The Don Corleone of Azerbaijan-Ilham Aliyev, His Cherished “Military Trophies Park”, And The Crucial Details He Forgot To Mention
If Italy is a country where the M afia has stretched its tentacles into every realm of the economy and the government bureaucracy, Azerbaijan is “The Mafia” owning a State. At the top echelon of the Azebaijani Mafia’s hierarchy you will find a local “Don Corleone” named Ilham Aliyev a.k.a The President of The Republic of Azerbaijan. W e are not assigning the name Don Corleone to Ilham Aliyev because we are Armenians and, generally speaking, we entertain very unflattering views about his personality. Thanks to Edward Snowden and the treasure trove of secret diplomatic documents/reports he released via WikiLeaks , it became obvious to us that many Western diplomats and heads of diplomatic missions (US in particular) stationed in Baku, truly believe that Ilham Aliyev ru les Azerbaijan with dictums and decrees that are reminiscent of Don Corleone’ s choking grip of his fiefdom. One US diplomatic document (on a long list of hundreds) forwarded from Baku to The State Department...