transferring the American base from Uzbekistan to Azerbaijan,” the newspaper said, summarising the views of unnamed analysts.
Nezavisimaya Gazeta cited a source in the Azerbaijani security forces as saying that a team of US military instructors was already in Azerbaijan looking at two possible sites for hosting the US military, one close to the capital Baku and the other close to the border with Iran.
The former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan could represent a highly strategic location for US forces, in part because it borders Iran – one of the countries named by US President George W Bush in his first term as forming an “axis of evil”.
The Caspian Sea region is being developed as a major alternative to Middle Eastern oil sources and is therefore considered by some analysts as a potential terrorist target.
But Moscow has been angered by the growing US presence in a region long seen as Russia’s sphere of influence, particularly as the United States has been helping to train the military of the neighbouring former Soviet republic of Georgia. afp
Crossfire War: Caucasus; Armenia/Azerbaijan Exchange Fire Azerbaijan to keep using Russian oil line
Bush is aggressively attempting a takeover of Azerbaijan.
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By Willard Payne
Night Watch: BAKU - According to the press service of the Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan, Armenian military units, located near the occupied village of Kuropatklino in Khojavend region, subjected positions of Azerbaijan armed forces on the opposite side to machine-gun fire and that they were silenced by counter-fire.
This is why the Caucasus is more of a flashpoint than even the Balkans. Azerbaijan has excellent relations with Iran and could easily receive military support from Iran, which could use the next war between the two to have more control over an area that not only borders Iran but also the oil rich Caspian.
Though Armenia does have working relations with Iran they are not as substantial as the military agreements Azerbaijan has signed with Tehran. Yerevan still has hostile and mutually suspicious relations concerning Ankara so their only hope of international assistance is most likely Moscow-Berlin.
Perhaps the importance of this region will dawn on Washington.
Night Watch Information Service http://www.crossfirewar.com Based in Flossmoor,IL 60422. ph:708-957-9651/fax:708-798-2929. e-mail:III82100@aol.com
Eric Watkins Senior Correspondent LOS ANGELES, Aug. 15 -- Azerbaijan will continue to use Russia's Baku-Novorossiysk pipeline even as the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline is being commissioned, according to Natiq Aliyev, president of the State Oil Co. of Azerbaijan. Aliyev told Azerbaijan's state news agency, MPA, on Aug. 15 that the Baku-Novorossiysk pipeline is being used now and will remain important even after the BTC pipeline is commissioned.
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