Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Just the facts, Ma'am

Stately bungalows of Aurangzeb Marg. From bornrich.com.

As you know, yesterday afternoon Tal Yehoshua-Korene, who works along with her husband at the Israeli embassy in New Delhi, was riding up Aurangzeb Road on her way to picking up her children from school when the rear of the car blew up. She was badly injured, with shrapnel in the spine, and is in critical condition; her driver and two other people were hurt as well. A security camera picked up the image of a young man in leather jacket on a motorcycle riding up to the car while it was waiting at a stoplight, just a few seconds before the blast, and "placing something" on the trunk; it's thought that it must have been a bomb mounted [jump]
on a magnet so it would stick when it was dropped there, a technique now familiar from the murder of the physicist Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan in Tehran last month.

At around the same time—it's not as generously reported—a driver for the Israeli embassy in Tbilisi noticed a package stuck to the undercarriage of his car and called the police; there was a grenade inside the package, but the police were able to defuse it. I would like to note that I unreservedly condemn all car bombings and attempted car bombings and similar behavior including that of the person, said to be carrying Iranian travel documents, who blew off his own legs in Bangkok today with grenades he was using to try to murder a Thai taxi driver and a policeman.

Binyamin Netanyahu was quick to denounce the government of Iran as being responsible for the attacks in India and Georgia; 
"Iran and its client Hezbollah," saying that standing behind Monday's attacks is "Iran, the world's greatest exporter of terror."
Foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman added that
"We know exactly who is responsible for the attack and who planned it, and we're not going to take it lying down."
 The government of Iran denounced the attacks as a
false flag operation, executing the attacks itself in order to “stir up sympathy from other countries...." The past record of the Israeli regime clearly demonstrates that its elements have previously carried out such operations to gain popularity and evoke sympathy from other nations, said Deputy Chairman of the Majlis Committee on National Security and Foreign Policy Ismail Kowsari on Tuesday.
Juan Cole offered very cogent reasons for supposing that the Delhi attack could hardly have been carried out by agents of Iran but was more likely perpetrated by an internal Indian group of Sunni Mujahedin and had nothing to do with either the Iranian or the Israeli government—they would have been totally convincing if it weren't for the thing in Georgia, for which he offered no explanation.

I would think the Georgia operation would be extremely easy for Israeli intelligence to carry out—they wouldn't even have to leave the embassy, and assuming the driver was in on the plot, it would be guaranteed not to hurt anybody—but I seriously refuse to consider as a possibility that the Israeli government had any role in the attack on Ms. Yehoshua-Korene and her driver, where people (meaning as it often does with the Israeli government, I'm sorry to put it this way, non-Arabs) were badly hurt and could easily have been killed.

Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak chimed in on the subject of the Thailand explosions to accuse the Iranian government of
exporting terror around the world. "The attempted terror attack in Thailand proves once again that Iran and its proxies continue to operate in the ways of terror and the latest attacks are an example of that," said Barak.
The Thai government  declines to say what was motivating the would-be bomber who blew up first his house, then a taxi, injuring five further people, and finally parts of himself, but, the Guardian goes on to say, the two men they have in custody are both evidently from Iran:
Saeid Moradi, who was seriously injured in the blast, is an Iranian national who is thought to have entered Thailand from South Korea on 8 February at the southern resort town of Phuket. The second suspect has been named as the Iranian national Mohammed Hazaei, 42, who was detained after trying to board a flight to Malaysia, according to local media.
One of Moradi's legs flew into a school playground. I have no theories to propose at the moment. Just stop it, everybody, now, please.









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