{"id":3225,"date":"2012-02-14T16:12:58","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T21:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/W3\/?p=3225"},"modified":"2012-02-14T16:12:58","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T21:12:58","slug":"iranian-bomber-detonates-and-blows-his-legs-off-in-terror-attack-bangkokthailand-graphic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/iranian-bomber-detonates-and-blows-his-legs-off-in-terror-attack-bangkokthailand-graphic\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian bomber detonates and blows his legs off in terror attack (Bangkok,Thailand) Graphic"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(CNN) — Israel’s defense minister blamed Iran for a
\nseries of bombings in the Thai capital of Bangkok Tuesday, a day after\u00a0
\nattacks against the country’s diplomats in India and Georgia.<\/p>\n

“The attempted terror attack in Thailand proves once again that Iran
\nand its proxies continue to operate in the ways of terror and the latest
\nattacks are an example of that,” said Defense Minister Ehud Barak, who
\nissued the statement from Singapore, where he is currently traveling. “Iran and Hezbollah are unrelenting terror elements endangering the
\nstability of the region, and endangering the stability of the world,”
\nBarak added. Two Iranians are now in custody in Thailand and another person is at
\nlarge, the government said. Five people were injured, authorities said.<\/p>\n

The first bomb went off in a rental house, believed to be leased by
\nthree foreigners, according to Thai Police Maj. Gen. Pisit Pisutthisak. The three fled after the blast. Two of the men left the scene, he
\nsaid. The third man detonated two more bombs — one when a taxi driver
\nrefused to give him a ride, and another when he tried to throw a bomb at
\npolice as they closed on him. The last bomb exploded near the man, blowing off one of his legs,
\nPisit said. He was taken to Chulalongkorn General Hospital for
\ntreatment.Thai government spokeswoman Thitima Chaisaeng said the man in the
\nhospital is Iranian, and that Iranian documents were found on him. Another man arrested at the airport is holding an Iranian passport
\nand is one of the three, Thitima said. He was identified as Mohammad
\nHasai, 42, and was about to leave for Malaysia, she added.<\/p>\n

Thitima told CNN that Thai intelligence agencies don’t think the
\nincident was an act of terror because it was carried out in a sporadic
\nway. But, she said, police think that the men may have been selling
\nweapons and drugs. Israeli Foreign Ministry personnel based overseas have been on alert
\nin recent weeks to the heightened possibility of attacks at Israeli
\nfacilities by Hezbollah, the Lebanese Muslim militant group and
\npolitical party backed by Iran.<\/p>\n

Sunday marked the fourth anniversary of the death of Hezbollah leader
\nImad Mugniyah in a car bombing in Damascus, Syria. Hezbollah holds
\nIsrael responsible for his death and has vowed revenge. Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told CNN that the level of
\nalert in the country had been raised following a security assessment
\nafter the overseas incidents in New Delhi and Tbilisi, the capitals of
\nIndia and Georgia. The alert means patrols will be heightened in and around various
\npublic areas inside Israel, and around Israeli embassies and offices
\nworldwide.<\/p>\n

In the Monday incidents, a device attached to an Israeli Embassy van
\nin New Delhi exploded and injured four people. Another device was found
\non an embassy car in Tbilisi, Georgia, but it was safety detonated. The Israeli government issued a travel advisory this year for
\ncitizens traveling to Thailand after Thai security officials arrested a
\nman in January connected with a planned attack in the country. The police charged the man, Atris Hussein, after finding “initial
\nchemical materials that could produce bombs” in an area just outside
\nBangkok. Police said Hussein, who also holds a Swedish passport, led
\nthem to the location.<\/p>\n

The authorities are accusing Hussein of trying to attack spots in
\nBangkok that are popular with Western tourists and say he is believed to
\nbelong to Hezbollah, the Shiite Muslim group active in Lebanon that the
\nUnited States views as a terrorist organization. Police could not confirm whether the Tuesday incident in Bangkok has
\nany link with the Hezbollah suspect, who is still in Thai police
\ncustody. Officers found the explosive C-4 during the search of the
\nrented house. U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the United
\nStates condemns the incident and offered its condolences to the victims.<\/p>\n

“What I would say is that, with regard to this bombing, the incidents
\nin Delhi, incidents in Georgia, while we will await the results of the
\ninvestigations, these events do come on the heels of other disrupted
\nattacks targeted at Israel and Western interests, including an
\nIranian-sponsored attack in Baku, Azerbaijan, and a Hezbollah-linked
\nattack in Bangkok, Thailand, before this. “So they serve as a reminder that a variety of states and nonstate
\nactors continue to view international terrorism as a legitimate foreign
\npolicy tool, which we consider reprehensible.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday blamed the
\nGeorgia and India incidents on Iran, calling it “the biggest exporter of
\nterror in the world.”<\/p>\n

“The Israeli government and her security organizations are continuing
\nto operate together with local security services against these acts of
\nterror,” Netanyahu said. “We will continue to act in a strong way,
\nsystematically and steadfastly.” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast blamed Israel,
\naccusing it of having bombed its own embassies in New Delhi and Tbilisi
\n“to tarnish Iran’s friendly ties with the host countries,” Iran’s
\nstate-run Islamic Republic News Agency said. “He brushed aside Israeli
\naccusation on Iranian involvement in the bombing and said that Israel
\nperpetrated the terrorist actions to launch psychological warfare
\nagainst Iran,” IRNA reported. “Iran condemns terrorism in strongest term and Iran has been the victim of terrorism,” Mehmanparast said.<\/p>\n

Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said this month that
\nIran would support any nation or group that stands up against Israel. He
\nsaid Iran doesn’t interfere in other nations but has aided such
\nmilitant groups as Hamas and Hezbollah in conflicts with Israel in Gaza
\nand Lebanon. The modus operandi is not new. Last month, a mysterious explosion in
\nIran killed a man identified as a nuclear scientist — the third such
\nkilling in the past two years in which someone placed a bomb on or under
\na scientist’s car. A fourth survived an assassination attempt. The United States and Israel oppose Iran’s nuclear program, although
\nnumerous countries have expressed concern as well. Iran insists its
\nnuclear program is for peaceful, civilian energy purposes.<\/p>\n

Iranian officials, on state-run media, blame Israel and the United States for the killings of the scientists. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has denied “any United States involvement in any kind of act of violence inside Iran.” While Israel generally refuses to comment on accusations and
\nspeculation, Brig. Gen. Yoav Mordechai, a spokesman for the Israel
\nDefense Forces, said on his Facebook page, “I have no idea who targeted
\nthe Iranian scientist but I certainly don’t shed a tear.”<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2012\/02\/14\/world\/asia\/thailand-explosion\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/asia\/thailand\/9081875\/Israel-blames-Iran-for-Bangkok-blasts.html<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-17026007<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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