Posted on 06/15/2004 5:34:28 AM PDT by F14 Pilot
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:42:20 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Beirut, Lebanon, Jun. 15 (UPI) -- Iran reportedly is readying troops to move into Iraq if U.S. troops pull out, leaving a security vacuum.
The Saudi daily Al-Sharq al-Awsat, monitored in Beirut, reports Iran has massed four battalions at the border.
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What's the difference between the Iranian army and Ted Kennedy?
Ted Kennedy has one confirmed American kill.
Are you saying that the middle eastern press can't be trusted. I'm glad we don't have that problem here in the US.
Just shows how all nations in the area fear democracy coming to their doorstep, and will do anything to try to stop it, even something foolish as this.
Tin Foil : That would take a few pallets of tin foil since they don't like Saddam
sik 'em Isreal. . .sik 'em
Yeah there was some talk about Iraqi air power before the first GW but not a one of their planes made it off the ground. We shut down any air threat immediately.
Then it will be time to introduce the Iranians to the power of the Daisy Cutter.
Roadkill!!!
LOL Thought some of their clerics did.
Here!
I haven't seen anything on the Fox News, CNN, UPI, AP, Drudge, and Reuters websites about this.
Daisy Cutter time.
sounds like a target rich environment.
And because of the no fly zones we had most, if not all, of their AAA sites mapped and pinpointed. We do not have that luxury in Iran.
I'm sure they are being monitored by our satellites.
From the Jerusalem Post online edition
Jun. 8, 2004 19:46 | Updated Jun. 8, 2004 19:58
Iran recruiting "Army of Martyrs"
By MATTHEW GUTMAN
Official application form for "martyrdom operations"
Iran has registered at least 10,000 young volunteers for "martyrdom operations,"
against US forces in Iraq and Israel, according to the recruitment group, the Committee for
the Commemoration of Martyrs of the Global Islamic Campaign.
Salman Rushdie the author of "The Satanic Verses," and the recipient of a death
warrant in absentia by Iran's former leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khumeini,
has also been targeted by the nascent brigade of terrorists calling itself the
"Army of Martyrs of the Global Islamic Campaign."
The London based Arabic daily, al-Sharq al-Awsat reported last week that the
"Army of Martyrs," is operated by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards
[IRG also known as the Pasdaran], and IRG's sub-agencies tasked with intelligence
gathering and the planning of terrorist attacks.
The recruitment of what the "Army of Martyrs," leaders say are thousands of
future "martyrs," i.e. suicide attackers, racked up 10,000 registered volunteers in its first week,
Mohammad Ali Samadi, a spokesman for the Committee for the Commemoration of Martyrs of
the Global Islamic Campaign was quoted by Reuters.
The calls to join the "Army of Martyrs," began at Mosques after Friday prayer two weeks ago,
after which registration forms [See Box at the bottom of this article]
were distributed by the tens of thousands at local Islamic Universities to
prospective male and female suicide attackers.
A senior Israeli intelligence source told the Jerusalem Post Monday that complementing
Iran's imminent nuclear capability are its efforts to infiltrate terrorists, weapons,
or information into the West Bank and Gaza. "There is no way to over-emphasize this danger.
Iran is involved intimately in almost every Hizbullah action."
The IRG also pay-rolls Tanzim and Islamic Jihad cells all over the West Bank and Gaza,
said the Israeli official.
The Martyrs of the Global Islamic Campaign spokesman Samadi explained that
"our targets are mainly the occupying American and British forces in the holy Iraqi cities
[Najaf, Karbala, Kufa, among others], all the Zionists in Palestine, and Salman Rushdie," Reuters reported.
He accused Israel for using "the Zionists," and their children as "human shields
for themselves in the occupied territories."
While the Iranian Regime could recruit "tens of thousands of martyrs,
the regime knows very well that it cannot use all of them for suicide attacks,"
said Safa Ha'eri, editor in chief of the Iranian Press Service, a dissident news agency.
Ha'eri said that "rather than a show of strength this is a demonstration of trouble.
When Mullah's think they are in trouble they pull the martyrs card.
Make no mistake, this is all for public consumption, for the television."
In addition, there is a yawning gap between brainwashing several thousand Iranian
radicals and the enlistment of a nation of 70 million to commit Jihad, added Ha'eri.
In the registration form that has flooded Islamic universities in Tehran,
volunteers are first asked in Farsi to check a box signaling their
"preparedness for carrying out Martyrdom attacks."
The registration form then asks them to check one of three preferred targets:
U.S. occupation forces in Iraq; "the occupiers of Jerusalem,"; and Salman Rushdie.
Towards the end of the form, volunteers are asked whether they would like to
"become an active member of the Army of Martyrs of the Global Islamic Campaign."
"'Our missiles are now ready to strike at their civilization,"
said a senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard official to al-Sharq al-Awsat
"and as soon as the instructions arrive from Leader ['Ali Khamenei],
we will launch our missiles at their cities and installations."
In order to loose the "suicide missiles," the "Army of Martyrs," has to receive
authorization from Iranian Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khameini.
"Our motto during the war (in Iraq)," said the Iranian Revolutionary Guard official
"was: Karbala, we are coming, Jerusalem, we are coming.
And because of Khatami's policies and dialogue between the civilizations,
we have been compelled to freeze our plan to liberate the Islamic cities.
And now we are [again] about to carry out the program."
The closer Israel is to unilateral separation from the Palestinians,
said the intelligence official, the more the incentive Iran and its proxy
Hizbullah will have to stir the pot. With many of the other schemes uncovered,
Hizbullah and Iran are trying to smuggle in unaffiliated foreign terrorists – making it
difficult for the Shin Bet to track them down – for terrorist
attacks inside Israel.
Below is the rough translation of the "Preliminary Registration for Martyrdom Operations"
application from the Islamic Republic of Iran for position of "martyr".
In the Name of God
Preliminary Registration for Martyrdom Operations
I _____________, child of _____________, born 13_______ (Islamic calendar), the City of: _________________
proclaim my preparedness for carrying out martyrdom operations:
___ against the occupiers of the holy sites (referring to Najaf, Karbala, and other places in Iraq.)
___ against the occupiers of (Jerusalem)
___ for carrying out the death sentence of the infidel Salman Rushdie
Also, I would like to become an active member of the Army of Martyrs of the
International Islamic Movement. yes ____, No _____
Contact telephone:
Applicant's address:
Applicant's signature:
That was good!!! LOL
More like 300 to 500. But keep in mind that the media can't tell a battalion from a brigade, or a regiment from a division. So if they meant to say 'brigade', I'd say that 4 brigades could easily total 6 to 8 thousand troops.
Still not enough to get more than a few miles before the Air Force wipes them out.
I've forgotten--how many men in a batallion?
For those in Rio Linda, 4 battalions means 3000-5000 men. Iran's army has about 40 divisions, each with 10 battalions. A quarter of them armored or mechanized, the rest infantry.
Methinks whoever wrote this article is profoundly ignorant of all things military. And I sincerely doubt the units involved were "battalions". If they were, the verb "massed" is a joke.
As a comparison, during the first gulf war (desert storm being the second) Iranian air superiority over the Iraqis was overwhelming.
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