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| Iran: Update - Sunni Group Claims Responsibility For Persian Bus Boom | |
| 2007-02-14 | |
| Tehran, 14 Feb. (AKI) - A radical Sunni group, Jundallah (Allah's Brigade), has claimed responsibility for a deadly attack Wednesday on a bus of the Revolutionary Guard, the Pasdaran, in southeast Iran, in a statement sent to Adnkronos International (AKI). Unconfirmed reports say 11 people died in the attack in the city of Zahedan. An Iranian government spokesman said police have arrested four men suspected of carrying out the attack. The Revolutionary Guard officials on the bus were reportedly travelling to the Pasdaran military base of Martyr Mirthosseini outside the city. "On Wednesday morning, commander Ahmad Dehmordeh of our movement, detonated a bomb as a bus carrying commanders of the Revolutionary Guards was passing by," the Jundallah statement to AKI said. "With today's action, we have meant to respond to the unjust death sentences inflicted by the regime on political militants." Meanwhile local news agencies, citing government officials, said four people have been arrested over the attack. "The four arrested are not Iranian citizens," the semi-official Fars news agency reported. Last week, four security officials were killed in Zahedan in an attack claimed by Jundallah. Zahedan is in the province of Sistan-Baluchistan, close to the border with Pakistan and Afghanistan - an area at the centre of violent clashes between security officials and armed groups. The province has in particular been hit by attacks and kidnappings blamed on the radical Sunni group, which was founded two years ago by Abdolmalek Righi. Jundallah has since its creation claimed responsibility for 20 attacks and kidnappings of many Pasdaran officials. The Iranian government, which has blamed ethnic unrest in the southeast on Britain and the United States, accuses Righi and his militants of being "hired by foreign powers" to carry out attacks, to be funded by the US and to cooperate with Pakistan's intelligence. Additional: Last year, 22 provincial officials were shot in cold blood after their convoy was ambushed while travelling along a remote road. The government blamed the attack on groups backed by the UK and US, whom it has repeatedly accused of trying to stir ethnic unrest in Iran's border provinces. In December 2005, a member of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's security detail was killed in a clash with an armed group during an official visit to the province. Hossein Ali Shahriyari, MP for Zahedan, said insurgents were using Pakistan – a key US ally – as a sanctuary from which to strike Iran and called on the authorities to confront the Islamabad government. "Why doesn't our foreign diplomatic apparatus deal with Pakistan, whose soil has turned into a safe heaven for insurgents?" he asked.
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| Posted by:Hupager Uniger1884 |
| #3 If so, it would not be the first time the Saudi Royal Family used a series of cutouts to perform an operation : reference the Yemeni War in the 1960s. |
| Posted by: Shieldwolf 2007-02-14 20:58 |
| #2 "A message from the Majik Kingdom?" Hmmm. |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2007-02-14 15:56 |
| #1 A message from the Majik Kingdom? |
| Posted by: anonymous2u 2007-02-14 12:48 |