Iranian Flat Bombing
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Looks like some Iranian terrorists accidentally blew up their flat - then one of them blew his own legs off after the grenade he lobbed at police bounced back at him off a tree 
...feel concerned for the injured bystanders, ...but talk about "getting your own back"
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Israel blames Iran for Bangkok blasts
The (pixelated) body of a man lies on the pavement after having been injured by a bomb in central of Bangkok
Photo: EPA
By Ian MacKinnon in Hua Hin, Thailand
Last Updated: 4:02PM GMT 14/02/2012
Israel's defence minister has accused Iran of being behind a bombing that rocked a crowded residential area of Bangkok on Tuesday.
An Iranian man was critically injured by his own bomb in a series of blasts, raising fears he and two countrymen accomplices had planned an attack just a day after operations against Israeli diplomats in India and Georgia.
Ehud Barak said Tuesday's explosion "proves once again that Iran and its proxies continue to perpetrate terror".
He said that Iran and its Lebanese ally Hizbollah are "unrelenting terror elements endangering the stability of the region and endangering the stability of the world".
"We know who carried out the terror attacks, we know who sent them, and Israel will settle the score with them," he said.
The man blew both his legs off when he tried to escape police by throwing a grenade at pursuing officers, but it bounced off a tree and he was caught by the full force of the blast.
Two other Iranian fled the on foot and one was arrested later at Bangkok’s international Suvarnabhumi airport as he tried to leave the country. Thai intelligence and security forces continued their hunt for the third man.
Four Thais, three men and a woman, were injured in the explosions which took place in a rented house and on a busy road in the south-east of the city shortly after lunchtime.
Thailand’s foreign minister is to ask the Iranian embassy to investigate the identities of the three men to discover what they were doing in the country and whether they had any links to terrorist groups.
Last month Thai police arrested a Swedish-Lebanese man with links to pro-Iran Hizbollah militants following warnings from the US and Israel about a possible terrorist attack in Bangkok.
The man led police to a cache of bomb-making materials, 4,000kgs of urea and several litres of ammonium nitrate, but government officials said they were content with his assurances the material was being transported to a third, unspecified country, and was not planning an attack in Thailand.
Tuesday’s first blast happened at about 2pm in a house off the busy Sukhumvit Soi 71 road that the Iranian men had rented for some months. The explosion blew off part of the roof.
Neighbours saw two of the men fleeing the house, with a third man covered in blood emerging shortly afterwards carrying a black bag.
The first two men disappeared and the injured man attempted to flag down a taxi, but the driver seeing his bloodied condition refused the fare.
Outraged, the man threw a grenade at the taxi damaging the vehicle and injuring the driver.
About 100 metres along the road police who responded to the blasts tried to stop the man but he threw another grenade at officers. It hit a tree and severed his legs, leaving his black bag near a shattered telephone booth.
A bomb disposal expert checks a backpack that was left at the scene by the bomber (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)
Bangkok’s deputy police commissioner Maj Gen Pisit Pisutsak said a passport found in the bag identified the man as Saeid Moradi, 50, an Iranian. He was being treated at Bangkok’s Chulalongkorn Hospital where doctors amputated his other leg.
A second Iranian man suspected of involvement in the blasts, Mohammad Hazaei, 42, was arrested at the airport. He was planning to board an Air Asia flight to the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur.
Thai police said they had found more explosives inside the house where the first explosion occurred and they were now trying to trace his movements, though so far they had only discovered he travelled from the southern holiday island of Phuket on February 8.
On Monday four people were injured when a motorcyclist attached an explosive device to an Israeli diplomatic car in New Delhi. Another device targeting Israeli diplomats in Tiblisi failed to explode. Israel blamed both operations on Iran, which denied involvement.
Britain urged its nationals in Bangkok to exercise caution in the light of the bombs.
...feel concerned for the injured bystanders, ...but talk about "getting your own back"
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Israel blames Iran for Bangkok blasts
The (pixelated) body of a man lies on the pavement after having been injured by a bomb in central of Bangkok
Photo: EPA
By Ian MacKinnon in Hua Hin, Thailand
Last Updated: 4:02PM GMT 14/02/2012
Israel's defence minister has accused Iran of being behind a bombing that rocked a crowded residential area of Bangkok on Tuesday.
