Posted on 06/18/2008 6:47:19 PM PDT by nuconvert
Sunni Group Claims Bombing of Iran Mosque
June 19, 2008
Reuters
DUBAI -- A little-known Iranian Sunni dissident group says it was behind a deadly mosque bombing in southern Iran, which Tehran blames on the United States, Britain, and Israel, according to an Internet statement.
"This is the very first operation and the signal to the criminal (Shi'ite) regime of Iran ... to stop its oppression, cruelty and injustice towards ... Sunnis," the Jihadi Movement of the Sunna People of Iran said.
The group said it carried out the attack, which killed 14 people in the southern city of Shiraz in April, to avenge what it said was the execution of two Sunni scholars in Iran's poor southeastern region, home to mostly Sunni ethnic Baluchis.
The English-language statement, posted on a website linked to Sunni Muslim dissidents, could not be independently authenticated.
Iran said last month it arrested the group behind the attack and protested to Washington, saying the U.S. had supported the attackers. It said the group also planned to blow up oil pipelines. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accused the United States, Israel and Britain of being responsible for the blast.
In April when an Arabic website said the Jihadi Movement was behind the attack, Iran said the blast was an accident.
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Make the persians pay with much blood!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LLS
I wish ......
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Posted on 06/19/2008 7:40:52 PM PDT by nuconvert
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033697/posts
many thanks to nuconvert for all three topics:
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Posted on 06/18/2008 6:40:23 PM PDT by nuconvert
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033116/posts
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Antimullah.com posted this aspect as a retaliation to a Sunni mosque bombed by Shias in Mashhad last year. However, could not verify nor discount.
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