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| Iranian bomber blows off his legs in Bangkok as grenade he hurled at police bounces off tree and explodes at his feet |
| 2022-07-31 |
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Moved to Page 2: WoT: Background because it is, as Penguin of the Desert points out in comments, from 2012. Also Southeast Asia because that’s where it happened. Update at 5:30 p.m. EDT: We had two reports of this story on the day it happened, here and here, and no doubt more on the days that followed.
Moradi, who was taken to hospital, injured four people in the blasts which come the day after Israeli diplomats were targeted in simultaneous car bombings, also believed to have been carried out by Iranians. It is not yet known if yesterday's and today's attacks are linked - but Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak said the Bangkok violence 'proves once again that Iran and its proxies continue to perpetrate terror'. And public security minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch told Israel Radio: 'We know who carried out the terror attacks, we know who sent them, and Israel will settle the score with them.' More explosives were found at Moradi's house, in the Ekamai area of central Bangkok, which police say he had been renting with two others. He is believed to have arrived in Bangkok, from the southern Thai resort of Phuket, on February 8. Police said security forces at Bangkok's international airport detained a second Iranian later today. Mohummad Hazaei, one of the men in the house where the explosives first went off, was trying to board a flight for Malaysia. They said a third Iranian - believed wounded in that initial explosion - was also on the run. Thailand has rarely been a target for foreign terrorists, although a domestic Muslim insurgency in the country's south has involved bombings of civilian targets. Israel and the U.S. warned their citizens to be alert in the capital, but Thai authorities said the country appeared to have been a staging ground but not the target of any attack. It comes the day after Israeli diplomats were targeted in simultaneous bomb plots which were also blamed on Iran. It is not known whether the attacks are linked. A bomb attached magnetically to a car in the Indian capital New Delhi exploded and injured the wife of an Israeli official and two bystanders. Officials in Georgia said an explosive device was attached to the bottom of a diplomat’s car in the capital Tbilisi, but was found and defused before it detonated. Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu said Iran was behind both incidents, adding that the Islamic republic's Lebanese ally Hezbollah - which battled Israel in a month-long war in 2006 - could have been involved too. Last month, a Lebanese-Swedish man with alleged links to Hezbollah militants was detained by Thai police. He led authorities to a warehouse filled with more than 4,000kilos of urea fertiliser and several gallons of liquid ammonium nitrate. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #7 Frank G: Did he get his legs back? Yup! All 144 of 'em! |
| Posted by: Anomalous Sources 2022-07-31 22:03 |
| #6 This triggered a memory of a Police Academy class on the Radical Weather Underground, with crime scene photos from an explosion at a NYC Brownstone basement. The bomb-maker was walking between two rooms with the device cradled against his chest when he must have hit the doorframe causing the denotation. The blast cleanly decapitated him and the head ended right-side up virtually undamaged above the neck against the wall, the expression one of obvious, momentary puzzlement. |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2022-07-31 12:27 |
| #5 #3 - Did he get his legs back? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2022-07-31 12:03 |
| #4 Aww shucks. But so what. It's like a fine wine, flavoured with moslem tears. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2022-07-31 11:32 |
| #3 UPDATED: 13:31 EDT, 14 February 2012 The article is ten years old. |
| Posted by: Penguin of the Desert 2022-07-31 10:08 |
| #2 From the articles comments - no need to go to court, he has no leg to stand on. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-07-31 08:47 |
| #1 |
| Posted by: Bobby 2022-07-31 08:38 |