Re: Iran says rescues diplomat kidnapped in Pakistan

enayet wrote:
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran said Tuesday that its intelligence agents had
rescued an Iranian diplomat kidnapped in Pakistan in 2008 and returned
him to the Islamic Republic. Unidentified gunmen kidnapped
Heshmatollah Attarzadeh Niyaki, the commercial attache at Iran's
consulate in Peshawar, on November 13, 2008 on his way to the
consulate from his home, shooting dead a policeman guarding him.
"Iran's intelligence agents freed our kidnapped diplomat in a
sophisticated operation," Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi told
state television. "He has safely returned to Iran." Moslehi gave no
further information on the operation, and Abbas Ali Abdullahi, head of
the Iranian consulate in Peshawar, told Reuters he had "no information
about where he was recovered."

Now that is interesting.

Does the Afghan government both know and approve of Iranian intelligence agencies operating in their country.

Please don't misunderstand, the story is obviously a retelling of 'How we paid a great big bribe to get our man back' but their claimed intelligence operation is interesting in itself.


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William Black

"Any number under six"

The answer given by Englishman Richard Peeke when asked by the Duke of Medina Sidonia how many Spanish sword and buckler men he could beat single handed with a quarterstaff.
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