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To: Fennie
The BBC has some good background on this story, including this:

“Sistan Baluchistan, which borders both Afghanistan and Pakistan, has been the scene of frequent clashes in recent years between Iranian security forces and drug smugglers and Sunni rebel groups.

In October, Jaish al-Adl said it was behind the killing of 14 Iranian border guards and the capture of three others in Sistan Baluchistan.

The authorities in the provincial capital, Zahedan, responded by hanging 16 people they claimed were “linked to groups hostile to the regime”.

In November, Jaish al-Adl shot dead a local prosecutor and his driver. The next month, a bomb blast killed three Revolutionary Guards.”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-26229217

Sounds like a rough neighborhood.

35 posted on 02/17/2014 10:01:36 AM PST by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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To: mojito

Sounds like our Mexican Border.


48 posted on 02/17/2014 6:07:16 PM PST by caww
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