Bulgaria’s Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov said the attack that killed Israeli tourists and bus driver was carried out by a suicide bomber.
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The Bulgarian police have published the image of a man suspected of perpetrating a terror attack at the Burgas Arporton Wednesday night.
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Eight people were killed as a bus carrying 40 Israeli
tourists approached the Sarafovo international airport terminal in the
Bulgarian holiday city of Burgas, which is popular with Israeli
tourists. The bus driver and 18 injured tourists were hospitalized, four
of them are in critical condition. The hospital building has been put
under 24-hour security.
Reports that two Russians were injured following a deadly blast on a bus carrying Israeli tourists in Bulgaria are either a provocation, or a mistake, the Russian consulate in Varna said.
The
blast rocked the airport building and set ablaze two buses and several
cars parked nearby. Bulgaria’s Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov has
said that the bombing was most likely a suicide attack. The attacker is
known to have been carrying a fake driving license from the United
States.
US President Barack Obama has pledged every
kind of assistance in tracing the culprits. He also expressed regret
that Israeli nationals had become a target for a terrorist attack again
and reaffirmed the US’ commitment to guarantee the security of its
Middle East ally.
The Israeli government blames Iran
for masterminding the attack. “All signs point to Iran”, Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday. He said that the past few months had
seen attempts by Iran to harm Israelis in Thailand, India, Georgia,
Kenya, Cyprus and other countries and that Israel would react forcefully
to Iran's terror. According to Israel’s Defense Minister Ehud Barak,
the attack was probably initiated by Hezbollah, or Hamas, or Islamic
Jihad.
Yevgeny Satanovsky of the Russian Institute
for the Middle East said as he met with a Voice of Russia correspondent
on Thursday that Hezbollah’s leader Sheikh Nasrallah admitted in a
recent interview that Iran had been supplying Hezbollah and Hamas with
weapons. The Hezbollah leader also made it clear that the Arab
resistance to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands would continue
on all fronts. Yevgeny Satanovsky sees a connection between these
statements and the Burgas blast.
"As the undeclared
war between Iran and Israel unwinds, Israel is targeting the Islamic
Revolutionary Guard Corps, while Iran is targeting diplomats and
civilians. The recent terrorist attack is unlikely to worsen the
situation in the region: when you are afflicted with cholera, a rise in
another patient’s temperature will not affect the overall atmosphere in
the cholera ward. The Middle East has exploded with Arab Spring
uprisings. As regimes crumble one after another, we are rapidly moving
towards a large-scale war between Iran and the Arabian monarchies. Syria
is one of the fronts of this war. Given the situation, Israel is not
attractive as a target. Only its old opponents are waging war against
it. But as they do so, they themselves come under attack from entirely
different directions."
Israel expert Alexander
Eterman said in a Voice of Russia interview that the accusations against
Iran could be premature as the identity of the suicide attacker had not
been established and it was still unclear what kind of explosives had
been used in the attack.
"Israel is sending a team of
7 investigators to Bulgaria. It’d make more sense to wait a couple of
days before making any accusations. However, the accusations I question
sound right. Hezbollah has been planning to settle the scores with
Israel for years. It looks like Iran and Hezbollah are behind the
attack."
According to the Russian Foreign Ministry,
those responsible for the deadly blast must be identified and brought to
justice. Moscow has condemned the attack as outrageous pursuing the
criminal purpose of killing innocent people, including women and
children.
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