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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Iran seizes Sunni militant from flight 'in blow to US' AFP - Wednesday, February 24 Send IM Story Print Photographers take pictures of weapons allegedly confiscated from the Jundallah (Soldiers of God) Sunni rebel group in Zahedan, Iran in 2009. Iran arrested head of the shadowy rebel group Jundallah on a flight from Dubai only 24 hours after he was at a US military base in Afghanistan, in what it hailed as a "defeat" for its Western arch-foes. TEHRAN (AFP) - – Iran seized a top Sunni militant on a flight from Dubai on Tuesday just 24 hours after claiming he was in Afghanistan at a US military base, in what it hailed as a "defeat" for its Western arch-foes. The claim by Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi, who said Abdolmalek Rigi had been issued an Afghan passport by the "Americans," travelled to Europe and met a NATO military chief in Afghanistan, was dismissed by Washington as "bogus." State television aired footage of a handcuffed Rigi, wearing a white shirt and khaki trousers, as masked Iranian agents led him off an aircraft at an unknown location. It was not immediately clear how Iranian authorities were able to remove the leader of the shadowy rebel group Jundallah (Soldiers of God) from the flight between Dubai and Kyrgyzstan. But an official at Manas airport in Bishkek told AFP on condition of anonymity that the plane had been forced to land. "While over the territory of Iran a flight from Dubai to Bishkek with 119 passengers onboard was forced to make an emergency landing by military bomber aircraft," the official said, adding that "a number of foreign passengers were forcibly removed." Jundallah confirmed its leader's arrest on Tuesday in a statement on the blog junbish.blogspot.com. Although the website's authenticity cannot be verified, it has carried statements by the group since 2008. "The leader was arrested with the help of the CIA, and Afghan and Pakistani intelligence services," it said. "Our leader has trained hundreds of youths and the movement will strongly continue on its path and the regime should expect unimaginable attacks." Rigi, Iran's most wanted fugitive accused of launching deadly attacks from Pakistan, had been tracked by Iranian agents for five months, Moslehi said. His capture was "a great defeat for the US and UK," he said at a news conference reported by Iranian state media, accusing the United States and Britain of involvement in "continuous plots" in the region. "He was arrested on a flight from Dubai to Kyrgyzstan," Moslehi said. "It is such a scandal for Dubai in this incident, which shows that the Zionist regime (Israel), by using (the) US and Europe, is seeking to turn the region into a haven for terrorists. "This scandal cannot be covered up," said Moslehi, who held pictures of Rigi he said were taken "inside a US military base in Afghanistan by Iranian agents," and of his identity card. In Washington, a US official dismissed Moslehi's claim that Rigi was at a US base before his seizure as a "totally bogus accusation." Moslehi said Rigi, believed to be in his 30s, was caught in an operation carried out entirely by Iranian agents. "He was arrested without the slightest help of intelligence services of other countries, including those from the region," he said. The intelligence ministry said in a Fars news agency report that Rigi was arrested along with two members of his group. However Iran's official Press TV, quoting an unidentified source speaking on condition of anonymity, said on its English-language website that Rigi was seized along with one of his deputies. It said they "were captured after their plane was brought down by security forces in an airport in the Iranian Persian Gulf city of Bandar Abbas." President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, soon after Rigi's arrest was announced, warned that Iran would hit back if it was attacked. "We will welcome a hand which has sincerely reached out for friendship, but if anywhere in the world a hand is extended for aggression against Iranians, the nation will cut it from the arm," he said in South Khorasan province. Iran claims Rigi has links with the intelligence services of Pakistan, Britain and the United States. It accuses him of launching attacks in Sistan-Baluchestan, the restive province on a major narcotics-smuggling route bordering Afghanistan and Pakistan. Sistan-Baluchestan is home to a significant population of Sunni Baluchis and is a hotbed of insurgency against the Islamic republic's Shiite majority. In October 2009, Jundallah claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in the provincial town of Pisheen that killed 42 people, including seven Revolutionary Guards commanders and several tribal leaders. Soon after the bombing, Guards chief Mohammad Ali Jafari demanded that Islamabad hand over Rigi because Tehran had "proof" he was backed by Pakistan's intelligence agency. Rigi's brother Abdolhamid is currently on death row in Iran. 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