Iranian cyber warfare commander shot dead in suspected assassination

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/10350285/Iranian-cyber-warfare-commander-shot-dead-in-suspected-assassination.html

By Damien McElroy, and Ahmad Vahdat
Telegraph.co.uk
02 Oct 2013

Mojtaba Ahmadi, who served as commander of the Cyber War Headquarters, was 
found dead in a wooded area near the town of Karaj, north-west of the 
capital, Tehran. Five Iranian nuclear scientists and the head of the 
country’s ballistic missile programme have been killed since 2007. The 
regime has accused Israel’s external intelligence agency, the Mossad, of 
carrying out these assassinations.

Ahmadi was last seen leaving his home for work on Saturday. He was later 
found with two bullets in the heart, according to Alborz, a website linked 
to the Revolutionary Guard Corps. “I could see two bullet wounds on his 
body and the extent of his injuries indicated that he had been 
assassinated from a close range with a pistol,” an eyewitness told the 
website.

The commander of the local police said that two people on a motorbike had 
been involved in the assassination.

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