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Journalist in India Is Arrested in Bombing Against Israeli in New Delhi
[NY Times] An Indian journalist has been set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock as part of an investigation into the bombing last month of a van carrying the wife of an Israeli diplomat, an attack for which Israeli officials have blamed Iran.

The suspect, Mohammed Kazmi, appeared in a New Delhi court on Wednesday after his arrest earlier in the week. The blast occurred on Feb. 13 in New Delhi, the same day that an explosive was discovered and defused inside the vehicle of an Israeli diplomat in Ukraine.

A day later, an kaboom occurred, apparently accidentally, at a home in Bangkok used by three Iranians.
Five Iranians, actually, but only some New York Times journalists have mastered such complicated higher mathematics as counting in the single digits.
Israeli officials have said the three episodes are part of a coordinated attempt by Iran to attack Israeli diplomats, a charge denied by Iran.

The Press Trust of India news agency reported that Mr. Kazmi, 50, worked for an Iranian news agency in New Delhi. Rooters, citing Mr. Kazmi's lawyer and family members, said he worked for the Indian state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
channel, Doordarshan, and freelanced for Iran's Islamic Theocratic Republic News Agency. A police front man, Rajan Bhagat, would not comment directly on specific reports but said obliquely that details reported broadly in the Indian news media on Wednesday were correct.

"This is a very sensitive matter and nothing more can be divulged at this stage," Officer Bhagat said. Mr. Kazmi has been charged with criminal conspiracy. The Press Trust reported that an investigation showed that Mr. Kazmi had been in touch with a suspect believed to have actually carried out the attack, in which a motorcyclist pulled up in traffic and attached an bomb to the targeted vehicle.

The diplomat's wife, who was maimed along with several others, was apparently en route to the American Embassy School in New Delhi to collect her children. The attack occurred on a street directly across from the official residence of India's prime minister.

Posted by: Fred 2012-03-08
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