Iran Blames Israel for Bombing Al Qaeda Already Took Credit For

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Well this is certainly awkward.

Al Qaeda took responsibility for the double bombing at the Iranian embassy in Beirut Tuesday morning, minutes after Iran accused Israel of being behind the explosions that killed an Iranian diplomat and at least 22 others.

The Iranian ambassador to Lebanon, Ghadanfar Roknabadi, said it was an “Israeli scheme” and that the attacks served the “Zionist entity.”

The Abdullah Azzam Brigades, linked with Al Qaeda, said it was behind the bombings, one set off by a motorcyclist and the second detonated by a suicide car bomber whose vehicle carried 200 pounds of TNT. At least 146 people were wounded. Among the fatalities was Ebrahim al-Ansari, the cultural attaché of the embassy.

Regardless of who was behind the attack, it was a serious breach of security in the heavily guarded and Hezbollah-controlled area of Beirut where the embassy is located. The car bomb exploded only 30 feet from the building.

A car bombing targeting an Iranian facility is ironic, considering that Iran has a history of car bombing other people’s facilities. On top of that Syria had a propensity for Beirut car bombings.

Iran meanwhile keeps determinedly pretending that it isn’t in the middle of a religious holy war with Sunnis, but that it’s fighting Israel.

The Abdullah Azzam Brigades is named after a Muslim Brotherhood member who one of the major influences on Osama bin Laden and who was obsessed with destroying Israel. Eventually he was taken down in an internal struggle, by a car bomb, likely directed by the current head of Al Qaeda, another Muslim Brotherhood member, who was obsessed with bringing the Jihad to Egypt.

Azzam was a founding member of Hamas.

  • john spielman

    it’s obvious, Israel and AL Qaeda are working together!(sarc)

    • A Z

      Iran and Al Qaeda worked together earlier in the millenia. At the very least Iran provided safe haven for Al Qaeda such as some of Osama’s sons.

      One of Osama’s wives divorced him. she had had enough of Afghanistan and poverty. She was university trained. She also lives in Saudi Arabia.

      No drone strike for her, because she is NOT a bad actor. If his sons that lived in Iran were innocent then why are they living in Iran instead of Saudi Arabia.

      There are a lot of bin Laden 1/2 brothers in Europe and the Middle East. They are not in hiding. They are keeping a low public profile, but they do not have to hide.

      So again I ask why are some Bin Laden sons hiding in Iran? Looks to me like Iran has aided and abetted Al Qaeda in the past 10 years.

    • A Z

      Strange bedfellows — Iran and al Qaeda
      By Peter Bergen, CNN National Security Analyst

      http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/10/opinion/bergen-iran-al-qaeda/index.html

      While the golden house arrest was not totally fun for the Al Qaeda types it dud given them a safe haven. they has time to hit the swimming pool or shop at the mall.

      When the Iron Curtain came down, a whole generation of Bader Meinhoff gang turned themselves in. They could no longer plan an operation, execute it and then escape to a 5 star hotel in east Germany paid for by the East German or Russian governments. It was no longer safe; risk had gone up. It was no longer fun!

      The Iranian served as somewhat the same type of safe haven for Al Qaeda.

      This sh_t would have cone to an end sooner if they hurt cold have been put on Al Qaeda earlier.

    • glpage

      I kind of thought Mossad was good, but I didn’t know they were good enough to get al Qaeda to do their dirty work.

  • A Z

    “Al Qaeda took responsibility for the double bombing at the Iranian EMBASSY in BEIRUT”

    How does it feel?

  • Biff Henderson

    Who you going to believe, a pack of bloodthirsty terrorists or a Republic founded on the Noble Koran? Hmmmm….

  • Biff Henderson

    Who you going to believe, a pack of bloodthirsty terrorists or a Republic founded on the Noble Koran? Hmmmm….