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5 Revolutionary Guard Commanders Killed in Iran Bomb
Fox News ^ | October 18, 2009 | AP

Posted on 10/18/2009 2:44:08 AM PDT by bogusname

The IRNA news agency said the dead included the deputy commander of the Guard's ground force, Gen. Noor Ali Shooshtari, as well as a chief provincial Guard commander for the area, Rajab Ali Mohammadzadeh. The other dead were Guard members or local tribal leaders. Dozens of others were wounded, the report said.

The commanders were inside a car on their way to a meeting in the Pishin region near Iran's border with Pakistan when an attacker with explosives blew himself up, IRNA said.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but the region in Iran's southeast has been at the center of violent attacks by a Sunni militant group called Jundallah, or Soldiers of God, that has waged a low-level insurgency in recent years...

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bomb; iran; mohammadzadeh; revolutionaryguard; shooshtari; tehran

1 posted on 10/18/2009 2:44:08 AM PDT by bogusname
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To: bogusname

What goes aronud...


2 posted on 10/18/2009 3:11:43 AM PDT by MichaelP (Peckerwood is in charge...)
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To: MichaelP

boom shakka lakka


3 posted on 10/18/2009 4:13:31 AM PDT by manonCANAL
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To: bogusname

They hit a military target not a market full of women and children. They’re obviously not connected to Taliban or Al Qaeda.


4 posted on 10/18/2009 4:36:46 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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To: bogusname

Don’t usually celebrate a suicide bombing - but if it took out members / leaders of the Revolutionary Guard - then GOOD!!!


5 posted on 10/18/2009 5:31:48 AM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt (Obama's Deathcare ---- many will suffer and/or die unnecessarily.)
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To: bogusname
Fox does not - that I could read - identify the Generals killed or give their signifigance - who were:
Gen. Nur-Ali Shushtari, deputy commander of the IRGC ground forces, and Gen. Mohammad-Zadeh, chief IRGC commander of the province.

The loss of top IRGC commanders is a grave blow to the elite corps... Gen. Shuhstari's covert position as commander of the Al Qods Brigades' bases abroad, in such places as Iran and Afghanistan and in support of the Hizballah in Lebanon and the Palestinian Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Al Qods runs the IRGC terrorist campaigns outside Iran. Shushtari was also Gen. Qassem Suleimeni, the Revolutionary Guards' chief's deputy.

This is more very bad news for the Iranian military - there have been too many of these "accidents" to be coincidental actions by seperate groups. Looks to me like a military decapitation strike by pieces.
6 posted on 10/18/2009 5:38:17 AM PDT by PIF
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To: PIF

I would have preferred using one of their own IUD’s, but that’ll work.


7 posted on 10/18/2009 5:55:52 AM PDT by takbodan (.)
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To: bogusname

Gee . . . too bad.

NOT!


8 posted on 10/18/2009 5:57:18 AM PDT by No Truce With Kings (The opinions expressed are mine! Mine! MINE! All Mine!)
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To: No Truce With Kings

It struck me the same way. :)


9 posted on 10/18/2009 5:58:24 AM PDT by bogusname (Banish All Lliberals)
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To: takbodan

10 posted on 10/18/2009 6:41:05 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Iran should have ceased to exist Nov 5, 1979, but we had no president then either.)
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To: MichaelP

Bingo! You sponsor terrorism and specifically homicide bombers. You train, fund, ideologically and religiously justify homicide bombing terrorism. And you are going to get more of it and at least some is going to be directed at you.


11 posted on 10/18/2009 7:28:54 AM PDT by Jabba the Nutt (Are they insane, stupid or just evil?)
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