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2007-02-14 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by phil_b 2007-02-14 00:45|| || Front Page|| [10 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Hmmm.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-02-14 01:09|| 2007-02-14 01:09|| Front Page Top

#2 I hope this is part of a signal being sent to the black hats.

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2007-02-14 01:44|| 2007-02-14 01:44|| Front Page Top

#3 "eighteen people were killed...."

No kittens, baby ducks, or schoolchildren involved so the mullah media are not yet prepared to blame the US and Israel for this one.

Actually, this is close to the Pak border so Baluchi separatists are a good bet.

I think they need a heaping helping of .50 caliber sniper rifles and maybe some good explosives to help things along.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2007-02-14 01:54|| 2007-02-14 01:54|| Front Page Top

#4 A little more detail:

A bomb explosion killed at least 18 members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards in southeastern Iran, the state-run news agency reported Wednesday. A passenger car loaded with explosives stopped in front of their bus near Zahedan, the capital of Sistan-Baluchestan Province, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

The explosion occurred around 6:30 a.m. in Ahmadabad district on the outskirts of Zahedan, IRNA said. The passenger car stopped in the middle of the road, forcing the bus loaded with Guards to stop. The car's occupants fled on motorbikes seconds before it exploded, IRNA said. Zahedan and its surroundings, which lie near Iran's borders with Pakistan and Afghanistan, have been the scene of clashes between police and drug smugglers.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-02-14 01:54|| 2007-02-14 01:54|| Front Page Top

#5 The Baluchi angle ocurred to me too.

I'm not entirely sold that "drug smugglers" would want to pick a fight with the IRG. Not impossible, of course, but not very realistic either.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-02-14 01:58|| 2007-02-14 01:58|| Front Page Top

#6 There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

OK.

I did it.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2007-02-14 02:18|| 2007-02-14 02:18|| Front Page Top

#7 I blame Bush. Hopefully. And if not Bush, then maybe friends of his. After all, two can play at proxy war.

Posted by SteveS 2007-02-14 02:36|| 2007-02-14 02:36|| Front Page Top

#8 A taste of their own medicine eh .

Posted by MacNails 2007-02-14 03:49|| 2007-02-14 03:49|| Front Page Top

#9 Candygram for Mongo!

Posted by Howard UK 2007-02-14 06:03|| 2007-02-14 06:03|| Front Page Top

#10 Oh shit this made my morning. Shades of "Live and Let Die".

Locals, Delta? Who knows but I'm hoping we did it, hell let the fun begin.

Posted by Icerigger 2007-02-14 06:28|| 2007-02-14 06:28|| Front Page Top

#11 Presumably the dead were Shiite, the bomb deployment squad was Sunni.

Posted by mhw 2007-02-14 08:14|| http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/]">[http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/] 2007-02-14 08:14|| Front Page Top

#12 It's hard to see a downside in this no matter how it happened. Enjoy.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-02-14 08:16|| 2007-02-14 08:16|| Front Page Top

#13 Was it an explosively shaped projectile?

Posted by gromgoru 2007-02-14 08:26|| 2007-02-14 08:26|| Front Page Top

#14 ...Has anyone noticed the best part: Somebody has sufficient access to the IRG to get close enough to their stuff to plant bombs. Iranian security has got to be going NUTS right about now...

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2007-02-14 08:53|| 2007-02-14 08:53|| Front Page Top

#15 I gather that although the IRG is large, the number of "dependables" is so small that they have to be shuttled all over the country to fight fires, which is why transportation 'accidents' often take down batches of them.

Most of the IRG are draftees, who stay in their barracks and are deluged with propaganda.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-02-14 08:59|| 2007-02-14 08:59|| Front Page Top

#16 it seems the Baluchi care if they kill civilians and the iranians don't care what thier weapons are killing, as long as Westerners go with it. Who would of thought the Baluchi would be more civilized then people who have a small girl making thier WMD.

Posted by plainslow 2007-02-14 09:29|| 2007-02-14 09:29|| Front Page Top

#17 A bomb explosion killed at least 18 members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards in southeastern Iran, the state-run news agency reported Wednesday.

MONSTER KILL!

Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2007-02-14 10:15|| 2007-02-14 10:15|| Front Page Top

#18 More info and linkies at Gateway Pundit, including arrests, and a claim of responsibility by Jund Allah, a Baluch separatist group.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-02-14 10:20|| 2007-02-14 10:20|| Front Page Top

#19 Is it too early to break out the popcorn? Or should we jump to the Dom Perignon ASAP?

Posted by BA 2007-02-14 10:21|| 2007-02-14 10:21|| Front Page Top

#20 More and faster please.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-02-14 10:22|| 2007-02-14 10:22|| Front Page Top

#21 I hear Nagin down in New Orleans has some buses he never uses. Chuck Norris might be willing to hand deliver them.

Posted by Icerigger 2007-02-14 13:07|| 2007-02-14 13:07|| Front Page Top

#22 Very good Icerigger. Get them hooked on crawfish that I'm sure now inhabit some of the buses, and we can trade them for oil.

Posted by plainslow 2007-02-14 15:04|| 2007-02-14 15:04|| Front Page Top

#23 thats for ethching on our ship

Posted by sinse 2007-02-14 15:18|| 2007-02-14 15:18|| Front Page Top

#24 Unreal, Mizzou!

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-02-14 15:25|| 2007-02-14 15:25|| Front Page Top

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