Of course, there is no proof Israel was behind that, but it seemed to coincide with this recent spate of bombings being blamed on Iran.

US President Barack Obama called Prime Minster Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday night to express his condolences for the death of at least seven Israelis in a terror attack in Burgas, Bulgaria earlier in the day.

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Netanyahu thanked Obama for the call, saying that Iran and Hezbollah are waging a terror campaign around the world. "Iran is a global terror state that must face the consequences of its actions," the prime minister said.

http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=278041

The bombing of a coach carrying Israeli tourists was carried out by male suicide bomber with fake US identity documents, officials confirm.

The bomber, killed in the attack, was a young man with long hair who was described as a "caucasian" looking like any other tourist.

He was caught on CCTV walking around the airport dressed in sportswear, shorts and carrying a backpack before carrying out the attack on a coach load of Israeli tourists at the airport in the quiet Black Sea resort city of Burgas, some 400 kilometers (250 miles) east of the capital, Sofia.

The death toll was raised to at least eight after the Bulgarian driver of the bus died in hospital overnight. The other six victims were Israeli citizens and the suspected bomber died in the attack, Bulgaria's Interior minister said on Thursday morning.

http://www.businessinsider.com/bulgaria-bombing-was-carried-out-by-a-caucasian-dressed-like-a-tourist-with-fake-us-documents-2012-7

They seem to have a picture.

so we'll have to see what happens now

A lot of people mouthing off in the usual way, plausibly even, but not too many clear facts. I'm going to let it settle for a bit, I expect there are people out there with a good motive to get to the bottom of it.

fraught with political motives

Any major player in this, like Israel or the US, knows that what they say right now will be dissected, recorded and written down in dozens of reports, expert analyses and even books - written by experts. I think it's likely that they are being very careful and only saying what they have good evidence for. For Iran however, everyone knows that lying and propaganda are their first priority and they have no intelligence reputation to protect. Nothing to lose you could say.

Bulgaria is of course trying to minimize the damage this will cause to its tourism and is denying that the plot was hatched in Bulgaria - which is likely to be true IMO.

(Caution, my opinion on this is worth just about what you paid for it.)

PM takes case to US airwaves, saying Hezbollah, Iran behind Bulgaria attack; FM to lobby EU to put Hezbollah on terror blacklist.

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"Israel launched a campaign Sunday to turn attention to Iran and Hezbollah's involvement in international terrorism, with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu taking his case to the US public and Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman announcing a trip to Brussels to convince the EU to put Hezbollah on its terror blacklist.

Netanyahu, appearing on two Sunday morning news programs – CBS's Face the Nation and Fox News Sunday – said it was clear beyond a doubt that Hezbollah was behind Wednesday's attack in Burgas that killed five Israelis and a Bulgarian bus driver.

"I know, based on absolutely rock solid intelligence, this is Hezbollah, and this is something Iran knows about very, very well," he said. Netanyahu added that Israel knows, without "a shred of doubt," that the operation was carried out "with the encouragement, at the behest and coordination of Iran."

The prime minister said the intelligence information was given to "friendly" intelligence agencies in the world."

http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=278496

http://www.democraticunderground.com/113414457

according to wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qaedat_al-Jihad

or at least you'd think so, however at this point there is much speculation and very little fact, this group is the nearest to anything solid WRT the identity of the perpetrator(s)

Bulgaria dismisses claim of responsibility

Bulgaria's foreign ministry dismissed a statement issued by Qaedat al-Jihad in which the group claims responsibility for the terrorist attack against Israeli tourists in Burgas.

Bulgaria is thus aligning itself with Israeli and US estimates that the attack was carried out by Hezbollah and not a Global Jihad affiliate.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4258513,00.html

and it would dovetail nicely with current events and pressureswouldn't it? here is more

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443570904577542934016954016.html pdated July 22, 2012, 7:26 p.m. ET

it's a dandy article touches all the bases including a reminder of how Mitt Bibi's reputed 'good friend' will be visiting Israel this later in the week

interesting that a bombing from 18 years ago would be used as a comparison though because in more recent history AQ has not done anything like that........oh wait

The good news is that the number killed was relatively small. Hopefully the rumors floating around of a larger scale attack at the Olympics will turn out to be nothing (or will be thwarted).

Whoever is behind this attack seems to want to get the message across that Israelis are not safe when traveling overseas.