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IRAN: Follow the Money (with Foster Gamble)

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Bangkok blast suspects 'targeting Israeli diplomats'

Police parade suspect Mohammad Khazaei at the immigration bureau Thai police paraded suspect
Mohammad Khazaei before the media
 

A group of Iranians detained after
explosions in Thailand's capital Bangkok were intending to target two Israeli
diplomats, Thai police say.

There were no further details of the individual targets, but planning was
said to be at an advanced stage.

Officials have linked Tuesday's Bangkok blasts to attacks on Israeli
diplomats in Georgia and India on Monday.

Israel has accused Tehran of being behind all three attacks. Tehran has
denied any involvement.

Two men are in custody in Bangkok over Tuesday's explosions, a third man was
arrested in Malaysia trying to board a flight to Iran, and a fourth suspect is
still at large, believed by immigration officials to be back in Iran.

"Their targets were individuals, Israeli diplomats, not the Thai people,"
said national police chief Priewpan Damapong.

There had been widespread speculation of a plot aiming at Israelis, but Mr
Priewpan is the first Thai official elaborate on the target.

He said the suspects are likely to be charged with possession of explosive
devices and attempted murder.

The suspects were named as:

The comments by a Thai Police Chief that the target in Bangkok was Israeli
diplomats seems to back up Israel's claim that it is facing a co-ordinated
campaign.

Such targeted killings of people conscious of their security are not always
easy, but still the events in Bangkok show more ambition than capability. What
will worry Israel though is the question of how many teams might have been sent
out with the chance one might be successful, or that those responsible might
redouble their efforts to make up for failures.

Iran has denied it is involved saying allegations are a smear to try and
undermine its relationships with others. Of course Iran believes Israel has
carried out almost identical acts in Tehran killing scientists linked to the
nuclear programme.

The alarm was raised when an explosion ripped the roof
of their house, in central Bangkok.

Mr Sedaghatzadeh and Mr Khazaei managed to flee the house after the
explosion, but Mr Moradi was injured and tried to catch a taxi.

When the taxi refused to stop for him, he threw at least one bomb at it,
according to police.

He was later cornered by police and attempted to throw a bomb at them.
However, he seriously injured himself with the device, and lost both of his
legs.

Four other people were injured in the incident.

The Bangkok blasts came a day after two attacks targeting Israeli diplomats
in India and Georgia.

An Israeli diplomat was injured in the Delhi attack, after a motorcycle rider
attached an explosive device to her car.

Around the same time a bomb beneath an Israeli diplomat's car in Tbilisi,
Georgia, was found and defused.

Thai police said the devices they found were similar to the ones used in
Delhi and Georgia.

And Israeli officials have repeatedly stated that the Iranian regime was
behind all three attacks, in league with Lebanon's Islamist militant group
Hezbollah.

Several suspected members of Hezbollah were arrested last month in Bangkok,
though police have not publicly linked them to the detained Iranians.

Tehran officials have accused Israel of staging the attacks as part of a
"psychological war" aimed at deflecting attention from what they say are Israeli
killings of nuclear scientists in Iran.

"However, he seriously injured himself with the device, and lost both of his
legs."

 

Damn...sounds like a Wetzel I know here.....

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