Iranian police kill 10 'bandits' near Afghan border

TEHRAN (AFP) - Iranian police have killed 10 bandits who entered the country via the northeastern frontier with Afghanistan, the official IRNA news agency reported, following a deadly ambush in another border area last week.

"On Saturday evening, some armed bandits and agents who were trying to enter the country and create insecurity were spotted by... border troops," a police commander, Eskandar Momeni, was quoted as saying in the report late Sunday.

Momeni said the raiders were killed and that weapons, drugs and a satellite telephone seized.

The incident followed an ambush by Afghan bandits close to another border area on Thursday in which at least 22 people were killed and another 12 reported missing.

more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060320/wl_mideast_afp/iranunrest_060320100332

This stinks

Bandits now gets a tentative cross-listing with independent contractors/'merikan mercenaries in my thesaurus of the post-911 American language.

:shrug:

against global justice and stability