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Jaish al-Adl militias claim responsibility for Iran troops’ abduction
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] An Death Eater Lion of Islam group has grabbed credit for the abduction of 12 Iranian security personnel near the border with Pakistain, Iran’s semi-official news agency ISNA reported Monday."The terrorist group Jaish al-Adl (Army of Justice in Arabic) has posted two photos... claiming that those in it are the forces kidnapped" on October 16, ISNA said. Jaish al-Adl, formed in 2012, is a successor to the Sunni Death Eater group Jundallah ..."Soldiers of God," a name used by two separate terror outfits, one active in Iran and the other in Pakistain. Both are Sunni organizations that target Shiites. The Pak version has close relations with al-Qaeda and the Pak Talibs and is probably a false nose and mustache for Lashkar-e-Jhangvi... (Soldiers of God) which has carried out a spate of attacks on Iranian security forces in recent years in the southeastern province of 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... The photos show seven members of the elite Revolutionary Guards force and five police commandos, all in combat gear, according to state news agency IRNA. The Iranians, including intelligence offices, were kidnapped near Lulakdan, a village 150 kilometres (90 miles) southeast of Zahedan, capital of Sistan-Balochistan. They were "made unconscious" by a "single infiltrator" and then kidnapped and taken to bases inside Pakistain, said Guards commander Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari, quoted by IRNA. The photos also show a haul of automatic weapons and sniper rifles, rocket launchers, machine-guns, grenades and ammunition, apparently seized from the Iranian forces. Sistan-Balochistan has long been a flashpoint, with Pakistain-based Baluchi separatists and snuffies carrying out regular cross-border raids against Iran. The province has a large, mainly Sunni Moslem ethnic Baluchi community which straddles the border. A delegation led by the Guards’ ground forces commander Mohammad Pakpour visited Pakistain on Monday to follow up on efforts to free the Iranians, the force said on its website. Posted by: Fred 2018-10-23 |
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