Israel, Iran trade barbs over suicide attack on Bulgaria bus
A truck carries the bus damaged by the suicide bomb blast which targeted a group of Israeli tourists, at the airport in Bourgas, Bulgaria, on July 19, 2012. / NIKOLAY DOYCHINOV/AFP/Getty Images
(AP) UNITED NATIONS - Iran called Israeli allegations that it was responsible for last week's suicide bombing of a bus carrying Israeli tourists in Bulgaria "baseless" on Wednesday and accused Israel of carrying out a terrorist operation.
Israel's deputy U.N. ambassador Haim Waxman called the allegation by Iranian Ambassador Mohammad Khazaee "appalling but not surprising" since it came from the same government that says the 9/11 attack was a conspiracy theory and denies the Holocaust.
Israel accuses Iran of developing atomic weapons and has repeatedly hinted it is prepared to strike Iranian nuclear targets if Tehran does not curb its suspect program. Iran denies it is trying to develop nuclear weapons and says its nuclear program is designed to produce nuclear energy.
Waxman raised the issue of the Bulgarian bombing during a U.N. Security Council debate on the Mideast, accusing Iran and Hezbollah of responsibility for the bombing that killed five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian bus driver. He also blamed Iran and Hezbollah for terrorist attacks and attempted attacks in recent months in India, Azerbaijan, Thailand, Kenya, Turkey and Cyprus that targeted Israelis.
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When he took the floor, Khazaee insisted that "we have never and will not engage in such a despicable attempt on the lives of innocent people."
"Such terrorist operation could only be planned and carried out by the same regime whose short history is full of state terrorism operations and assassinations aimed at implicating others for narrow political gains," he said.
Khazaee said he could provide many examples showing that Israel "killed its own citizens and innocent Jewish people during the last couple of decades in order to blame others."
"Iran is a victim of such operations and the assassinations of Iran's nuclear scientists are fresh cases in our mind," he said.
Tehran claims Israel's Mossad spy agency has been behind the slayings of at least five nuclear scientists since 2010, as well as other clandestine operations such as planting powerful computer viruses.
Waxman reiterated in a statement after the council meeting ended that "Iran's fingerprints are all over last week's horrific attack in Bulgaria — and in dozens of other terrorist plots in recent months that span five continents and at least 24 countries."
"The time has come for the world to put an end to this campaign of terror, once and for all," he said.
Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boiko Borisov said Tuesday that a sophisticated group of conspirators was involved in the bombing. He did not give any numbers or nationalities of those believed to be responsible but described them as "exceptionally skilled" and said they "observed absolute secrecy."
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Sources: CRS Report RL33221: U.S. Foreign Aid to Arab States, updated Jan. 2, 2009, plus the FY '08 omnibus appropriations bill, H.R. 2765.
This estimate of total U.S. direct aid to Arab World updates the estimate given in the July 2007 issue of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. It is an estimate because arriving at an exact figure is not possible, since parts of U.S. aid to Arabs are a) buried in the budgets of various U.S. agencies, mostly that of the Defense Department (DOD), or b) in a form not easily quantifiable, such as the early disbursement of aid, giving the Arabs a direct benefit in interest income and the U.S. Treasury a corresponding loss. Given these caveats, our current estimate of cumulative total direct aid tothe Arabs are $422.8554 billion.
It must be emphasized that this analysis is a conservative, defensible accounting of U.S. direct aid to Pan-Arabia, NOT of Arabias 's cost to the U.S. or the American taxpayer, nor of the benefits to Israel of U.S. aid. The distinction is important, because the indirect or consequential costs suffered by the U.S. as a result of its blind support for Pan-Arabia's exceed by many times the substantial amount of direct aid to Israel. (See, for example, the late Robert R. Miller's article in the June 2005 Washington Report, "The Costs to American Taxpayers of the Arabian protection: $6 Trillion.")
So much of what we find posted here only fans the fire for the parties in conflict, and in some cases, postings are purposed to incite more hate, destruction and killing.
Why don't we just contribute helpful comments, and help the parties get out of their mindsets which keeps them trapped and blinded, that could offer a better approach?
I'm glad you finally got something right .
Perhaps the mushroom cloud will float over Israel, saving the U.S. taxpayer Trillion of shekels
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Considering that this individual (s) is wishing for an entire people to be killed I will respond with I hope he/she does not die quickly but enjoys a long suffering cancer of the bones for years to come.
You can choose to eliminate my account but I recorded his initial posting for posterity.
After all...your ilk lie as a sport as all well know. Its repeated over and over in your Holy book...right Achmed ?
By the way Achmed.....I'm Agnostic so stuff it and enjoy that cancer later this year.
FormerpRIVATE,
So with all your military (intelliegence ? ) that you hold so high are you saying that the CIA/MI5/ Mossad etc give out their intelligence to such wizards as yourself and CBS ?
Even the police don't give out the information your bleeping about while the crime scene is still warm.
Thanks again for your scintilla of an argument.
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I claim no such thing and only a moron would read that in to what I posted.
Israel makes no case. Period. Just claims.
They were blaming Iran before any evidence could have even been gathered from the scene.
Swallow whatever Israel claims whole-hog as fact if you wish.
As for me, I'll wait on the investigation results before jumping to conclusions.
Denial is a ***** isn't it Private.
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As Israel offers up not a scintilla of evidence to back up it's claim, I find it just as probable that it was a Mossad mission designed to fan the flames of war which Israel dearly wants.
So with all your military (intelliegence ? ) that you hold so high are you saying that the CIA/MI5/ Mossad etc give out their intelligence to such wizards as yourself and CBS ?
Even the police don't give out the information your bleeping about while the crime scene is still warm.
Thanks again for your scintilla of an argument.
I'm glad you hate them so much which means their doing just fine !
We can be better informed by researching
"Iranium The Movie" and "The Mahdi".
Iranian Ayatollas' and leaders' visions of our world and future with FORCED Sharia Law, when The Mahdi or Islamic Messiah arrives ...
... only AFTER Nuclear World War III and world destruction, which is the current Islamofascist Iranian regime's HOLY RELIGIOUS DUTY to precipitate.
Either submit to Strict Islamic Law, or be murdered as a non-believer (of Islam) or 'infidel.'
Oh...............and The USA has fought with her soldiers to defend them where Israel has never asked America to fight for her with their soldiers.
Otherwise.......your really swell at the Cut and Paste thingee but you would think there was more than 2 or 3 you could find from your trove of propoganda you keep on file.
Now, go back to your sandbox .