Syria: 48 Iranian pilgrims kidnapped from bus travelling to Damascus airport

Syrian rebel fighters man an improvised checkpoint in a suburb of Damascus, Syria. Photo: AP

My oh my...now won't THIS get interesting!  A total of 48 Iranians traveling to the Damascus, Syria airport were kidnapped today by armed gunmen.  Now, I wonder....is the Ayatollah and Ahmadinejad prepared to sit in Tehran for the same number of days for their hostages as America did waiting for theirs in Tehran?

Can you imagine a video where all 48 of these Iranians are executed?  Will there be a ransom demanded?  Will the Iranians send in some Revolutionary Guard units to free the hostages?

Stay tuned.  This might get really fun.

The story comes from The Telegraph.

Syria: 48 Iranian pilgrims kidnapped from bus travelling to Damascus airport


"Armed terrorist groups kidnapped 48 Iranian pilgrims on their way to the airport," said Majid Kamjou.

"There are no reports about the fate of the pilgrims. The embassy and Syrian officials are trying to trace the kidnappers," he said.

Hundreds of thousands of Iranians travel each year to Syria to visit a Shiite pilgrimage site, the Shrine of Zaynab, in Damascus.

Tehran is the staunchest ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, whose forces are locked in a bloody conflict in Damascus and other cities against rebels his regime describes as "terrorists".

Several dozen Iranian pilgrims and engineers were abducted in December and January, with most being released months later.

Many of the rebels come from Syria's Sunni majority, which is hostile to the support Shiite Iran has shown to the regime of Assad, whose family is Alawite, a Shiite offshoot.