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| Three Iranian cops recovered in Pakistan |
| 2007-03-27 |
| Pakistani officials have recovered three Iranian policemen who were kidnapped by rebels and handed them back to authorities in Iran, while a fourth is believed to have been killed, officials said Monday. The four policemen were abducted on February 27 after a deadly clash in Iran’s sensitive southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan and taken towards the Pakistani border, prompting complaints from Tehran. A videotape attributed to the Jund Allah (Soldiers of God), a Muslim militant group, and aired on Al-Arabiya television on March 8 purportedly showed the men on their knees, while two masked gunmen stood behind them. “Pakistani security agencies recovered the three Iranian officials in Buleda town on Friday and handed them to Iranian authorities,” a Pakistani security official said. “The security forces raided a hideout after a tip-off and we found the three policemen there with their hands and feet tied,” the official added on condition of anonymity. “They said their colleague had been killed several days earlier, but they didn’t know where the body was.” Officials had no details about the fate of the policemen’s abductors. Al-Arabiya said the kidnappers claimed in the tape that the hostages were an officer and three soldiers with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards. A separate audiotape said the group were not linked to Al-Qaeda, the Taliban or the US intelligence. The abductions came weeks after 13 Iranian Revolutionary Guards were killed by a car bomb in Zahedan. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Stwangez, and JAPAN reports no RUSSIANS have yet been found after their recent quakeys. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-03-27 03:13 |