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Iran Claims Broke Up Islamic State Bombing Plot Targeting Ashoura
[AnNahar] Iran broke up an Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... plan to bomb commemorations marking the Shiite religious mourning period of Ashoura, state media reported, the latest alleged bad boy plot to target the country. Iran's official IRNA news agency quoted Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi as saying several foreign nationals were detained with some 100 kilograms (220 pounds) of explosives. State television also reported the arrests. Alavi said late Wednesday the suspects planned to attack Ashoura events in Iran's southern Fars province. Ashoura marks the death of Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, at the Battle of Karbala in present-day Iraq in the 7th century. Alavi referred to the suspects as "takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... terrorists," a term used by Iranian officials to describe bad boy Sunni Moslem fundamentalists like the Islamic State group. "Intelligence Ministry agents, with the cooperation of other security forces, succeeded to defuse one of the anti-security plots of the 'takfiri' terrorist groups and prevent an inhuman crime in the ceremonies," he said. There was no other information immediately released, though the arrest of foreigners on such charges is rare. Iran has helped Shiite militias fighting against the Islamic State group in Iraq, while also supporting embattled Syrian  Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... Alavi blamed Iran's foreign "enemies" for helping the Ashoura bombing suspects, without elaborating. Iran in recent months has announced an increasing number of thwarted bad boy attacks. In June, Iran said it broke up one of the "biggest terrorist plots" ever on its soil by Sunni gunnies planning bombings in Tehran and elsewhere during the holy Moslem fasting month of Ramadan. Iran increasingly has warned of possible bad boy assaults targeting the country, which hasn't seen large-scale attacks since the 1980s. Recently though, Iran has faced increased attacks from Kurdish separatists. Arabs in its southern, oil-rich region and Baluch murderous Moslems also launch occasional attacks. Posted by: trailing wife 2016-10-14 |
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