A senior American official confirmed to the New York Times Israel’s assertions on Thursday that the suicide bomber who killed five Israelis in an attack in Bulgaria on Wednesday was a member of a Hezbollah cell.
The first reported identity of the suspected bomber was Mehdi Ghezali, a Swedish citizen of Algerian and Finnish descent who was held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from 2002-2004 after being picked up by Pakistani authorities in Afghanistan. But Swedish authorities confirmed on Thursday that it was not Ghezali.
The US official did not offer any hard evidence for the claim that this was the work of Hezbollah. He included “no details yet about the bomber — his name, age or nationality and “also declined to describe what specific intelligence…led analysts to conclude that the suicide bomber belonged to Hezbollah.”
Nevertheless, the US official said the bomber had guidance from Hezbollah, a Lebanese militant group, and its primary sponsor, Iran.
“This was tit for tat,” said the American official, in retaliation for the assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists by Israeli agents. Israel has issued stern warnings about a violent retaliation, probably in a covert form.
Incidentally, this sort of tit for tat escalation may have been intended by Israel. “US officials have privately expressed concern that one of the purposes of Israeli attacks in Iran has been to generate an Iranian response that could serve as a casus belli for Israel,” writes Trita Parsi, President of the National Iranian American Council. “That way, Israel could target Iran’s nuclear facilities without paying the heavy political cost of starting a preventive war.”
Has anybody ever seen that "fake" US drivers ID?
Did journalists ever see that?
I still think that the FBI is just plain lying and it was a US citizen.
Of course the FBI would like to tell that to the people.
Maybe in 20 years or with WikiLeaks we will find out the truth.
who would fake a driver id with a well known town not in the right state. i believe you are watching another israel false flag. the usa will say anything aipac gives them
The photo was in the news. Definitely fake. A state does not issue a drivers license to drivers who live in another state; it was a Michigan DL with a Louisiana address.
That would be the Caucasian branch of Hezbollah, presumably, given the released description of the likely candidate.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/wat…
Yes, it looks so. Yesterday media were still writing that he would be Iranian or Hezbolla. Today they only write that he may have been "influenced" by Hezbollah. So, that's some kind of backpeddling and leaves almost everything wide open.
Drone kill — State of the art in rebellion extermination
Since the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, the Western world has been using terrorism to enslave the world, for at the entrance to every big city in the Roman Empire could be seen three crosses with a new supply each morning of victims to be tortured.
For this is why the West nuked two cities full of civilians in Japan, instead of two military bases, to erect a cross in the minds of everyone on earth, to terrorize the world into submission.
Comes now drone kill to be unending in Pakistan, drone kill to be expanded into other developing nations equally ripe for rebellion, even into the homeland of Empire USA where police are nothing more than the legalized killers who terrorize us into submission.
Empire liars — How they enrich themselves upon our misery
It’s not the quality of the lie that enables Empire builders to enrich themselves upon the misery of the world, but the degree to which people are suckered into supporting a greed driven imperialism.
For brutal imperialism is trading war materials for Middle-East oil, and trading $2 a day with a starving man in exchange for his sweatshop labor. For such greed driven plunder is nothing else but the educated upper half of the “international community” enriching itself upon the misery of the uneducated in a worldwide scheme of modern day capitalist slavery.
The reports that the person that did this had a fake Michigan driver license http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/bul…
have me wondering. Did the person for whom the original license was issued have a chance to go through any Israeli passport inspections? It wasn't that long ago we learned the Mossad had a nice little Fake IDs R Us operation going.
I would almost bet israel killed it's own citizens to further their war machine they are starting up
Irgun et al used to do that as a matter of custom. "The ends justify the means", nothing less.
I bet you'd almost break 70 on an IQ test.
I bet you would be in the negative
There's that singular wit of yours! It only took you two hours to come up with that? I'm impressed. That's pretty good for an Islamo-facist such as yourself.
He has his standards.
Maybe he was busy spending quality time with his goats?
