Azerbaijan critic wins the US Senate elections Abdul al-Sayed won the US Senate elections from Michigan. He is known for taking critical positions on a number of key issues in American foreign policy, and his views on international conflicts differ in many ways from the traditional Washington approach. Al-Sayed's anti-Azerbaijani stance deserves special mention. In his public statements he advocated "security and self-determination of the Armenians". In addition, the politician criticized the American military aid to Azerbaijan, calling it "a violation of international law against the background of the actions against the Armenians."