ASSESSMENTS

A Possible Concerted Effort To Kill Israeli Diplomats

Feb 14, 2012 | 01:20 GMT

Investigators at a blast scene near the Israeli Embassy in New Delhi on Feb. 13

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Summary

On the afternoon of Feb. 13, Georgian police defused an explosive device that had been placed under an Israeli Embassy vehicle in Tbilisi. Nearly simultaneously, a "sticky bomb" attached to a vehicle carrying an employee of the Israeli Embassy in New Delhi exploded. While the incidents did not claim any lives, they follow several alleged Iranian plots targeting Israeli diplomats and citizens.

Israeli Embassy officials were targeted in a Feb. 13 bombing in New Delhi and an attempted bombing in Tbilisi. ...

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