If we can get 30,000 people on the streets the police will find it hard to disperse us."The authorities have authorised the opposition to hold a three-hour rally in Baku, the capital, tomorrow. But such rallies are not open-ended and any attempt to install a permanent presence on Victory Square in the capital, Baku, is likely to spark police violence.Elin Suleymanov, a senior aide to President Ilham Aliyev, whose family has ruled this oil-rich nation for the majority of the past three decades, told The Independent that the authorities would have no choice but to clamp down on violent demonstrations: "If they want to protest then fine but they must do so within the law. Houses in the Westlands estate, north Belfast, as well as the Castlereagh area of east Belfast were searched.. Azerbaijan's pro-democracy opposition has revealed plans to attempt a Ukraine-style orange revolution tomorrow by bringing tens of thousands of protesters on to the streets in a risky but peaceful bid to overturn the results of allegedly rigged parliamentary elections.
News of the planned demonstrations came as international election monitors delivered a damning indictment of Sunday's vote and almost-final results showed that the Azadliq (Freedom) bloc of pro-democracy parties had won just five of the 125 seats. The ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party and an array of mainly pro-government independents looked to have won most of the remainder. A reliable source in the opposition told The Independent that the Azadliq bloc was so shocked by the results and the scale of fraud that it had decided to put what he called "a contingency plan" into action. "We're going for the revolutionary scenario," he said. Andre Shoukri, leader of the Ulster Defence Association in the north of the city, was held when officers swooped on a number of houses. Three other men - at least one of them another senior UDA man - and a woman were also detained. A senior security source confirmed: "This is an extremely significant operation." It is understood that a decision to hold another person under the police's witness protection scheme was linked to today's arrests, which involved officers from the Police Service of Northern Ireland's organised crime branch. "He would say: 'If you put £5,000 in I will double it in six months', and he did."I never saw him as much as look at the sporting pages of a newspaper in all the time I worked with him.
They say the worst criminals are respectable and quiet people and that was certainly true in his case.". A top loyalist paramilitary was arrested today as part of a major police operation in Belfast. He admitted 43 counts of theft and deception and asked for 263 similar offences to be taken into consideration.Jennifer Ellis, who worked for Price's investment company and lost her £120,000 life-savings, said that her trust had been built up gradually. During a four-year fraud, Graham Price, 58, persuaded 84 individuals to invest a total of £3.5m in a bogus property scheme and used the money, together with a further £6.9m stolen from the Halifax bank, to support a lifestyle as a high-rolling gambler, spending £1m on racing tips and buying shares in 13 horses. Price, who will be sentenced today at Swansea Crown Court, was arrested last November after an auditor found an IOU for £7m in the safe of the Halifax counter-service he ran in Gowerton, Swansea. Aged 22, he stabbed John Dickinson, also 22, with a kitchen knife during a fight over Mr Dickinson's friendship with his wife. As a boy, Dyson wanted to travel like his father, who had worked in Saudi Arabia in various jobs, including doorwork "His background explains a lot Dyson hero-worshipped his father," a police source said.. A former bank manager known as "Mr Halifax" fraudulently obtained £10m from his employer and clients and spent the money on luxury cars, racehorses and internet gambling, a court heard.