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| Fuel truck crash kills 13 in Iran |
| 2007-07-11 |
| An explosion in southeast Iran killed 13 people when trucks smuggling gasoline crashed on Tuesday, a police official was quoted by the official IRNA news agency as saying. Police General Salah Asgarpour said the accident occurred when a truck carrying smuggled gasoline lost control and ploughed into three other trucks also carrying smuggled material, including gasoline and fabrics. “There was a fireball in the place of the accident in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan,” Asgarpour said. Three people were injured, he added. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 last week there was a story about several fuel trucks being hijacked in Iraq; wonder if any of these explosions this past couple of days are those (or similiar) stolen trucks? |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2007-07-11 14:22 |
| #3 Previous Rantburg story stated these gasoline smugglers drive by night with no headlights on. The crash was probably due to a lack of directed EM beams, which works as well. Plausible deniability, you know. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-07-11 09:18 |
| #2 My thoughts exactly, 3dc. But seriously, I wonder if it actually would be possible to develop a device that would interfere with a truck engine; some kind of directed EM beam that would cause mis-fires or something. Pick an appropriately bad section of Iranian road, wait for a likely target, and distract the driver with a balky engine - and thus balky air brakes. Bingo, crash and fireball. Or maybe even some airborne high-beams (night) or shiney mirrors (day) in his eyes as he approaches that mountain curve with no guard rail? Blame it on UFOs. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2007-07-11 07:52 |
| #1 Must have been due to those robot squirrels or maybe the muslim UFOs? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2007-07-11 01:24 |