Azerbaijan says foils plot to attack US embassy
BAKU, Oct 29 (Reuters) Azerbaijan's state security ministry said today it had detained a group of militant Islamists who were preparing an armed attack near the US embassy in the ex-Soviet state's capital.
''Several people belonging to a Wahhabi group have been detained.
They were planning terrorist attacks near the US embassy in Baku,'' National Security Ministry spokesman Arif Babayev told Reuters.
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Story first published: Monday, October 29, 2007, 20:35 [IST]