Man trying to burn down mosque in Baku appears to be PKK member

Rasa - Reports say that the citizen of Azerbaijan apprehended on December 1 on charges of trying to burn down a Baku mosque is a member of PKK terrorist group.

News ID: 1750

Date: 03 December 2014 - 15:37

RNA - Namig Nasibov, was arrested together with another man, Elnur Alakbarov.

According to Azerbaijani news media, Nasibov had also joined the fight against ISIL in Syria in August and September with the “terrorist PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party).”

According to Azerbaijani media outlets, the terrorist had used social media to call for protest rallies in Baku and plotted to intimidate Sunni Muslims through terror attacks. The reports say Nasibov and another man threw firebombs at a mosque in Garachukhur, Baku on November 26,.

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