TV: Bandits Kill Iranian President's Guard

[Scurrilous]

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"Bandits killed a guard of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hours before the leader visited southeastern Iran this week, state-run television reported Saturday.

The broadcast said another guard and a driver were wounded in Thursday's assault on a road 1,240 miles southeast of the capital, Tehran. The guards were making security checks in the area several hours before Ahmadinejad passed in a motorcade, the report said.

The motive for the attack was unclear. Officials could not immediately be reached for comment.

Ahmadinejad provoked an international stir during the three-day trip to the region when he called the Holocaust a "myth" used as a pretext for carving out a Jewish state in the heart of the Muslim world. The interior minister said Friday that Western governments had "misunderstood" the comments.

The president ended his tour to the area Friday."


http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/3532013.html

[greiner3]

1. NOt as stealthy as Entebbe this time;

:yoiks:

[Joanne98]

2. I didn't know Iran had Diebold voting machines.....

[Warren Stupidity]

3. uh "bandits"?

I'm guessing that these were not 'bandits'.


Let the games begin.

[Ian David]

4. Wouldn't blame the Israelis if they knocked him off

Even some of the "moderate" Arba neighbors think he's making them look bad.

[Warren Stupidity]

5. That would be stupid.

The ayatollahs would benefit from just such stupidity. The guy is just a figurehead, Iran is run by the theocracy, the official government is allowed to act only within the parameters they establish. Assasinating this fool would do nothing other than provide yet more justification for increasing the repression of dissent in Iran.

[Ian David]

12. Didn't say it was a good idea. Just that I wouldn't blame them. n/t

[AngryAmish]

13. The Arab neighbors don't like him

Iranians are Persians and they don't like the Arabs either.

[enigma000]

6. Mullahs are getting scared

They know Ahmadinejad is insane. They must be so very, very scared right now. Neither Israel or the US will let him get nukes. So it either:
a) kill Ahmadinejad
b) let Iran get turned into a radioactive crater

I have a bad feeling tens of millions of people are going to die soon, unless the ruling mullags of Iran do something FAST.

[ladjf]

7. Undoubtedly, there are many who would like to see

Ahmadinejad dead. But, Israel and Bush administration people are not among them. Why would they kill the man is doing exactly what they want, which is to promote hostility toward Israel and the U.S.?

More likely, it is the locals who want to shut him up before something very bad happens.

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

8. Israel or U.S. attacks Iran they will wish they hadn't----Iran is NOT Iraq

Some security probably stumbled on the Israeli assasins, got killed, and the assasins hauled ass.

The locals aren't watching CNN or Fox and could care less if their leader "shuts up"-
Those who want Ahmadinejad dead are the Israelis or the U.S.-

The main party interested in Iran is the U.S. Corporations
--and they don't have a chance in hell of getting their greedy little paws on the oil in Iran
And OIL is the true underlying reason for all this political mudslinging about Iran-whose rich oil reserves compare with those of Iraq-

-- !!!They still can't pump any out of Iraq because of the resistance movement (aka insurgents/terrorists).

Iran's not a pushover, not a rollover, not a walk in and take over the place situation.

Iran has an airforce, lots of war toys, and would likely defend theselves fairly well-
And if some country decides not to invade but simply to destroy, and obliterates Iran with a nuke, and it's Israel-->I believe Israel would be swarmed on, ganged up on, and end up pretty much dismantled in the aftermath.-
The U.S. would be history as well if it ever set out to simply destroy a country with a Nuke-no matter what the reason.

and the losses to any conventional invaders would be phenomenal...not to mention, resistance would follow.

[ladjf]

10. Yes. Iran has much more military capability than Iraq.

However, do our leaders have enough sense to know that? Iran even has a submarine or two that can launch missiles from their deck. That could be very dangerous.

[Behind the Aegis]

11. I agree..

...why kill the 'perfect' villain before any action could be taken?

But see, for some, it is much easier to believe that the only real evil politicians are in Israel and the US. Why take into account that there is a genuine dislike of this man in his own country (sounds familiar) and that someone from that country might try to do him harm?

Just as Shrubie declared Iran a member of the "Axis of Evil," the same can be said of some here who see the "Axis of Evil" as the US, the UK, and, of course, Israel.

[sofa king]

9. Looks like a "we can reach you" statement.

By someone. When you can count your friends on the national stage on one hand, the question of who did it is going to require some probability theory.