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| 16 arrested in rioting in northwestern Iran |
| 2002-09-13 |
| Security forces arrested 16 people during rioting that broke out in Mahabad, northwestern Iran, after police killed three people smuggling alcohol, the Ettelaat afternoon newspaper reported Thursday. Smuggling alk, huh? Rioters attacked public places, smashing windows of the city's courthouse and several banks with stones and batons, a security official in the province of western Azerbaijan, Kazemi Nejad, told the paper. Boy, those guys really missed their bootleggers, didn't they? According to press reports Wednesday the head of Iran's judiciary, Ayatollah Mahmud Hashemi-Shahrudi, ordered the immediate arrest of those involved. "Round 'em up quick, before the whole country's soused and lying in the gutters!" Iran's armed opposition movement, the People's Mujahedin, said in a statement received by AFP in Nicosia Wednesday that thousands of people had demonstrated in Mahabad Tuesday to protest the murder of two "traders" by security forces. On Tuesday, huh? Why would the Medes and Persians want to get likkered up on Tuesday? I always wait 'til Saturday nite... It said that, in ensuing clashes, "people in the city challenged the regime's suppressive forces with knives and fire arms and killed five (security) agents." Boy, those are some mean drunks! Usually I just sing a couple verses of "Sweet Adeline" and nod off... It added that the clashes lasted until late Tuesday, with windows being broken at some government offices and several other offices destroyed. Alk smugglers. Yeah. I believe it. It could happen... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 Over one-quarter of Iranian immigrants to the U.S.A. have abandoned Islam for alcohol and other benefits of kafirdom. I guess its catching on back home. |
| Posted by: Allah the Dog Faced God 2002-09-13 18:43:02 |