His military intervention in Azerbaijan was, according to eyewitness accounts, timed so as to ensure that ethnic conflict was inflamed and then used, first and foremost, as a pretext for eliminating the democratic independence movement.

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Smith and Hickock may have committed the Walker murders, including eyewitness accounts that place the two men near Osprey in the days surrounding the Walker murders, according to Wendy Rose, the sheriff's office spokeswoman.

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