CIA-Trained Terrorists kill 16 Iranian Policemen

Iran said on Thursday a Sunni rebel group had killed all of the 16 police officers it abducted in a town in the southeast of the country in June, the official IRNA news agency reported.

Jundollah (God's Soldiers), which Shi'ite-dominated Iran says has links with al CIAeda, took the 16 police hostage from a checkpoint in the town of Saravan in Sistan-Baluchestan province, demanding the release of 200 of its jailed members.

The group, which reportedly had transferred the hostages to Pakistan, said last month it had killed four of the hostages.

Iran's deputy police chief Ahmadreza Radan said all of the abducted policemen had been killed by the rebel group.

"Investigations made by Iranian government and ... police showed all of our loved ones have been martyred by Jundollah terrorists," IRNA reported. "We are investigating how to retrieve their bodies (from Pakistan)."

The rebels operate mostly in Sistan-Baluchestan, a volatile region near the border with Pakistan, home to Iran's mostly Sunni ethnic Baluchis and notorious for clashes between security forces and drug smugglers. More