WEDNESDAY, 16 NOVEMBER 2011 01:45 NEWS FROM JERUSALEM
JERUSALEM – A top general killed in a mysterious bomb blast in Iran this past weekend recently sent his assistants to the Gaza Strip to train militants there to target Israel with missiles, according to informed Middle Eastern security officials speaking to WND.
JERUSALEM – A top general killed in a mysterious bomb blast in Iran this past weekend recently sent his assistants to the Gaza Strip to train militants there to target Israel with missiles, according to informed Middle Eastern security officials speaking to WND.Israeli officials could not immediately confirm the information.
In a phone call with WND, Fawzi Barhoum, a spokesman for Hamas, denied the assistants were in Gaza.
Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Hasan Moghaddam, a key figure in Iran's missile program, was killed together with 16 other Guard members Saturday when a massive explosion went off at a military arms site 25 miles southwest of Tehran.
The Guard said the explosion was a work accident that occurred while military personnel were transporting munitions.
On Sunday, however, Time Magazine quoted a Western intelligence official stating Israel was behind the explosion.
"Don't believe the Iranians that it was an accident," the Western official told Time, insisting that widespread assumptions that Israel's Mossad was responsible for the blast were correct.
The official claimed Israel had more plans to sabotage Iran's nuclear program, telling Time, "There are more bullets in the magazine."
The Middle Eastern security officials, meanwhile, told WND that in August Moghaddam sent one of his top assistants to Gaza to train jihad groups there on the use of missiles and rockets.
By Aaron Klein - read more at WND