Posted on 04/29/2006 10:17:44 AM PDT by Mount Athos
Eight fundamentalist Islamist organizations have received large sums of money in the last month from the Iranian intelligence services, as part of a project to strike U.S military and economic installations across the Middle East Asharq Al-Awsat has learned.
The plan, which also includes the carrying out of suicide operations targeting US and British interests in the region, as well as their Arab and Muslim allies, in case Iran is attacked, was drawn up by a number of experts guerilla warfare and terrorist operations, and was revealed by a senior source in the Iranian armed forces' joint chief of staff headed by the veterinary doctor Hassan Firouzabadi,
The source added that the forces of the Revolutionary Guards al Quds Brigades, under Brigadier General Qassim Suleimani is responsible for coordinating and providing logistical support for the groups taking part in the execution of the plan, codenamed al Qiyamah the Islamic word for "Judgment Day".
The plan includes three steps, which Asharq al Awsat has examined in earlier reports. The source gave more details about how the plan will be implemented. He said, Most of Irans visitors in the last four months, including the leaders of revolutionary groups in Iraq, Palestine and Lebanon, as well as the heads of Hezbollah cells in the Persian Gulf and Europe and North America were asked, when they met with the Iranian intelligence minister Gholamhossein Mohseni Ezhei and his aides: are you ready to defend the Islamic revolution and vilayat e faqih? If you agree to take part in the great jihad, what would you need to be ready for the great fight?
Amongst the leaders who visited were the head of one of the Iraqi armed group who was very clear and honest. He said his men would transform Iraq into a hell for the Americans if Iran were attacked.
The source also said that the military training camps of the Guards were opened for the fighters of the Mehdi army in Iran to receive the necessary training. Iran had also increased its financial assistance to Moqtada al Sadr to more than 20 million dollars.
The same applied to Islamic Jihad in Palestine which has received large sums of money, large quantities of arms and military training for its cadres in Isfahan, including street fighting methods.
As for the Lebanese Hezbollah, several loads of arms have been sent to; they include rockets, explosives, and guided missiles. Hezbollah's arsenal includes more than 10 thousand rockets short-range rockets and missiles including Fajr, Nour, Arash, Hadid.
An estimated 80 members underwent private training last year on how to carry out suicide operations from the air (through the use of kite planes) and undersea operations using submarines.
While denying that Hamas had joined the list of organizations ready to help Iran in its likely war with the U.S, the source indicated that the external success of the movement, which enjoys considerable Iranian support both financial and military, was strengthened following the latest visit by its leaders to Tehran. This was translated in the Palestinian masses support for Iran, against Israel and the United States .
According to Iran, the latest military plan includes:
1- A missile strike directly targeting the US bases in the Persian Gulf and Iraq , as soon as nuclear installations are hit.
2- Suicide operations in a number of Arab and Muslim countries against US embassies and missions and US military bases and economic and oil installations related to US and British companies. The campaign might also target the economic and military installations of countries allied with the United States .
3- Launch attacks by the Basij and the Revolutionary Guards and Iraqi fighters loyal to Iran against US and British forces in Iraq , from border regions in central and southern Iraq .
4- Hezbollah to launch hundreds of rockets against military and economic targets in Israel .
According to the source, in case the US military attacks continue, more than 50 Shehab-3 missiles will be targeted against Israel and the al Quads Brigades will give the go-ahead for more than 50 terrorists cells in Canada, the US and Europe to attack civil and industrial targets in these countries.
What about the last stage in the plan?
Here, the Iranian source hesitated before saying with worry; this stage might represent the beginning of a world war, given that extremists will seek to maximize civilian casualties by exploding germ and chemical bombs as well as dirty nuclear bombs across western and Arab cities.
"Notably absent on the list is any mention of an attack on US soil."
check again:
"casualties by exploding germ and chemical bombs as well as dirty nuclear bombs across western and Arab cities."
"Western" does not necessarily include the US. It could just mean Europe.
These guys really need to cut back on their recreational drug use.
I am not sure that lower polls means war, I would think that higher polls would mean public support of his actions, a blind obedience sort of thing, while war under an unpopular president would send his polls to the floor if there is no direct confrontation or action.
They speak Farsi. (Most of them) Iranian is a nationality. Ethnicly most are Persian.
The Iranian joint chiefs of staff is headed by a Camel Doctor? ROTFLMAO.
Unfortunately we don't. The MOAB was never put into production, although some of the prototypes were reported to have been deployed to Southwest Asia, but AFAIK, were never used. We do have, or had, other interesting goodies. Various Fuel Air Explosives (although all seem to have been withdrawn from service and destroyed during the time of the Toon.) for relatively soft surface targets, and this little gem, GBU-24 w/BLU-116 Advanced Penetrator Warhead for the buried targets.
I know. I just wanted him to be aware of the bigger and better stuff that we have available now.
President Bush can't be reelected anyway, what does he care about polls, either way? What he may care about is "legacy". He doesn't want to end up like the 'toon, with opportunities not taken being remembered more than his actual accomplishments, (which of course the 'toon didn't have).
Maybe we should pull a Kaiser Soze and take these installations out ourselves before busting a cap in the hoodlums.
Iran is the mouthpiece for other nations. And I put Syrai at the top of that list.
Well said!
Perhaps the impact will be on the American people who can rise up to support an Administration with a spine and a set.
Boy, how true is your tagline!
That pathetic excuse for a Commander in Chief has been responsible for more hate, discontent and deaths through his sheer stupidity and incompetence than any other US President in history.
What I find utterly amazing is how even among conservatives, there seems to be a reluctance to make any mention of Jimmy Carter being responsible for the current Islamofascist regime in Iran being in power. Nobody else pulled the rug out from under the Shah of Iran but Jimmy.
But do we hear this on Fox News? No. The only notable conservative voice that we've heard anything about this from lately has been Michael Reagan, God Bless him.
Now try to imagine if you will, how the Shah (and his son, who would have inherited the Peacock Throne after the Shah's death) would have been a force for stability in the Middle East if the Assahollah Khomeini had died in exile in France (totally appropo too), the radicals had never seized power, and the U.S. and Iran had remained allies to this day. I daresay that even Saddam Hussein would not have been the threat to the region that he evolved into because the Shah was the U.S. bulldog on the block who would have kept Saddam in check. Kuwait would never have been invaded. The Straits of Hormuz would be under the control of a solid friend of the U.S., Israel would not be faced with any threat from Tehran, as the Shah had no quarrel with them, and the entire course of history would have been different.
But because of that one incompetent, ignorant, arrogant SOB Carter, the Middle East descended into the cauldron of terrorism that is threatening to set the whole damn world on fire.
Once again, and never can it be said too many times, "thanks Jimmy Carter, for NOTHING!"
Yes...there are at least five instances that make me ashamed of my country's foreign policy:
1.) Throwing Chiang Kai Shek to the dogs after WWII.
2.) Bay of Pigs
3.) Leaving South Vietnam without support after we pulled out.
4.) Treatment of the Shah of Iran.
5.) Inciting Shiites to rebellion under Saddam Hussein, then turning our backs on them when they did.
Even if it doesn't, it send that all important message: "threaten us, and we might take you seriously."
Total war vs a nation...would it last a week?
That may be what they call it. We should call it "glass parking lot day" (for those un-informed, a glass parking lot is what remains after a nuke blast on the desert countries)
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