GEORGIA: Bomb diffused at Israeli embassy in Georgia's capital Tbilisi, as another bomb explodes at Israeli embassy in New Delhi

Record ID: 357482

  • Title: GEORGIA: Bomb diffused at Israeli embassy in Georgia's capital Tbilisi, as another bomb explodes at Israeli embassy in New Delhi
  • Date: 14th February 2012
  • Summary: TBILISI, GEORGIA (FEBRUARY 13, 2012) (REUTERS) BUILDING HOUSING ISRAELI EMBASSY SECURITY OUTSIDE ENTRANCE VARIOUS OF PLAQUE READING: EMBASSY OF ISRAEL GUARD LOOKING OUT INTO STREET SECURITY WALKING OUTSIDE EMBASSY BUILDING
  • Embargoed: 29th February 2012 12:00
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  • Location: Georgia, Georgia
  • Country: Georgia
  • Topics: Crime
  • Reuters ID: LVA33DHL30F1VHEIHOLGEI1E7R01
  • Story Text: Bombers targeted staff at Israel's embassies in India and Georgia on Monday (February 13, 2012), the foreign ministry said, with a bomb going off in New Delhi but a second device in Tbilisi defused.
    A spokesman for Israel's foreign ministry confirmed that a bomb had been found in a car belonging to a staffer at the embassy in the Georgian capital Tbilisi, which was defused by local police.
    Israel had put its foreign missions on especially high alert ahead of the Feb. 12 anniversary of the assassination, in 2008, of the military mastermind of Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas, linked to the Shi'ite Islamist group Hezbollah, Imad Moughniyeh. Iranian-backed Hezbollah had vowed to avenge Moughniyeh's death in a Damascus car-bombing, blaming it on Israel.
    Israelis had also warned of possible reprisals ordered by Tehran for the assassination of several scientists involved in Iran's controversial nuclear programme. No-one has claimed responsibility for the Iran killings.
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