Iran grounds plane with Rigi holding US-issued passport
PressTV / PressTV
23-Feb-2010 (2 comments)

The photo shows Rigi's fake Pakistani ID card, issued under the name of Saeed Ahmad.
Iran's security officers grounded the plane carrying the ringleader of Jundullah terrorist group Abdolmalek Rigi in one of Iran's southern ports, informed sources say.

As initial reports indicated that Iran's most wanted man was captured on a flight en-route to Kyrgyzstan from Dubai, a source talking to Press TV on condition of anonymity confirmed that Rigi and one of his deputies were captured after their plane was brought down by security forces in an airport in the Iranian Persian Gulf city of Bandar Abbas.

Iran's intelligence minister says the leader of Jundallah terrorist group was at a US base in Afghanistan 24 hours before his capture, in possession of a US-issued, forged Afghan passport.

Iran's Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi said Tuesday that the leader of Jundallah terrorist group was at a US base in Afghanistan 24 hours before his capture, in possession of a US-issued, forged Afghan passport.

According to Moslehi, the country's intelligence apparatus had been tracking Rigi for five months prior to his Tuesday arrest.

The terrorist leader was at a US base in Afghanistan 24 hours before his capture, the minister added showing a photo of Rigi's presence at the Iranian base taken by Iran's intelligence officers.

According to the intelligence minister, Rigi also met with NATO military chief in Afghanistan in April 2008 and also ha... >>>

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Javadagha

Fantastic

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Fantastic.  Fantastic. 

This is excellent news!  I wonder if this is the reason Dick Cheney was taken to the hospital with chest pains :-) 

Fred chicken.  Fantastic.


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