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Mosby

(16,318 posts)
Sat Jul 21, 2012, 02:11 PM Jul 2012

Bulgarians fear Hezbollah cell that orchestrated bombing has fled, possibly to Turkey

Bulgarian authorities have established that a Hezbollah terror cell orchestrated last Wednesday’s bombing on a bus at Burgas airport in which five Israelis and the Bulgarian bus driver were killed, Israel’s Channel 2 news reported on Saturday night.

There is a concern that members of the cell have fled Bulgaria, possibly overland to Turkey.

The authorities distributed an artist’s sketch on Friday of a man they believed had helped the bomber, but they now believe the man in the sketch may have been the bomber himself, the report added. The sketch has been widely distributed in Burgas, including at resort hotels.

Bulgaria’s Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov said on Saturday “there may have been a second man” directly involved in the bombing. “We have not ruled that out.”

With assistance from Israeli Mossad and Shin Bet teams, and other intelligence agencies, the Bulgarians were reported to be analyzing remnants of the bomb — a homemade device comprising 3 kg. of TNT — in order to determine its origin.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/bulgarians-fear-hezbollah-cell-that-orchestrated-bombing-has-fled-possibly-to-turkey/

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Bulgarians fear Hezbollah cell that orchestrated bombing has fled, possibly to Turkey (Original Post) Mosby Jul 2012 OP
So, they still haven't IDed the bomber. How can they be so sure there were others? leveymg Jul 2012 #1
this just gets stranger and stranger azurnoir Jul 2012 #2

leveymg

(36,418 posts)
1. So, they still haven't IDed the bomber. How can they be so sure there were others?
Sat Jul 21, 2012, 02:15 PM
Jul 2012

They don't know who the guy actually is, and won't be able to ID him by forensics if he was never fingerprinted or DNA sampled. The explosives were plain old TNT with a "home-made" fuse device. No help there. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2012/07/20127215815186999.html

Supposition piled upon supposition.

azurnoir

(45,850 posts)
2. this just gets stranger and stranger
Sat Jul 21, 2012, 03:06 PM
Jul 2012

so we're now supposed to believe Turkey may be harboring a maybe member of Hezbollah who according to your article is of Dutch/Iranian parentage? Why because Turkey is such good friends with Iran?

but its nice to see Times of Israel being used again, I guess a solid ProIsrael source is permissible even though it links being Gay to being a sexual deviant, well when its a Palestinian anyway

But make no mistake. Yasser Arafat was a murderous, genocidal, diabolical, duplicitous sexual deviant who died at the age of 75. He was despised by Arab and Israeli alike. Syria’s Hafez Assad tried to jail him. King Hussein of Jordan once said of Arafat, “He never came to a bridge he didn’t double-cross.” And Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak considered him a cur.
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Arafat’s sexual proclivities have been an open secret for years. The former head of Rumanian intelligence, Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa , disclosed in his book “Red Horizons,” that one of his officers reported, “the ‘Fedayee’ [Arafat’s code name] is in his bedroom making love to his bodyguard. The one I knew was his latest lover. He’s playing tiger again. The officer monitoring his microphones connected me live with the bedroom, and the squawling almost broke my eardrums. Arafat was roaring like a tiger, and his lover yelping like a hyena.


http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/for-the-palestinians-sake-its-time-to-kill-off-arafat/
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