18 Members of Iran's Elite Guards Killed

[Breeze54]

18 Members of Iran's Elite Guards Killed

http://www.pennlive.com/newsflash/international/index.ssf?/base/international-36/1171438027147100.xml&storylist=international

By ALI AKBAR DAREINI (Associated Press Writer)
From Associated Press

February 14, 2007 1:32 AM EST

TEHRAN, Iran -

A bomb explosion killed at least 18 members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards
in southeastern Iran, the state-run news agency reported Wednesday.

A passenger car loaded with explosives stopped in front of their bus near Zahedan,
the capital of Sistan-Baluchestan Province, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported.

"This blind terrorist operation led to the martyrdom of 18," IRNA quoted a Guards commander,
Qasem Rezaei, as saying.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

The explosion occurred around 6:30 a.m. in Ahmadabad district on the outskirts of Zahedan, IRNA said.

The passenger car stopped in the middle of the road, forcing the bus loaded with Guards to stop.
The car's occupants fled on motorbikes seconds before it exploded, IRNA said.

Zahedan and its surroundings, which lie near Iran's borders with Pakistan and Afghanistan,
have been the scene of clashes between police and drug smugglers.

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This has a familiar stench! :grr:

[JCMach1]

1. CIA revenge killing... Remember the helicopter full of brass and spooks?

Seems like it was payback time...

[Breeze54]

2. No...not CIA revenge killing

CIA causing the start of yet another war!!

Remember the CIA "Advisors" *cough* *cough* in Vietnam???

Psyops, anyone?

CIA and Operation Phoenix in Vietnam
http://www.serendipity.li/cia/operation_phoenix.htm

CIA assassination squads, reconnaissance units,
Made official June 68, Phoenix was intensification of ci ops and involved
"mass imprisonment, torture and assassination."

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The CIA in Vietnam: Transforming Reality
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA/Reds_Ghosts_Vietnam_DD.html

p128

snip-->
"The American people were not aware, and neither, I am sure, were my CIA briefers in Saigon,
of the extent of CIA covert operations in Vietnam beginning as early as 1954.
Only later did this tragic history come out, largely through the Pentagon Papers." <--snip

[sam sarrha]

7. remember the Iranian air liner full of Women and Children we shot down..??

:cry:

[JCMach1]

8. I haven't forgotten-- the Gulf is a relatively small place

I have flown over Iranian airspace MANY times.

[sanskritwarrior]

11. What helicopter full

of brass and spooks??

There was one with some command elements of a COSCOM, not exactly mission critical people......And there were no spooks on that flight, so what flight are you referring to?

[sam sarrha]

3. sounds like the drug lords didnt like the cut they demanded..

[flyarm]

6. dupe self delete

[flyarm]

4. reminds me of Syriana.....cia for sure!! n/t

[lala_rawraw]

10. i don't think so...

i think this administration distrusts the cia. i suspect mek

[Emit]

12. Or a Baluchi group

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=206283&mesg_id=213115

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=206283&mesg_id=212651

[flyarm]

5. i keep getting weird message..dupe self delete( will try again!)

[Breeze54]

9. I admire your persistance!!

:rofl:

Must be a bug in the system!! ;)