Posted on 09/08/2004 1:58:49 PM PDT by familyop
Iran is seeking volunteers to act as a massive human shield around Iran's nuclear reactor in case of a military attack against the facility.
About two weeks ago Iran announced its plans build more nuclear power plants with Russian help the in southern port city of Bushehr, ignoring US and Israeli concerns that by-products from the plants could be used to manufacture atomic bombs. The US and Israel strongly suspect Iran of seeking nuclear weapons, but Iran has consistently denied the charges.
The Committee for the Commemoration of Martyrs of the Global Islamic Campaign is organizing the human shield campaign to protect Bushehr reactor, the Sydney Morning Herald reported Wednesday.
According to a spokesman for the group, 25,000 people have already signed up to participate in the shield campaign, Army Radio reported.
Iranian President Mohammad Khatami continues to insist that Iran's nuclear program is geared only toward the production of electricity. Iran's Nuclear Energy Council has decided the country needs to produce 7,000 megawatts of electricity through nuclear power plants by 2021 to meet Iran's increasing electricity demands.
Khatami issued a "guarantee" not to seek atomic weapons, and warned Washington that it can't stabilize Iraq and Afghanistan without Teheran's help.
Iran began assembly of an "army of martyrs" in June, recruited by The Committee for the Commemoration of Martyrs of the Global Islamic Campaign. In the first week of its June campaign, officials of the group said 10,000 young volunteers registered for "martyrdom operations" against Israel and US forces in Iraq.
Iran has also issued threats in the past, including one in the past month, that it would destroy Israel's Dimona nuclear reactor if the Jewish state were to attack Iran's nuclear facilities.
"If Israel fires a missile into the Bushehr nuclear power plant, it has to say goodbye forever to its Dimona nuclear facility, where it produces and stockpiles nuclear weapons," said the deputy chief of the elite Revolutionary Guards, Brig.-Gen. Muhammad Baqer Zolqadr, in a statement a month ago.
with AP
Why young volunteers? Is it b/c anybody over, say, 23 is too smart, too clever or too in-the-know to (quote) volunteer (unquote)?
Yup. Most folks 23 or over remember Chernobyl.
Ive got some volunteers,
mike moore, susan sarandon, tom arnold, billary clinton, jimmy carter, john kerry, terry the tool mccauliffe, madonna or whatever the hell her name is now, rosie there is nothign rosie about this bitch personality, all of al qaeda, susan estrich, madeline halfbright, richard reich, dick clark, alec baldwin, p diddy, jadakiss, ben affleck, matt damon, ted i will drown your ass in my oldsmobile kennedy, robert kennedy, the iranian mullahs, tom daschle, nancy pelosi, charlie rangel, the mayor from san francisco whatever that chesters name is, al franken, all of those assholes in Oakland during the Iraq war who blocked supplies from going to our trooops, the losers from moveon.orgy, bruce springstein, dave drop the deuce matthews, woopi whoops there goes what is left of my pathetic career goldberg and I have no eyebrows, tim robbins, the writers from the NY liberal times and the Boston Kerry Globe (NYT owns Boston Globe) I know I forgot so many more but here should be a good start
Seems to me there's something wrong with that picture, any of those jihadists' ineligible for those 72 virgins when they die protecting their power plants?
Like Israel will give a crap!!!
Why should they when they have plenty of school children to use.....Seems to work in Iraq, Afghanistan and Beslan.
Oh......I forgot....They only use somebody else's school children.
The sad part is that they will not end up with "volunteers" but rather political prisoners who have opposed the mullahs and their tyranical government. Of course you won't hear any human rights groups protesting because they are too busy being obsessed with our putting panties on the heads of terrorists.
That is depressing. I thought I'd been hearing that Iranian youth was sick of the mullah-ocracy and was pro-Western.
I'm sure they inflated the number. They might have got a 1,000. In a country the size of Iran theres bound to be that many that would fall for the old 72 virgin trick.
The Bell Curve and the law of large numbers could do that.
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