Iran links Britain to shooting of 21 officials (also cited US)

[maddezmom]

Iran accused Britain of trying to stir religious and ethnic unrest in its eastern border region yesterday after armed rebels ambushed a party of government officials and killed 21.

Police said the victims, who included security officials, were ordered out of their vehicles and shot in cold blood. The fleet of cars was then set ablaze. Seven others, including the governor of the provincial capital, Zahidan, were wounded in Thursday night's incident, which happened after gunmen, disguised in military uniforms, set up a roadblock to intercept the convoy as it travelled along a remote spot in the south-eastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan.

The convoy had been returning from a function honouring religious martyrs and war dead. Reports suggested that as many as 12 others had been kidnapped by the gunmen, who were said to have fled across the border into Afghanistan or Pakistan after a brief armed exchange with Iranian security forces.

Sistan-Baluchestan, one of Iran's poorest provinces, has a large ethnic Baluchi Sunni population, which has long complained of religious discrimination at the hands of the Shia majority.


more:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,1733776,00.html

[Bhaisahab]

1. Afghan bandits kill 22 in Iran (linked to US and UK agencies)

TEHRAN, March 17: Afghan bandits with links to US and British security services have killed 22 people in Iran and seized an unknown number of others in an ambush that also left a senior official critically wounded, officials said on Friday.

Police said “a group of armed bandits who crossed the Afghanistan border killed 21 people and injured another seven innocent people driving in their vehicles” between the border city of Zabol and Zahedan, the provincial capital of Sistan-Balochistan.

http://www.dawn.com/2006/03/18/top11.htm

[neweurope]

2. Afghan bandits WITH LINKS TO US AND BRITISH SECURITY SERVICES

have killed 22 people in Iran...

I wish the article (AFP) would tell a little more.

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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[951-Riverside]

3. *bump*

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[HuffleClaw]

5. sure sounds like a clumsy provocation don't it?

and i recall some 'terrorist' bombings some time back also linked to the 'coalition'.