Israel Matzav

Double terror bombing attempts in India, Georgia

A day after the fourth anniversary of the untimely death of Imad Mughniyah - Shem Reshaim Yirkav (may the names of the wicked be obliterated) - two simultaneous bombs were planted outside the Israeli embassies in New Delhi, India and Tbilisi, Georgia. The good news is that the bomb in Tbilisi was neutralized and no one was hurt. In New Delhi, two people were injured, one of them the wife of an Israeli diplomat.

A day after the fourth anniversary of the assassination of Hezbollah’s military commander, two seemingly coordinated attacks were launched on Monday against Israeli embassies overseas.

In the first attack, the wife of an Israeli diplomat was injured when a bomb exploded in her car in New Delhi, India. The woman succeeded in driving to the Israeli embassy where she was evacuated to a nearby hospital.

Local authorities were investigating the possibility that the bomb was planted under the car or alternatively that an assassin on a motorbike attached it to the vehicle as it was driving.

In the second attack, an embassy staffer in Tbilisi, Georgia discovered a bomb underneath his car as he was driving to the embassy Monday morning. The staffer – a local Georgian national – heard something during the drive, pulled over to the side of the road, noticed the bomb and called local authorities. The bomb was dismantled before exploding.

This is from Indian television. Let's go to the videotape.



YNet adds:

Israeli Embassy Spokesman David Goldfarb confirmed that an explosion took out a diplomat's car and that one person was injured, but did not identify the victim.

Foreign Ministry Spokesman Yigal Palmor also would not discuss the identity of the nor the extent of the injuries because it was a security matter.

"We are looking into the incident and cooperation with local security forces is excellent," Palmor said.

Indian police said only that a car was on fire on the street outside the embassy. New Delhi media reported that two people were wounded. Television footage showed a charred minivan with blue diplomatic plates, its rear door apparently blown out.

The Foreign Ministry said that Israeli missions worldwide have been briefed on the event.

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Israeli Ambassador to Georgia Yitzhak Gerber told Ynet that "We don't have all the details yet. The local authorities are looking into it, but so far it doesn’t look too dramatic.

"From what we know now, there was an attempt to place an explosive device on a car belonging to one of our local employees. He noticed it while he was on his way to us, and alerted the authorities. The device was defused."

Gerber added that "these kinds of things are part of the job. It's very unpleasant, but it's always in the back of our mind. Considering that yesterday was the day we bid farewell to Imad Mugniyah this was to be expected."

Thank God it sounds like everyone is going to be alright.

UPDATE 5:01 PM

Israel Radio reports that the wife of the Ministry of Defense's attache in New Delhi was lightly to moderately wounded, and that an embassy driver and two locals were also wounded.

The bomb was attached to the car.

The Prime Minister is blaming Iran and Hezbullah - more on that later.

Labels: Georgia, Hezbullah, Imad Mughniyah, India, Islamic terrorism

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:26 PM