An Iranian man was critically injured by his own bomb in a series of blasts, raising fears he and two countrymen accomplices had planned an attack just a day after operations against Israeli diplomats in India and Georgia.
Ehud Barak said Tuesday's explosion "proves once again that Iran and its proxies continue to perpetrate terror".
He said that Iran and its Lebanese ally Hizbollah are "unrelenting terror elements endangering the stability of the region and endangering the stability of the world".
"We know who carried out the terror attacks, we know who sent them, and Israel will settle the score with them," he said.
The man blew both his legs off when he tried to escape police by throwing a grenade at pursuing officers, but it bounced off a tree and he was caught by the full force of the blast.
Two other Iranian fled the on foot and one was arrested later at Bangkok’s international Suvarnabhumi airport as he tried to leave the country. Thai intelligence and security forces continued their hunt for the third man.
Four Thais, three men and a woman, were injured in the explosions which took place in a rented house and on a busy road in the south-east of the city shortly after lunchtime.
Thailand’s foreign minister is to ask the Iranian embassy to investigate the identities of the three men to discover what they were doing in the country and whether they had any links to terrorist groups.
Last month Thai police arrested a Swedish-Lebanese man with links to pro-Iran Hizbollah militants following warnings from the US and Israel about a possible terrorist attack in Bangkok.
The man led police to a cache of bomb-making materials, 4,000kgs of urea and several litres of ammonium nitrate, but government officials said they were content with his assurances the material was being transported to a third, unspecified country, and was not planning an attack in Thailand.
Tuesday’s first blast happened at about 2pm in a house off the busy Sukhumvit Soi 71 road that the Iranian men had rented for some months. The explosion blew off part of the roof.
Neighbours saw two of the men fleeing the house, with a third man covered in blood emerging shortly afterwards carrying a black bag.
The first two men disappeared and the injured man attempted to flag down a taxi, but the driver seeing his bloodied condition refused the fare.
Outraged, the man threw a grenade at the taxi damaging the vehicle and injuring the driver.
About 100 metres along the road police who responded to the blasts tried to stop the man but he threw another grenade at officers. It hit a tree and severed his legs, leaving his black bag near a shattered telephone booth.
A bomb disposal expert checks a backpack that was left at the scene by the bomber (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)
Bangkok’s deputy police commissioner Maj Gen Pisit Pisutsak said a passport found in the bag identified the man as Saeid Moradi, 50, an Iranian. He was being treated at Bangkok’s Chulalongkorn Hospital where doctors amputated his other leg.
A second Iranian man suspected of involvement in the blasts, Mohammad Hazaei, 42, was arrested at the airport. He was planning to board an Air Asia flight to the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur.
Thai police said they had found more explosives inside the house where the first explosion occurred and they were now trying to trace his movements, though so far they had only discovered he travelled from the southern holiday island of Phuket on February 8.
On Monday four people were injured when a motorcyclist attached an explosive device to an Israeli diplomatic car in New Delhi. Another device targeting Israeli diplomats in Tiblisi failed to explode. Israel blamed both operations on Iran, which denied involvement.
Britain urged its nationals in Bangkok to exercise caution in the light of the bombs.
alfaman said:
Looks like some Iranian terrorists accidentally blew up their flat - then one of them blew his own legs off after the grenade he lobbed at police bounced back at him off a tree
This sounds like a day in the life of Battlefield 3 with Foobes and me. In fact, I've not seen him online for a few days, anyone know if he's gone to Thailand? 
and found an iranian id card near the scene? wow how convenient. i can see it now, hey ahmed lets carry out a bombing in thailand, but make sure you have your id card, so in case it goes bad we can be identified easily 
am i the only one who doubts this is the work of iranian agents or does everybody think the iranian army is a bunch of un-trained gunbunnies?
am i the only one who doubts this is the work of iranian agents or does everybody think the iranian army is a bunch of un-trained gunbunnies?
jayb289 said:
found an iranian id card near the scene? wow how convenient. i can see it now, hey ahmed lets carry out a bombing in thailand, but make sure you have your id card, so in case it goes bad we can be identified easily
am i the only one who doubts this is the work of iranian agents or does everybody think the iranian army is a bunch of un-trained gunbunnies?
No. The next target on the list is Iran... am i the only one who doubts this is the work of iranian agents or does everybody think the iranian army is a bunch of un-trained gunbunnies?
ID card of the bomber?
They must think people are simple. Wait a mo...
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