Update: Attack on Israeli Embassy Staff in New Delhi
Feb 14th, 2012 | 9 responses
(Photo courtesy AP)
A 5-member Israeli team, including 2 MOSSAD members, has arrived in New Delhi to help in the investigations following a deadly attack near the Israeli embassy in which Ms Tal Yehoshua-Koren, a staffer of the Israeli embassy’s accounts department, was seriously injured. She was on her way from office to the American Embassy School to pick up her children.
Tal Yehoshua’s condition is stable after having undergone two surgeries at a hospital in New Delhi’s diplomatic enclave, Chanakyapuri. She has been partially paralysed due to injury to her spine but is expected to recover following the removal of the shrapnel causing the compression of the spine. In an operation that lasted 2.5 hours, shrapnel were also removed from her liver.
Update: Ms Tal Yehoshua-Koren, hurt badly in a car bomb blast on Monday, is likely to be flown back to her country once her condition stabilizes. More here…
Israeli Ambassador to India Alon Ushpiz told NDTV, “Iran has been openly calling for the destruction of Israel. This was planned in Tehran.”
Iran has firmly denied the allegations. Ramin Mehmanparast, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson said, “We categorically reject the accusations made by the Zionist regime. They are part of a propaganda war… Iran condemns all acts of terrorism.”
India, which will have to walk the diplomatic tightrope, has assured Israel of a serious and thorough investigation. More here…
After an Israeli diplomat’s car exploded in New Delhi, just a few feet from Prime Minister of India’s residence, Israel has blamed Iran for what it describes as a terror attack. Israel has given list of suspects to India.
Here are 10 big developments in the case: Investigators believe the bomb was planted on the car by a man on a motorcycle when the SUV paused at a traffic signal.
Sources who are familiar with India’s investigation into the blast said the explosive device that was attached to the Israeli vehicle was manufactured on the lines of “Limpet Mines” and that these types of bombs were initially used to by naval forces in World War Two. See here…
9 Responses to “Update: Attack on Israeli Embassy Staff in New Delhi”
Car bomb?? Those guys should have just killed themselves in the process. Now MOSSAD is going to find them, interrogate them, and kill everyone that was involved.
My reaction was pretty much the same as Shannon’s. Somebody just signed their own death warrant.
Has all the fingerprints of an MEK attack.
The Iranians did it (says Israeli news). The Israelis did it (says Iranian news) and the Israelis tried to blow their own people up in Georgia, also, as a “psych war” against Iran.
Surprisingly the U.S. media (NY Times) reported all of the above and more:
It might have been Hezbollah. “Hezbollah, the Lebanese Islamist group with close ties to Iran, has promised to take revenge for the killing of its top commander, Imad Mugniyah, four years ago this week. Mr. Mugniyah had been sought by the United States in terrorist attacks that killed hundreds of Americans in the 1980s.”
Maybe I’ll stick to the corporate owned U.S. media for a while yet.
Well, “who did it” changes nothing. Those people will be dead soon…no matter where they live. Tensions are so high and outcomes are so critical, that something like this doesn’t have the effect that it used to. Right now, Iran and Israel are playing chicken with nuclear weapons. Syria is murdering its own people and the rest of the ME is in upheaval.
For the people involved, this is very tragic…for the region…it’s a blip on the screen.
ShannonLee
The Israelis have said they will not retaliate, which is a new tack for them.
A different narrative on who did it is covered on Juan Cole’s blog here http://www.juancole.com/2012/02/indian-investigators-do-not-suspect-iran-in-israel-embassy-blast.html
He points out that India has had problems with domestic terrorism in the past, and that some of those Sunni groups would have reason to dislike the Israeli regime even as they have no love for Iranian. Although a single state actor/instigator might better explain closely timed incidents in India and Georgia (not necessarily, non-state instigators can possibly coordinate as well?), Cole’s speculation is based on actual comparisons between this MO and previous events, which is another relevant criterion.
OH… which is why it is a lie.
…I heard Israel doesn’t have nuclear weapons either.
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