{"id":15837,"date":"2012-07-19T08:50:25","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T16:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=15837"},"modified":"2012-07-19T08:54:13","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T16:54:13","slug":"israels-evidence-less-blaming-of-iran-in-bulgaria-bombing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/19\/israels-evidence-less-blaming-of-iran-in-bulgaria-bombing\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel&#8217;s Evidence-less Blaming of Iran in Bulgaria Bombing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/backchannel.al-monitor.com\/index.php\/2012\/07\/former-mossad-chief-better-to-wait-before-accusing-iran-in-bulgaria-bus-bombing\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=former-mossad-chief-better-to-wait-before-accusing-iran-in-bulgaria-bus-bombing\">Via Laura Rozen<\/a>, this video was released by Bulgarian authorities and allegedly shows the man suspected of blowing up the bus full of Israelis yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_1sczdD8soA\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bulgarian authorities on Thursday\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thelede.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/07\/19\/video-shows-suspected-bomber-before-deadly-attack-on-israelis-in-bulgaria\/?smid=tw-shar\">released a video of the man<\/a>\u00a0suspected of being the bus bomber, and said that he was carrying a fake Michigan driver\u2019s license. ABC News obtained\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/bulgaria-official-blast-suspect-fake-%3Cb%3Emichigan%3C\/b%3E-license\/story?id=16809310#.UAgvfvXZf3D\">a photo<\/a>\u00a0of the suspect\u2019s fake Michigan driver\u2019s license, which identifies the man as Jacque Felipe Martin, from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, born in 1987.<\/p>\n<p>Bulgarian media on Thursday <strong>identified the suspect as Mehdi Ghezali<\/strong>, the Times of Israel\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/bulgarian-press-names-suicide-bomber-who-killed-israelis-as-mehdi-ghezali\/\">reported<\/a>, which stressed the information had not been independently confirmed. News reports compiled at a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mehdi_Ghezali\">Wikipedia page<\/a>\u00a0on Mehdi Ghezali descrbe him as <strong>a Swedish citizen of Algerian and Finnish descent who was held at Guantanamo Bay<\/strong>, Cuba from 2002-2004 after being picked up by Pakistani security among a group of 150 Al Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu <a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2012\/07\/18\/israel-accuses-iran-in-bulgaria-bus-bomb-that-kills-six\/\">blamed\u00a0Iran<\/a> for the bombing and issued a threat of retaliation. &#8220;All the signs lead to Iran,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>But former Mossad chief\u00a0Danny Yatom told reporters on Thursday that Israel doesn&#8217;t know who did it and shouldn&#8217;t make accusations until they do.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Usually it takes some time to locate those who were behind the bombing, and those who sent them,\u201d he said. &#8220;From the\u00a0<em>modus operandi\u00a0<\/em>used by some organizations, it\u2019s logical to assume that Iran or Hezbollah or Hezbollah or Hezbollah and Iran were behind this terror attack,\u201d Yatom said. &#8220;As long as we don\u2019t have solid information about it, it\u2019s better to wait.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Laura Rozen, this video was released by Bulgarian authorities and allegedly shows the man suspected of blowing up the bus full of Israelis yesterday. Bulgarian authorities on Thursday\u00a0released a video of the man\u00a0suspected of being the bus bomber, and said that he was carrying a fake Michigan driver\u2019s license. ABC News obtained\u00a0a photo\u00a0of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-15837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15837"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15839,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15837\/revisions\/15839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15837"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=15837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}