That’s right. The story and the way it was presented may be extremely confusing, vague and convoluted. However, one thing was made sure of: repeatedly use Russia as the culprit behind the bribery and corruption and intelligence sabotage involved in the case. Just pay attention to how Armstrong repeats the phrase Russian oligarchy. Take notes on how the official operations via government entities and banks are limited to Russia. Interestingly, the reality and the facts point toward Western entities as culprits. Since 1995, since the assassination attempt on Heydar Aliyev that was planned in the United States and carried out by Abdullah Catli – a Turkish paramilitary operative on the CIA payroll since the 1980s – the major players in Azerbaijan aiming for its oil and pipeline potentials have been US power-players and their mercenary army called the CIA. I know that, totally by design, Americans have had very little history and context knowledge related to Azerbaijan and other energy source-rich similar Former Soviet States. Rather than going into complex details, I will present a few documented facts pertaining to US-led operations in Azerbaijan, including assassination, bribery, corruption, money laundering and beyond. During the first two years after Heydar Aliyev’s election in 1993, the United States tried several times unsuccessfully to recruit Aliyev into its camp for its pipeline-stan project and objectives. Do you remember the infamous BCCI Scandal ? Well, the main culprit in the scandal, Roger Tamar, serving his CIA handlers and US oil interest backers, was involved in one of these unsuccessful attempts by the United States to bring Azerbaijan into its sphere of control: In the early 1990s, after the Soviet Union loosened its grip on Central Asia, Tamraz was the originator of the 1,100- mile (1,800 km) Baku-Ceyhan ( Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline ) considered as “one of the great engineering endeavors”, an oil pipeline project, to move 1 million barrels per day (160,000 m3 /d) of Caspian Sea oil to the Mediterranean Sea and thus to world markets. Tamraz managed to obtain support for the proposed pipeline from Turkmen President Niyazov, Azerbaijan’s President Heydar Aliyev, and Turkey’s Prime Minister, Tansu Çiller, and Turkey’s Botas Company. Tamraz’s companies negotiated and signed the original pipeline right-of-way transit agreement with the Government of Turkey. Let’s put it this way, things were not going smoothly with Heydar Aliyev, who still carried some loyalty to Russia. When the business and bribery angle failed, the United States and its proxy, Turkey, went to Plan B: assassinate Heydar Aliyev and help install a new guy who would be a willing partner. Thus, came the assassination attempt in 1995 [All Emphasis Mine]: On 13 March 1995, an armed insurrection aimed at bringing Aliyev down was staged by the special unit of the Interior Troops (“OMON”) under the leadership of Colonel Rovshan Javadov. Four days later, on 17 March 1995, the units of Azerbaijani Armed Forces surrounded the insurgents in their camp and assaulted it, killing Javadov. Later, the Turkish parliamentary report on the 1996 Susurluk scandal revealed some details of the involvement of the Turkish government —led by Prime Minister Tansu Çiller and the Turkish intelligence —in this coup attempt. … Let’s add a bit more detail to this Turkish-led assassination attempt. The Turkish man who went to Azerbaijan via Turkey to lead the assassination operation was Abdullah Catli [All Emphasis Mine]: Çatlı was seen in the company of Stefano Delle Chiaie, an Italian neofascist who worked for Gladio, a secret NATO stay-behind paramilitary organization, while “touring Latin America, and on a visit to Miami in September 1982″. He then went to France, where, under the alias of Hasan Kurtoglu … He was sentenced to seven years imprisonment and in 1988 he was handed over to Switzerland, where he was also wanted on charges of drug dealing. However, he escaped in March 1990 with the assistance of mysterious accomplices .
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