Israel to 'settle score' with Bangkok attackers

22.05.12

While the targets of the bombs was not clear, "we can assume from the other experiences that we were the target," Ambassador Itzhak Shoham told The Associated Press.

Thai police found and defused two magnetic bombs that could be stuck on vehicles after Tuesday' blasts, he said.

"They are similar to the ones used in Delhi and in Tbilisi," Shoham said. "From that we can assume that there is the same network of terror."

Israel has accused Iran of waging a covert campaign of state terror.

Shoham said the arrest of two Iranians in the blasts "again leaves not too much room to assume who was behind it."

A bombing of an Israeli diplomatic car in New Delhi on Monday injured four people, including a diplomat's wife. A similar bomb found under a car in Tbilisi, Georgia, on Monday was defused.

Four Thai civilians were wounded in Bangkok in a series of blasts that began when a cache of explosives ignited at a house, apparently by mistake. One explosion blew off the leg of an Iranian who had fled, carrying what looked like grenades.

Source: Atlanta Journal Constitution