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posted by Subrosa at Monday, October 17, 2005

Iran accuses Britain of bombing

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced on Sunday that it believes Britain to be the most likely suspect behind Saturday’s bombing in Iran which killed five and wounded more than one hundred.

"We are very suspicious about the role of British forces in perpetrating such terrorist acts,"

He added that he viewed the presence of British troops along the Iran-Iraq border as the main reason behind unrest there.

Britain is suspected by some in Iran to be behind other such incidents in Khuzestan earlier this year, though Britain has officially denied any involvement in the bombings.

“We reject these allegations," a statement of the British embassy in Tehran said. “Any linkage between the British government and these terrorist outrages is without foundation," it added.

The bombing, which occurred in the southern Iranian town of Ahvaz, is thought to be caused by the detonation of two handmade bombs planted in garbage bins.
Ahvaz is near the Iraqi border, where British troops are stationed.

Some, including General Mohammad Hejazi, commander of the Islamic militant group of Basij, implied that Britain was attempting to cast an exaggerated image of unrest in the Iran.

posted by Subrosa at Monday, October 17, 2005

Israel bans Palestinian movement

Israel on Monday banned the movement of private Palestinian vehicles from traveling along West Bank roads, forcing all Palestinians to use public transportation or other means to travel. The ban was reportedly imposed to prevent attacks similar to that which occured yesterday when Palestinian fighters killed three Israeli settlers in the Gush Etzion region of the West Bank.

posted by Subrosa at Monday, October 17, 2005

70 die in US aerial attack in Iraq

Nearly 70 Iraqi resistance fighters were killed in aerial bombardments by US jet fighters on Sunday near the town of Ramadi in western Iraq, a US military statement reported.

The report said that some 20 men were killed by a US precision-guided bomb when they supposedly attempted to lay a roadside bomb east of Ramadi. Another 50 were killed in and around the city by an assortment of US aircraft attacks, including jet fighters and helicopters.

US sources stated that there were no civilian casualties as a result of the incident, although various other reports that I have read suggest otherwise.

posted by Subrosa at Monday, October 17, 2005

UK troops killed by IRA bombs

Eight British soldiers recently killed in Iraq were victims of bombs created by UK security services and later first used by the IRA in their armed struggle in Northern Ireland.

The report in the weekly Independent on Sunday contradicts the British government claims that tried to put the blame on Iran's Revolutionary Guards for making the devices.

It comes after IRNA reported on Saturday that British commanders on the ground in Basra dismissed the allegations against Iran amid suggestions that they had been politically motivated.

In its front-page story, the Independent on Sunday said the bombs and the firing devices used to kill the UK soldiers were "initially created by British security services as part of a counter-terrorism strategy at the height of the Northern Ireland conflict in 1990s." "The bombs were developed by the IRA using technology passed on by the security services in a botched "sting" operation more than a decade ago," it said, quoting security sources.

The bombs were said to include trigger using a three-way device, combining a command wire, a radio signal and an infra-red beam, which was "a technique perfected by the IRA."
"The technology reached the Middle East through the IRA's co- operation with Palestinian groups. In turn, some of these groups used to be sponsored by Saddam Hussein and his Baath party," a former British agent told the paper.

"There is no doubt in my mind that the technology used to kill our troops in Basra is the same British technology from a decade ago," the former agent said.

"Unfortunately, no one could see back then that this technology would be used to kill British soldiers thousands of miles away in a different war," the source added.

posted by Subrosa at Monday, October 17, 2005


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