10,000 in Iran said signing up for suicide missions

[BEER980]

Recruiters: 10,000 in Iran said signing up for suicide missions
By Reuters

TEHRAN - Thousands of Iranians have signed up for suicide attacks on Israel, U.S.-led forces in Iraq and British author Salman Rushdie, a recruiting group said yesterday. Shi'ite Iran has strongly condemned the occupation of Iraq and voiced its outrage at damage to shrines in the holy cities of Najaf and Karbala. "Some 10,000 people have registered their names to carry out martyrdom operations on our defined targets," said Mohammad Ali Samadi, a spokesman for the Committee for the Commemoration of Martyrs of the Global Islamic Campaign.

But he said the group would need the green light from Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to launch the attacks. The independent group said it started to register Iranian men and women prepared to carry out the attacks after Friday prayers last week and sent forms to religious universities. "Our targets are mainly the occupying American and British forces in the holy Iraqi cities, all the Zionists in Palestine and Salman Rushdie," he said.

The father of Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, condemned Rushdie to death in 1989 for alleged blasphemy in his novel "The Satanic Verses." "It is not our fault that the Zionists have brought their wives and children to the occupied territories and have turned them into shields for themselves," he added, when asked about the killing of civilians. "Salman Rushdie is the only non-military target for us, because we believe his attack against Islam was much worse that a military assault," the spokesman said.

Hard-line cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati urged worshipers at Friday prayers in Tehran to attack U.S. and British interests. "It is the duty of every Muslim to threaten U.S. and British interests anywhere," he said.

Although Iran's reformist President Mohammad Khatami said in 2001 the death sentence against Rushdie should be seen as lifted, hard-liners still occasionally call for his murder.


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[rainstorm]

hand em all a cyanide capsule

[Aquawind]

hand em all a cyanide capsule

No doubt..

[BEER980]

Well that is a lot of indivdual attacks on our troops. Iran is trying really hard to be the next target on our list for some reason.

[Lindaloo]

I thought IRAN has been on our list for years.

[streetsoldier]

Geographically, Iran wouldn't an easy target; it's the size of Afghanistan AND Iraq put together, with some to spare, and most of the country is a mountainous nightmare for conventional troops.

More, it is a perfect spot for uniting ALL the "Als" (Al Aqsa, Al Qaida, you-name-it), as it straddles Khyrgistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Khazakstan, Chechnya, and borders Turkey...every possible place which could insert fighters, as the terrain favors guerrilla warfare.

It's only weak point would be its Persian Gulf coastline, re: coalition forces; but once we move inland, it's "their ball park".