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Suicide Bomber Kills 2 Guards At South Iran Mosque
[Jerusalem Post] Six others, including three children, injured at mosque near Pakistain border; same mosque was hit in 2010.A jacket wallah killed two guards as he went kaboom!" outside a mosque in a restive southern province of Iran on Friday after being prevented from reaching worshippers inside, Iranian media reported. The bomber set off his boom belt a few hundred meters (yards) outside the Imam Hossein mosque in the city of Chabahar, killing two members of the Basij militia that were on guard, Fars news agency reported. Six others, including three children, sustained injuries in the kaboom, it said. Chabahar is in Sistan-Balochistan  ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... province, near the Pak border. It has a history of unrest, with the mainly Sunni Mohammedan population complaining of discrimination at the hands of Iran's Shi'ite Mohammedan authorities. An attack by two suicide bombers at the same mosque in 2010 killed 39 people including women and kiddies during a religious ceremony. The Sunni rebel group Jundollah, which says it is fighting for better rights for Sunni Mohammedans in Iran, grabbed credit for that attack, which it said was in Dire Revenge™ for the execution of its leader, Abdolmalek Rigi. The group is believed to be based in Pakistain and since 2003 has claimed a number of attacks and kidnappings inside Iranian territory. In its most audacious attack, it targeted a meeting of Revolutionary Guards and tribal figures from Sistan-Balochistan in October 2009, killing six senior commanders and 29 others. Iran says Jundollah has links to al Qaeda and has accused Pakistain, Britannia and the United States of supporting it to stir instability in its southeast. The three countries deny backing Jundollah. Posted by: trailing wife 2012-10-20 |
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