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| Iran: Blast hits mosque in southeast |
| 2009-02-19 |
| (AKI) - A motorcycle bomber struck a mosque in the southeastern Iranian city of Zahedan on Wednesday, damaging the building but causing no human casualties, semi-official Iranian news agency Fars reported, quoting police. The motorcyclist had apparently detonated his bomb outside the building after being prevented from entering the mosque. Zahedan is the provincial capital of Iran's Sistan-Baluchestan province, which borders Pakistan. Similar bombings have been carried out in the past in Iran's southeastern regions, some of them deadly. Zahedan is a stronghold of Sunni armed insurgent group Jundallah. The group has launched attacks near the Afghan and Pakistani borders and the Iranian authorities have claimed it is linked it to Al-Qaeda. Iran claims armed separatist groups usually carry out bomb attacks in the southeast before fleeing to hideouts in Pakistan. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 Any secondaries? |
| Posted by: Rednek Jim 2009-02-19 20:07 |
| #3 could be a sunni vs shia thing or could be a Baluch vs Parsi thing |
| Posted by: mhw 2009-02-19 07:33 |
| #2 ION IRAN, PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > IRAN HAS DEVELOPED A UNMANNED DRONE CAPABLE OF REACHING ISRAEL [future LR Cruise Missle] ??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-02-19 00:49 |
| #1 Ah, but was the motorcyclist sent by America, Israel, or the squirrels? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-02-19 00:10 |