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bemildred

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Thu Aug 30, 2012, 12:23 PM Aug 2012

Gaps in India's 'Iran' bomb case

WASHINGTON - The "Special Cell" of the New Delhi police has identified an Iranian, Houshang Afghan Irani, as the man it believes carried out a February 13 car bombing at the Israeli embassy in New Delhi that injured the wife of an embassy official.

The police believe three other Iranians were also involved in the plot. But major questions about the integrity of evidence put forward to prove the existence of an Iranian bomb plot cast doubt on that claim, which is the centerpiece of the Israeli accusation that Iran has been waging a campaign of terrorism against Israelis in as many as 20 countries.

Only Indian journalist Syed Mohammed Ahmad Kazmi has been officially charged in the case - according to police, Kazmi confessed to helping officials from Iran plan the bombing plot in return for payments totalling US$5,500. The treatment of Irani and the other Iranians as suspects also depends very heavily on "disclosure statements" supposedly made by Kazmi but denounced by the journalist as police fabrications.

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Kazmi is an unlikely candidate for participation in an Iranian terrorist plot. A 50-year-old senior Indian journalist, he had his own web-based news service, a regular job as a columnist for the leading Urdu-language weekly and a retainer as Urdu newscaster for India’s state-owned television channel Doordarshan.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/NH30Df04.html

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