CBS News/AP: Despite Fraud, No Revolt in Azerbaijan

[PhilipShore]

CBS News
World
Nov. 26, 2005

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/11/26/ap/world/mainD8E42PE80.shtml

(AP) Azerbaijan has some of the main ingredients of the popular revolts that have swept through other former Soviet states in the last two years _ an election widely assessed as fraudulent and leaders accused of growing rich through corruption.

But unlike the uprisings that brought opposition leaders to power in Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan _ respectively known as the Rose, Orange and Tulip revolutions _ Azerbaijan's opposition has been unable to marshal a massive outpouring of discontent more than two weeks after disputed parliamentary elections.

[Eric J in MN]

1. We have election fraud and "leaders...growing rich through corruption"

and we tolerate it as well.

[sofa king]

2. What color is our revolution going to be?

I'm rather partial to houndstooth myself, but that's not really a color.

[anotherdrew]

10. puce

a blueish red color, maybe just purple.

[The2ndWheel]

3. Well when you have these guys

http://www.usacc.org/contents.php?cid=2

involved with your Chamber of Commerce...

My favorite, the strategic security manager of Coca Cola on the Board of Directors, in addition to the numerous oil company representatives.

[Mika]

5. That's one hell of a list on the C of C

Yikes! :wow:

CHAIRMAN EMERITUS

T. Don Stacy



CO-CHAIRMEN OF THE BOARD

James A. Baker, IV
Partner, Baker Botts, L.L.P.

Reza Vaziri
President, R.V. Investment Group



BOARD OF DIRECTORS

The business affairs of USACC are managed by its Board of Directors which is composed of distinguished individuals with an interest in the U.S.-Azerbaijan relationship.

Tim Cejka
President, ExxonMobil Exploration Co.

Farhad Azima
Chairman & CEO, Aviation Leasing Group

Betty Blair
Editor, Azerbaijan International

Greg Saunders
Director, International Affairs, BP

Diana Sydney
Manager, International Government Relations for Chevron

Arne Holhjem
President, Caspian Region ConocoPhilips

Stanley Escudero
Consultant, Moncrief Oil International

Bill Ichord
Vice President, Unocal

Michael Griffin
Vice President, International Operations, Devon Energy

Gregory K. Williams
Strategic Security Manager, Coca Cola

Shapoor Ansari, MD


FORMER MEMBERS OF THE ADVISORY COUNCIL AND THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

The following individuals of high distinction have previously served on the Advisory Council and the Board of Directors:

Dick Cheney
Vice President of the United States of America

Richard Armitage
Deputy Secretary of State


BOARD OF TRUSTEES

The USACC Board of Trustees is a group of Americans and Azerbaijanis interested in promoting friendship, cooperation and commerce between the American people and the people of Azerbaijan. The Board of Trustees offers its recommendations to the USACC Board of Directors on all matters related to the Chambers programs and activities.

Ilham Aliyev
President of Azerbaijan.

Abdullah Akyuz
President, TUSIAD-US Inc.

Graham Allison
Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Sam Brownback (R-KS)
US Senator

Frank Henke
Chairman, American Bank & Trust Company

Richard Moncrief
Chairman, Moncrief Oil International

Hafiz Pashayev
Ambassador of Azerbaijan in the U.S.

Richard Perle
American Enterprize Institute, former Assistant Secretary of Defense

Joseph R. Pitts (R-PA)
US Congressman

John Roberts
Senior Advisor, American International Group

Stephen Robertson
President, Trans Global Projects, Inc.

Nancy Tuomey
Vice President, First Union Bank

Frank Verrastro
Director and Senior Fellow in the CSIS Energy Program

OFFICERS

Legal Counsel
Baker Botts, L.L.P.

Seymour Khalilov - USACC
Executive Director & Secretary

[Sufi Marmot]

4. Yahoo: Riot police break up Azerbaijan protest

Yahoo article. It will be interesting to see whether the opposition ever attains a critical mass big enough to seriously challenge Aliyev Jr., despite the paranoid, repressive stance of his government.

-SM

[MisterP]

6. why would a NED color revolution DEPOSE Aliyev?

he's like the be-all end-all of color revolutions

[daleo]

7. Nobody has come up with a good color scheme yet.

Give the CIA a little time.

[occuserpens]

8. BBC. Azeri police break up mass rally

Azeri police break up mass rally: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4472368.stm

[0007]

9. What's the big deal? Our crime Mafioso is better than some

cheap shit suit outside the states.

Doesn't the media have dog show to write about or something?