Courtesy of Marla Singer
A lone suicide bomber, on foot managing to catch unawares five “senior commanders” in Iraq where only the smartest and best organized insurgents are still alive to mount such action might be a three or four sigma event. A lone suicide bomber, on foot managing to catch unawares five “senior commanders” of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard by waiting by the entrance of the complex where they were to meet local tribal leaders… that’s a bit rarer still. Whisperings of western involvement in the incident are… still just whisperings.
One wonders, however, what strength Tehran will now have to divert to Sistan-Baluchestan near the Pakistan and Afghanistan to beef up security, where those forces will come from and what confusion the loss of senior commanders in the area will cause. All in all, rather an effective bit of work if you are in the force disruption business. Crude longs: take note.