Posted on 05/28/2004 2:36:10 PM PDT by Rutles4Ever
An official of Iran's Revolutionary Guards has threatened the United States and other Western nations with suicide and missile attacks aimed at 29 sensitive sites.
"Our missiles are now ready to strike at their civilization, and as soon as the instructions arrive from leader ['Ali Khamenei], we will launch our missiles at their cities and installations," the Revolutionary Guard adviser said in a speech reported by the London Arabic-language daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, according to Middle East Media Research Institute, or MEMRI.
He also threatened to "take over" Britian.
The paper reported "an Iranian intelligence unit has established a center called The Brigades of the Shahids of the Global Islamic Awakening to replace the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Department of Liberation and Revolutionary Movements, which had been in charge of helping and training revolutionary forces across the world."
A source close to the Revolutionary Guards intelligence confirmed confirmed the establishment of a new office that has begun registering the names of suicide volunteers to be sent to Iraq, Palestine and Lebanon, the London paper said.
In a tape of the speech obtained by the paper, the official spoke of Tehran's "secret strategy" aimed at taking over the Arab and Muslim countries by means of helping revolutionary forces and organizations."
The official, identified only with the initials H.A., has published a number of works on exporting the Islamic revolution and struggling against the U.S.
"In his speech at a secret conference attended by students who are members of the Ansar Hizbullah movement at Al-Hussein University, the official harshly criticized reformist President Muhammad Khatami and his "dubious idea" of dialogue between civilizations.
"We do not want to take over the British Embassy, since [the British] have already cleared the embassy of documents; we must take over Britain [itself]," he said.
"The West sees us as terrorists, and depicts our strategy as terrorism and repression," the officials continued. "Had our youth agreed to Khatami's teachings and interpretations, it would never have fought the arrogance [U.S.], and would never have defended the holy places -- because Khatami speaks always of being conciliatory, of patience, and of rejecting terrorism, while we defend [the line of] toughness and war against the enemies of revolutionary Islam. I take pride in my actions that cause anxiety and fear to the Americans."
He continued:
"'Haven't the Jews and the Christians achieved their progress by means of toughness and repression? We have a strategy drawn up for the destruction of Anglo-Saxon civilization and for the uprooting of the Americans and the English. "Our missiles are now ready to strike at their civilization, and as soon as the instructions arrive from leader ['Ali Khamenei], we will launch our missiles at their cities and installations.
"Our motto during the war [in Iraq] 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.
Later in his speech, the official declared "the global infidel front is a front against Allah and the Muslims, and we must make use of everything we have at hand to strike at this front, by means of our suicide operations or by means of our missiles. There are 29 sensitive sites in the U.S. and in the West. We have already spied on these sites and we know how we are going to attack them."
He emphasized, "If Israel dares attack the [nuclear] installations at Bushehr, our losses will be very low, because [only] one structure will be destroyed -- while we have means of attacking Israel's nuclear facilities and arsenals such that no trace of Israel will remain."
The previous day, according to MEMRI, Iranian sources had statements on the same issue.
At a ceremony marking the four-year anniversary of Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon, Ali Akbar Makhatashemi-Pour, reformist MP and secretary-general of the International Committee for the Support of the Palestinian Intifada, called on Muslim countries to open their borders with Iraq to troops of Muslim martyrdom bombers.
"We, the Muslim countries, must create a storm front against the U.S. and Israel," he said. "The half-million member organization that was created in Beirut [Hezbollah] is not sufficient. Many young Muslims are willing to carry out martyrdom operations against the American Crusaders."
According to the Iranian reformist paper Sharq, the Persian-language Ruydad website cited Hezbollah-Iran activist Forouz Rajaii-Far saying "martyrdom operations are the only option to expel the Americans and British from Iraq."
Rajaii-Far said a Basij activist from Elm Vasonaat University in Iran acknowledged a group calling itself the "To Karbala Battalion" was sent Thursday to Karbala to fight the coalition forces.
So many spies have been caught photographing the refineries in Texas that it doesn't even make the news anymore.
The Cold War
If you keep talking sweet like that I don't know what I am going to do.
And for those who think it is "wrong" to call this "the Crusades", Christianity has gone through a reformation. We can ally with Jews, Buddists, Hindus, and others to stop the invasion of violent Islam.
Some still think it was wrong to push them out of Spain (which Islam conquored and tried to establish as a Western headquarters). Some muslims even appealed to the Vatican recently asking to be permitted to worship at a Catholic church that was a mosque hundreds of years ago (and still incorporates part of that structure). Of course that mosque was constructed on the site of a former Catholic church...
These ragheads are sh*ttin' razor blades. Their populace is spring loaded to the revolution position and we're poised to strike the match. They're wearing those worry beads down to the string.
Remind me to tell you about the dream I had about you.
Ooops got to go,someone at front door.
be back soon.
World War II came out of World War I. World War III/the Cold War came right out of World War II (the Soviets who had allied with us to defeat fascism quickly sought control of Europe and other lands).
We have been in conflict with Islamofascists long before the fall of the Soviet Union.
I can agree to not call the Cold War World War III if we can agree that it is wrong to call any future conflicts (that are not of European origin) World War xxx.
At what point did these conflicts go from being named "the big war" to World War I, World War II? Other wars were named for the regions or persons involved. The Civil War in the US was a civil war but there have been other civil wars around the world. We may some day see Civil War II in America.
"Throw down Boy.
Well are you going to do something or just stand there and bleed?"
I hope the dream was a pleasant one.
Well, my point in calling it WWIII is an analytical guess, based on gut reaction and historical analysis....
...all of which is quite subjective. Nonetheless, it is my instinct.
I also hope I'm wrong.
I would add, on further review of your post, that WWI was 'The Great War' until a consensus developed on the name 'WWII' for the 1939-45 conflict.
BUMP
Paging Pres. George Bush...pick up the red phone, please. I think we can officially can the "Islam is a religion of peace" farce now.
Found a 2003 internet reference to "The Leader of the Muslim Ummah, Imam Khamenei(HA)" from Tehran, Islamic Iran, April 16, 2003, IRNA
Once it becomes clear that the government is unable to cover all the bases to protect the population, the population will be required to protect themselves. I would not expect the government to do what I wouldn't do for myself. The people empowered the government to perform certain tasks. If the government is unable to perform those things, we must perform the task ourselves until the threat is removed -- permanently. The government will be needing our help and we will be needing the help of government where necessary.
Time to set aside rage and fury and start doing some serious planning. It's time to open the armories and start issuing weapons to every able-bodied. That's why we built them. If the world is to survive this threat to ciliization, America must lead the way by showing other nations how to clean house.
And no, I don't think I'm over-reacting. We are at war on many levels already and we've already lost the propaganda war waged by those who are not our primary enemy. There is no reason to expect that we will not be at war on a physical level in this country. We must have the mind-set for it well in advance, if it isn't already too late.
Something that you said may be the current message from the enemy contained in its warning to us, quote:
"Here's what we can do to you and to Israel. Think carefully before deciding your next move."
I would turn that around and tell the enemy to think long and hard before deciding its next move. It could prove fatal to them on a global scale -- but first and foremost in America.
Well, that was a warning, right?
Don't forget he'll be calling for an emergency Security Counsel Meeting
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