Iran behind Bulgaria airport terror attack
For reasons that it won't say, Israeli officials are quite confident that Iran was behind Wednesday's terror attack in Bulgaria. American officials are also confirming that Iran is the culprit. A senior Israeli official said on Thursday that the Burgas attack was part of an intensive wave of terrorist attacks around the world carried out by two different organizations, the Iranian Quds Force, an elite international operations unit within Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, as well as Hezbollah.Hmmm.
“They work together when necessary, and separately when not necessary,” the official told reporters on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to publicly discuss national security issues.
While the the Burgas attack fit the modus operandi of Hezbollah, the Israeli official said, it was not clear whether the bomber intended to blow himself up or had suffered what the official called a “work accident,” adding: “We will never know.”
The bomber was carrying a fake Michigan driver’s license, but there are no indications that he had any connections to the United States, the American official said, adding that there were no details yet about the bomber — his name, age or nationality. He also declined to describe what specific intelligence — intercepted communications, analysis of the bomber’s body parts and other details — that led analysts to conclude that the suicide bomber belonged to Hezbollah.
“This looks like he was hanging out for a local target, and when this popped up he jumped on it,” the official said, referring to a tour bus carrying Israeli vacationers outside the airport in Burgas.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at a news conference Thursday in Jerusalem that the attack in Burgas was carried out by “Hezbollah, the long arm of Iran.”
Labels: Bulgaria, Iran, Islamic terrorism
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:17 AM
3 Comments:
Unlikely it was Iran because if correctly identified the terrorist in this case was a Sunni.
If the terrorist was correctly identified he was most probably Sunni which seems to rule out Iran (although rarely they've worked together but lately Sunni-Shiite are non too friendly towards each other with sectarian violence in Iraq, Syria, Yemen etc)
It's time to respond in kind. Take from that what you will.
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