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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Gunman on Motorcycle Kills Iranian Judge
2005-08-03
A gunman on a motorcycle shot and killed a judge Tuesday in central Tehran and then sped off, a judiciary spokesman said. Judge Masoud Moqadasi handled a case against an investigative reporter jailed in 2000 for reporting that intelligence officials murdered five Iranian dissidents in 1998, judiciary spokesman Jamal Karimirad said.

The journalist Akbar Ganji remains in jail. Iran's Intelligence Ministry later blamed the murders of the dissidents on "rogue agents" in the secret service. As the judge drove away from his office, the gunman sped up to Moqadasi's car on a motorcycle and sprayed it with rifle fire and then fled, Karimirad told The Associated Press. Moqadasi headed the Tehran judiciary complex and specialized in cases of social vice, Karimirad told The Associated Press.
Posted by:Fred

#2  This type of assassination, what used to be common in Iraq, and usually "three men on motorcycles", I've heard referred to as "Larry, Moe, and Curly Joe". That is, as if it was the same three guys who assassinated literally hundreds of Batthists, secret police, and other finks. It does make for a pleasant mental image.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2005-08-03 10:17  

#1  Contrast, in Iraq, people are given the technology and means to secretly report the foreign terrorists and local thugs. The Iraq secruity forces are making progress in reducing the ability of the opponents of the state to act. The Iraq government has the consent of the governed.
In Iran, the government has alienated a good portion of its population and rules through force. How effective will these types of operations become as the information flow is reduced to a minimum for the government. The boys next door are learning. By interfering in Iraq, the Mullahs are showing their own population how to act effectively against themselves. Blowback.
Posted by: Thruper Snesh2876   2005-08-03 09:31  

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