When war is the goal, any means to achieve it is possible. Dark actors indeed.
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
John Stuart Mill
Wars of aggression — A coward’s delight
What would virtually all men consider the greatest cowardly act a man could ever commit?
Surely it would be for a man to protect his personal safety by killing women and children. Comes now a realization that our paid actor President Truman is the greatest coward in the history of man, for instead of nuking two military bases in Japan, Truman picked two civilian cities and nuke vaporized 220,000 civilians, two-thirds of which were women and children.
For that supreme act of terrorism was the birth of Empire USA, for if your game plan is brutal imperialism by wars of aggression, then you first need to terrorize the world into submission.
I doubt that people in England or the USA know much about war. They always belonged to the winners. They were never bombed out of their homes and had to run hundreds of miles just to save their lives. As it shows history is not over yet and it still could happen and you should be aware there will be NO parades and no big talk of heroism and patriotism after a LOST war!
I can only think you are a teenager who still thinks war is heroic. Do you think that just because you quote Stuart Mill, people are going to be awed at your great choice? After all, what did this philosopher know about war? However, i understand you because youth is often full of foolish attitudes and postures. What I can say is that when you marry, have children and care for their safety, and have trodden life's roads some more, you will probably feel ashamed of quoting what you did today.
Bulgarian media have reportedly identified the man responsible for blowing up the bus with Israeli tourists on Wednesday as Mehdi Ghezali, a jihadist who spent two years in Guantanamo. US officials responded there is “no evidence” that it was him. Ghezali’s name was revealed by Times of Israel newspaper, who cited local Bulgarian media sources.
Al Qaeda better known as Al Ciada are trained and financed by US and Saudia Arabia. Is it likely they would be working hand in hand with Iran and Hezeballah
Tonbridge,
Do you realize the rubbish you’re spinning? Saying Al-Qaeda and Al Ciada trained and financed by the US and Saudi Arabia, and it is likely they work with Iran and Hezbollah!!! Tell us, do they also get training and financial help from Iran and Hezbollah, and if not, why are they working for them. Are you on some medication?
There is a security video shot of Mehdi Ghazali on the Debka site.
Israel threatens retaliation before it is known who did it or why – doesn't that sound like a policy of inherent hostility and universal paranoia? And if they do know, is it too much to ask for a little bit of proof? I don't want my country to have a damn thing to do with these jerks – with their all consuming hatreds, they will destroy themselves – our main goal should be to keep them from involving us in their madness. We have enough home-grown madness right here – our leaders took "revenge" upon Afghanistan and Iraq and never even bothered to prove who did 9-11 or why.
hey false flag with fake passpot is the israel method. what bibi states is usually a lie.
Now they are saying the guy who did the bombing had short hair, and that the bomb was in the luggage compartment under the bus.
This makes no sense other than as an Israeli black op. Such an attack has to be planned well in advance. Islamic terrorists didn't just happen to be sitting on the roadside in the backwoods of Bulgaria (a country few Israelis visit) on the off chance that a busload of Israeli tourists might happen to pass that way! What terrorist organisation has the means to keep tabs on the movements of private Israeli citizens to such an extent that they knew that that bus would be in that place at that time? I tend to agree with Mr Parsi. This looks very like Israeli "pot stirring".
Not surprising IF the alledged bomber was held in the HELL of the US prison in Cuba that he should seek this kind of revenge.
What one sows one will reap.
So you yankees think that the Iranians were born in 1776 as you all and make foolish mistakes as your "govt" does.Iran has been around for five thousand years so get a life if you can.
“US Blames Hezbollah for Bulgaria Bomb Attack on Israelis”
Wow! This is a miracle. For the first time there’s at least one point on which the US and Israel disagree: Israel blames Iran; the US blames Hezbollah.
I bet either the US or Israel, or both are lying.
There were no witnesses, we recovered no evidence whatsoever, we have no clue if the perpetrator was male or female, tall or short… We just know Iran is behind it.