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2006-02-06 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Danish Embassy under attack in Tehran right now.
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Posted by 3dc 2006-02-06 17:42|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 a photo somehow related
Posted by 3dc 2006-02-06 17:47||   2006-02-06 17:47|| Front Page Top

#2 LGF had a snippet

/too lazy to go get it
Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious  2006-02-06 17:53||   2006-02-06 17:53|| Front Page Top

#3 
LOL Sea, Muslim burn out eh?

me too.
Posted by RD 2006-02-06 18:14||   2006-02-06 18:14|| Front Page Top

#4 I don't suppose it has crossed the minds of the diplomats out there that Iran now sees embassy personnel as enemy agents, spies, and potential hostages?

If you are "western", you are the enemy. Neutrality does not exist.
Posted by Anonymoose 2006-02-06 18:16||   2006-02-06 18:16|| Front Page Top

#5 Ooo. I wonder if they will attack and destroy the Swedish embassy next? Maybe kill a bunch of diplomats? They probably think that the Swedes are really pussies, all neutral and shit.

That would be highly entertaining. It's been a while since the Swedes have gone ultraviolent on anybody.
Posted by Anonymoose 2006-02-06 18:21||   2006-02-06 18:21|| Front Page Top

#6 I think Denmark has been deliberately target, because, by European standards, they have been taking a strong position on non-assimilating muslim immigrants.
Posted by phil_b">phil_b  2006-02-06 18:57|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]  2006-02-06 18:57|| Front Page Top

#7 Moose, the Iranians made that clear back in, oh, 1979 or so.

Denmark also has been strongly supportive of the WoT and in Iraq, to the point of having had troops there.
Posted by Steve White">Steve White  2006-02-06 19:00||   2006-02-06 19:00|| Front Page Top

#8 all diplomats and furriners: evacuation is the answer or they'll end up chained to nuke facilities as human shields....
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-02-06 19:03||   2006-02-06 19:03|| Front Page Top

#9 David Conway, on the Civitas website, suggests this fracas might have been concocted by Iran:
"...when the UN Security Council gets round to considering what form of sanctions to impose on Iran, guess to whom chairmanship of the Council will have passed. You’ve got it... plucky little Denmark.

Suddenly, the pieces fall into shape. The rumpus suddenly escalated, complete with fabricated offensive cartoons, to so enflame Muslim opinion that Denmark could be intimidated directly through a threatened Muslim boycott of its goods, or indirectly by the EU fearful of a wider boycott, into voting in favour of Iran."
(via Melanie Phillips's Diary)
Posted by Dave D.">Dave D.  2006-02-06 19:21||   2006-02-06 19:21|| Front Page Top

#10 Yeah that's one theory. Another has the Saudis sponsoring this to deflect criticism within the Muslim world of the haaj mess. And, if I might add, the slow progress in building an Iraqi coalition government and the stronger progress in the Afghanistan elections.

I suppose we could throw in the Hamas election (which is overstated, since they collected other candidates into their lists in various districts).

Beats me which one(s) to finger as the source. Byzantine doesn't begin to describe it.
Posted by lotp 2006-02-06 19:28||   2006-02-06 19:28|| Front Page Top

#11 Danska ambassaden stormades
Med stenar och brandbomber gick hundratals demonstranter till attack mot den danska ambassaden i Teheran.

Vid 21-tiden på måndagskvällen fanns omkring 50 demonstranter inne på ambassad-området, uppger den norska tidningen Dagbladets nätupplaga.

Polisen försökte stoppa stormningen med hjälp av tårgas. Det hjälpte inte när omkring 400 demonstranter anföll ambassaden i Irans huvudstad med brandbomber och stenar.

Loosely (very) translated:

The Danish Embassy in Tehran was under attack by hundreds of demonstrators with rocks and fire bombs.

At 9 o'clock Monday night, around 50 demonstrators have (gotten in ???) to the embassy grounds, reports the Norwegian newspaper 'Dagbladet' (Daily News).

Police tried to stop the attack with teargas. That didn't help when almost 400 demonstrators attacked the embassy in Iran's capital with stones and firebombs."

Sorry it sounds redundant but that's (kind of) what it says...Any Stockholm Vikings wanna correct me? Please do...


Posted by JDB 2006-02-06 20:16||   2006-02-06 20:16|| Front Page Top

#12 It does not take much to sum all this up. Islam is an extreme mental illness.
Posted by FeralCat 2006-02-06 20:24||   2006-02-06 20:24|| Front Page Top

#13 Beats me which one(s) to finger as the source. Byzantine doesn't begin to describe it.
Posted by lotp

It's looking a lot like Lewis Carrol to me. Beyond Byzantine>
Posted by Hupomoger Clans9827 2006-02-06 20:30||   2006-02-06 20:30|| Front Page Top

#14 "...when the UN Security Council gets round to considering what form of sanctions to impose on Iran, guess to whom chairmanship of the Council will have passed. You’ve got it... plucky little Denmark.

Suddenly, the pieces fall into shape. The rumpus suddenly escalated, complete with fabricated offensive cartoons, to so enflame Muslim opinion that Denmark could be intimidated directly through a threatened Muslim boycott of its goods, or indirectly by the EU fearful of a wider boycott, into voting in favour of Iran."

This one sure puts things in a new light. I'd bet my bottom dollar that the "additional" cartoons were Islamic fabrications. It is critical to prove this if there is any way to do so.

Should Iran permit the takeover of any foreign embassies, the world had better take notice of such a recurring pattern. However noxious and surreal it is, for Iran, this is their deep game. We really need to collapse this house of cards on their heads.
Posted by Zenster 2006-02-06 21:15||   2006-02-06 21:15|| Front Page Top

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