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Iran Says Leader of Militant Group Arrested

   VOA News 23 February 2010
   Image grap from press conference in Tehran

Photo: AFP

   An  image  grab  taken  from Iran's English-language official Press TV
   station  shows  Iranian Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi showing a
   picture   of  top  Sunni  militant  Abdolmalek  Rigi  during  a  press
   conference in Tehran, 23 Feb 2010

   Iran's  intelligence  ministry says the head of a Sunni militant group
   has been arrested in eastern Iran.
   Iranian  state  media  report  Tuesday  that  security forces detained
   Abdolmalek  Rigi, leader of the group Jundallah, which has been blamed
   for a number of deadly attacks in the country.
   Iran, which says the group is based in Pakistan, asked that country to
   hand over Rigi after Jundallah claimed responsibility for a bombing in
   Iran in October.
   Fifty-seven  people  were  killed in that attack in Sistan-Baluchestan
   province, including members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards.
   Iran  also  has  accused  the United States of funding Jundallah in an
   effort  to  destabilize the Iranian government.  Washington denies the
   charge.

   Some information for this report provided by AFP and AP.

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