.jpg)
Posted on 12/02/2004 10:15:40 AM PST by NYer
Tehran (AsiaNews/Agencies) – Mohammed Ali Samadi, spokesman for the Iran-based ‘Army of Martyrs', announced that his organisation would soon begin operations in Iraq against US troops in Iraq once training for the more than 20,000 volunteer suicide bombers recruited since June is completed.
The first company named after Yahya Ayyash, a member of the Palestinian group Hamas killed by the Israelis, will begin operating in mid-December “in sympathy with the oppressed people of Fallujah”.
Set up by the Committee for the Commemoration of Martyrs of the Global Islamic Campaign, the Army started recruiting terrorists in June of this year. Registration forms for volunteer suicide commandos appeared on Tehran's streets and university campuses. Would-be shahids (martyrs) are asked to choose their martyrdom operations: against the occupiers in Iraq, against the occupiers in Jerusalem (i.e. Israel), or towards implementing the fatwa against Salman Rushdie. In 1989, the ayatollah Khomeini had issued a death sentence against British author for writing the Satanic Verses. In 1998, the Iranian government declared it would not support the fatwa but also said only the person who issued the edict could rescind it. Khomeini died in June 1989.
Speaking in a room decorated with photos of Israeli soldiers' funerals, Samadi said the Army’s purpose was to fill the gap “between revolutionary Iranians and other Muslims in other parts of the world, especially those fighting the Israelis in Palestine. He claimed that “30,000 volunteers have signed up— at least 4,000 in November—, and 20,000 of them have been chosen for training”.
Training is held “in open spaces outside cities” but more often inside, away from prying eyes. “Among those recruited,” Samadi claims, “there are at least 500 minors, the youngest one being seven years old who joined with eight other members of his family”.
Khomeini himself had encouraged young people to volunteer as martyrs (shahids) in the war against Iraq offering their lives clearing minefields for advancing Iranian troops.
“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,” Samadi said. “Volunteers had already carried out suicide operations against military targets inside Israel,” he added, but “the U.S. has not really recognised that we have successfully transferred a good method of resistance to other countries”.
According to London-based Arabic daily, al-Sharq al-Awsat, the Army of Martyrs was founded on June 4, anniversary of Khomeini’s death in Tehran. At the founding there were Zahra Mustafai, Khomeini’s great grand daughter, and Sardar Salamati, head of operations for Iran’s Pasdaran (Revolutionary Guards), who played an important role in the war against Iraq. In the Army’s first week, 10,000 people signed up.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said recently that the group’s campaign to sign up volunteers for suicide attacks had “nothing to do with the ruling Islamic establishment” adding that if “some people do such a thing [it] is the result of their sentiments. It has nothing to do with the government and the system”.
The Army’s first meeting was held in the offices of the Martyrs Foundation, a semi-official organisation that helps the families of those killed in the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war or those killed fighting for the government on other fronts. It drew hard-line lawmaker and former Pasdaran member Mahdi Kouchakzadeh.
“At a time when the US is committing the crimes we see now, deprived nations have no weapon other than martyrdom,” Kouchakzadeh said. “It’s evident that Iran's foreign policy makers have to take the dignified opinions of this group into consideration”
Samadi has denied that the Army of Martyrs has any ties with the Iranian government or al-Qaeda. However, he added that it is a religious obligation for devout Muslims “to defend themselves through all possible means [including] sacrificing life and property.” As Khomeini said, “if an enemy invades Muslim countries, [. . .], we don’t need anybody's permission to fight an enemy that has occupied Muslim lands”. (LF)
Planned obsolescence.
Reminds me of the phrase - Pop goes the weasel.
Nuke then now!
How convenient.
"Captured spies, saboteurs, and terrorists are subject to execution and not internment"
That used to be the punishment. Today however, there is a growing sentiment among many of the bleeding hearts that these people are misguided and don't deserve to die. Me personally, I think that they should be shot and buried in pig entrails.
Mexico seeks greater ties with Iran mullahsMexico is ready for expanding ties with Iran on all areas, notably in economy and trade, the deputy of Mexico's foreign ministry for economic affairs, Irma Avriana said on Friday.
Speaking to the grand seminar on Irano-Mexican economic relations, Avriana said Iran was an important power in the Middle East and" we believe expanding ties with Iran will be in the intersts of every country including Mexico".
Also addressing the audience, the head of Iran's Chamber of Commerce, Alinaghi Khamoushi said Iran enjoyed an economic growth rate of 6.5, adding his chamber tried to strenghten trade bewteen the two countries.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1285190/posts
In view of Iran's effort to kill as many Americans as possible, this is a slap in the face from our "friends" south of the border. Apparently they think they can get away with it.
Looks like a Klan meeting.
"Looks like a Klan meeting."
How nasty of you to insult the Klan like that! :-)
El Presidente Bush: "Si!"
Now Chinese goods pour into Mexico to be relabled "Hecho in Mexico" and shipped to the USA.
The Chinese are running the Panama Canal, Castro's still running Cuber, Venezuela has a communist ruler, Chile is going back to the communists.
Things look very bad and, like I stated the other day on another thread, the USA has to do something so spectacular that it makes our "friends" suck in their breath in amazement that we would do something so bold.
Then, quickly, do something else that just causes them to go goggle-eyed!
I say bomb Iran for starters and do something real scary to the (about to be) reconstituted USSR.
Instead, we'll let the Chinese Commies take over Taiwan and won't lift a finger.
So on the one hand they reach an agreement with Iraqi officials to strengthen border control. Then when this groups leader starts boasting about how many "martyrs" will go to Iraq to kill Americans, all Iranian officials can say is "They are operating outside of the goverment and are not our problem." There must be SOME way to smuggle U.S. special ops forces into Iran like we did before the Iraq war. That way we would have more intelligence on how to exterminate these bozos.
This guy, and his whole family, should be taking a dirt nap SOON. The sooner we do it, and the more obvious that it was us, the better. This needs to be more than a killing of a murderous thug, it needs to be a big, bold message: "Eff with us, and your family dies with you." It'll end this crap quickly. If we don't do it, then the Israelis should.
There is such a sickness in this society. He is actually proud of the fact parents are willing to use their children as disposable bombs. Is it any wonder a society like this...that has no value for human life produces murderous leaders like Saddam?
"There is such a sickness in this society. He is actually proud of the fact parents are willing to use their children as disposable bombs."
That is the difference between Jesus Christ and allah for you. The true God preaches preserving and protecting lives, especially women and children. The other? Destroying them.
There needs to be a very direct and open threat from us to them: You allow them to come over and suicide bomb our troops then we shall bomb all of your presidential palaces and oil-fields. The goverment of Iran might then change it tude real quick.
These people are going to keep screwing around until we hand them their heads. Might as well get 'er done.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.