Posted on 04/21/2005 7:02:58 PM PDT by DoctorZIn
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Militants: Iranians Volunteer for Attacks
Thursday April 21, 2005 1:01 AMAP Photo XHS106
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - More than 400 young men and women have volunteered to carry out suicide bombing attacks against Americans in Iraq and targets in Israel, a militant group said Wednesday.
The recruiting effort was detailed during a ceremony organized by the Headquarters for Commemorating Martyrs of the Global Islamic Movement, a shadowy group that has been seeking attackers for nearly a year.
The Iranian government has distanced itself from the organization. But the event was attended by Mahdi Rahimian, the head of the Martyr's Foundation and the Imam Khomeini Relief Committee, both quasi-government organizations run by hard-liners loyal to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
``Some 440 volunteers, most of them women, signed up today,'' said group spokesman Mohammad Ali Samadi.
Samadi, said members have already carried out suicide attacks inside Israel against Israeli military targets. But his group is not among those that have claimed responsibility for any previous attacks there.
Iran's hard-line rulers have long called for the destruction of Israel. Iranians are barred from traveling to Israel and Samadi suggested that his suicide bombers secretly infiltrate the Jewish state.
- Reuters reports Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon voiced concern on Thursday that the world was growing accustomed to the idea Iran would build a nuclear bomb.
- Reuters reports Unrests continued unabated in the oil rich Iranian province of Khouzestan, with local and international sources putting the death toll at about 30 people.
- Reuters reports that more than 140 people out of 344 arrested in southwest Iran remain in jail.
- The Guardian reports that more than 400 young men and women have volunteered to carry out suicide bombing attacks against Americans.
- Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Telegraph reports that senior British ministers held a series of meetings with the Iranian government hoping for a deal that could have saved the company.
- Michael Ledeen, National Review Online writes, "We're in the midst of a great paradigm shift, which, ... involves both a transformation of the world and of the way we understand it." A Must Read!
- SMCCDI reports that violent clashes continued, yesterday and this evening, in several southern Iranian cities.
- SMCCDI reports that an unprecedented protest action took place at Esfahan's Court building. Employees of the Department of Justice occupied the corridors and protested against their conditions and the Gender Apartheid Policy existing in Iran.
- And finally, WorldNetDaily.com published another excerpt of Dr. Corsi's new book Atomic Iran. It is third and final excerpt. This excerpt is entitled: Horrific scenario: NYC hit by terrorist nuke - 'Atomic Iran' presents second-by-second description of feared attack.
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Send them to their 'virgins". May they all look like Madelaine Albright and Hanan Ashrawi!
Turban renewal.
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