"Suspect everyone. Trust no one. Big Mullah is watching you! Grrrrrrrr."
Posted on 04/12/2008 12:03:51 PM PDT by maquiladora
TEHRAN --A bomb blast in a mosque in southern Iran on Saturday killed at least eight Iranians in southern Fars province and injured more than 50 people, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
"The death toll is expected to rise above eight because some of the injured people are in a critical condition," Fars said, without giving a source.
"During the speech of a cleric in the Shohada mosque in Shiraz city, a bomb blast killed several people," Fars quoted an unnamed source as saying.
Earlier, state television said the blast happened in central Iran, without giving details.
Reuters © 2008
a shahada class gone awry, no doubt!
Have you seen The Kingdom? One of the characters (an ex-terrorist) says “Every bomb-maker at some point gets bitten by his own work.” LOL
UPDATED FACTS on Shiraz explosion
http://noiri.blogspot.com/2008/04/explosion-in-shiraz-iran-mosque.html
It’s just hard to know what actually happened,
[OVER 50 DEAD and OVER 200 wounded.] !
Thanks FARS! Interesting to see what more we learn.
I’m not criticizing Bahai at all. I just noted the the earliest (within hours) reports mentioned Bahai, and I hadn’t heard of it.
Thank you for the background. Bump.
It's an oldie.....;))
Thanks for the ping!
Thanks for the ping
Those damn Israelis again LOL!
“The mosque is the site of a weekly speech about extremist Wahabi beliefs and the outlawed Bahai faith.”
Was Bahai outlawed by the Wahabis? One interesting thing that became evident in the recent Petreous report is that both Shia and Sunni of moderate, secular oriented political views, are getting very tired of extremists, even of their own group. If this continues to develop it could be the salvation of the Iraq situation. Looks like it may be happening in Iran too.
This linked article seems to indicate that officials are downplaying the idea of sabotage, indicating that the blast might have been caused by left over munitions poorly stored. On the other hand it states that the weekly meetings were to discuss “misguided groups” like the Wahabis and Bahais. My guess, some misguided extremist Wahabis don’t like being the object of such attentions.
Make your time..
.. Or premature jihadulation, secondary to their electile dysfunction..
They might’ve lit a fatwa..
The problem with the Bahai is they are just too darn moderate for a place like Iran.
We could speculate that what happened here is the same thing that happened to Imad Mugniyah, senior terrorist of Hezbollah, in the supposed car bombing in Damascus.
An orbiting laser-weapons system, courtesy of the USA and/or Israel...no muss no fuss.
It's the ONLY kind of power that will contain the current situation with Iran.
> the blast might have been caused by left over munitions
> poorly stored.
Confimring our suspicions, by the way, that “Mosque” is Moslem-speak for “Arsenal”.
"Suspect everyone. Trust no one. Big Mullah is watching you! Grrrrrrrr."
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