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Posted on 04/13/2008 10:36:54 AM PDT by nuconvert
Cause of Deadly Iranian Mosque Blast Still Unclear
By VOA News
13 April 2008
Iranian officials say investigators have not yet found the cause of a mosque explosion that killed at least 12 people and wounded 200 others.
Some officials are calling Saturday's blast in southern Iran an accident, while others are refusing to rule out a bomb attack.
The explosion happened in the men's section of a crowded mosque in Shiraz while a prominent cleric was delivering a sermon.
Provincial police chief General Ali Moayyedi said Sunday that the blast may have been caused by negligence. He said explosives were left at the mosque from a recent exhibition commemorating the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s.
Iranian media quote other officials as saying investigators are not ruling out the possibility of a terrorist attack.
The mosque's Shi'ite cleric had been preaching against a radical form of Sunni Islam called Wahhabism, which is practiced mostly in Saudi Arabia. The cleric also spoke out against the Bahai faith, which is banned in Iran.
Deadly bomb attacks in Iran have been rare in recent years. The last major attack was in February 2007, when Sunni militants set off a bomb that killed 11 Iranian Revolutionary Guards in the southeastern city of Zahedan
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http://plateauofiran.wordpress.com/2008/04/13/bomb-explosion-in-shiraz-whos-done-it/
These are eyewitness accounts. A homemade bomb in a samsonite briefcase is mentioned.
” He said explosives were left at the mosque from a recent exhibition commemorating the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s.”
Okay. They’re stoopid! But I can’t believe they’re that stoopid!
Thanks for the link.
“A homemade bomb in a samsonite briefcase is mentioned.”
Possibly. Or I think a suicide bomber. Because there is very little if any structural damage to the building, that I have seen.
“He said explosives were left at the mosque from a recent exhibition commemorating the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s.””
Yup, they do that
An Iranian police officer and other people look through debris at the scene of a bomb explosion in a mosque on Saturday April 12 2008 , in Shiraz some 700 kms (420 miles) south of Tehran. Iran's official news agency says that police believe an explosion that ripped through a packed mosque in the city of Shiraz was not intentionally set. The casualties in Saturday's blast had risen to 11 people dead and 191 wounded by Sunday. (AP photo)
Only in Iran would leaving explosives in a house of worship after a demonstration to commemorate a war be viewed as a reasonable explanation for an explosion.
Some religions have holy water, others incense or flowers for the alter, Muslims have holy explosives. Makes sense to me.
Just a guess, maybe it has something to do with islame!
Cerially! The killemallah religone of satan strikes again.
What part of "every ambush" are we having trouble understanding today???
Sura 9:5 of the “Koranus,” “wherever you find them, and take them captives and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush.”
They left munitions in a Mosque? LMAO!
Talk about the Religion of Peace, eh?
Check this out
http://www.youpoke.com/video/1uwOL4rB-go/jeff-dunham-achmed-the-dead-terrorist.html
allah’s at the bar
peanuts be upon him
Can you imagine weapons being found in a Church here, what the MSM would do with that story. But it’s only Moslems here so get on with your life America.
Can you see?
This is Iran’s ‘Oklahoma City’.
So far, the stories are almost identical.
Now they claim there was only one ‘bomb’, and the other explosives were ‘on display’ or ‘in custody’.
This, as an explanation for the multiple explosions.
Isn’t that the same thing we heard about OK CITY?
THe only difference is that in Iran, JOHN DOE #2 is an anglo-saxon, while the sacrificial lamb is a local ‘rebel’ tribe leader.
No, because I can't imagine anyone in LE having the 'nads to search one.
Yes.
Pretty much everything after the word MOSQUE could be removed from the sentence.
Arms bazaar as a fund raiser? Okaaaaay.....
I wonder if there will be copy-cat bombings of mosques now.
I’m betting they would search a Church before a Mosque!
“Can you imagine weapons being found in a Church here, what the MSM would do with that story. “
But... we don’t have to imagine... do we?
And their media is distorting the story to help the local governmental/military maintain control of the masses.
Just like ours does.
The true enemy doesn’t care about skin color.
Doesn’t care about the style of uniform.
Sees money as merely a means to power, as a commodity to be bought and sold.
It’s Evil, and it’s just closer to the surface, in the Middle East.
We clearly have similar events here in the US.
“Arms bazaar as a fund raiser?”
It’s not like that wouldn’t pay off.
It sure looks like at least some factions in the theocracy want this to be an accident. My guess is that they don’t want it known that there are militant elements in Iran opposed to the regime.
This is not the first terrorist incident in Iran. There have been 2-3 other incidents mentioned in the news over the last 18 months or so. I seem to remember an armed attack by want Iran called “bandits” near the Pak border and a bombing incident of some sort in the Iranian Kurd region.
That, and Shiraz brings in a lot of tourist dollars.
Well, don’t forget that the Arthurian Brits had the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.
I don’t believe them. They’re insisting a little too quickly that it was an accident.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55cfFJ41838&feature=related
It looks to me like many of the injuries may have occurred after the blast as people were running to get out.
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