Posted on 06/21/2008 8:38:15 PM PDT by forkinsocket
TEHRAN, June 20 -- An armed Sunni group said Friday that it had executed two Iranian policemen, and it threatened to kill 14 others abducted a week ago in an area near the border with Pakistan.
Iranian authorities did not immediately react to a videotape purporting to show the killings, part of which was aired Friday by the al-Arabiya satellite channel, based in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. Iran has accused the United States of assisting the group, known as Jundallah, or God's Brigade.
In 2007, ABC News quoted U.S. and Pakistani intelligence officials as saying that Jundallah members have been "encouraged and advised" by American officials since 2005. A CIA spokesman told ABC that the United States provides no funding to Jundallah.
In the years since the U.S.-led invasion of neighboring Iraq, Iran has experienced increased unrest in border areas where minorities live. Iran is an overwhelmingly Shiite country in which Persians are the dominant ethnic group.
Militant organizations have claimed responsibility for bombings in a southwestern province where many Iranian Arabs live. A Kurdish separatist group based in northern Iraq has attacked Iranian security personnel in Iran's Kurdish areas, killing hundreds.
The groups say Iran's government mistreats and discriminates against minorities, charges that authorities deny.
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Koran = kill, kill, kill. Without the letting of blood, Islam couldn’t exist. Animals.
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