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Iran Blames Israel for Bombing Al Qaeda Already Took Credit For

Posted By Daniel Greenfield On November 20, 2013 @ 9:10 am In The Point | 7 Comments

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.


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