40,000 suicide bombers ready in Iran

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TEHRAN, Iran — Iran has formed battalions of suicide bombers to strike at British and American targets if the nation’s nuclear sites are attacked. According to Iranian officials, 40,000 trained suicide bombers are ready for action.

The main force, named the Special Unit of Martyr Seekers in the Revolutionary Guards, was first seen last month when members marched in a military parade, dressed in olive-green uniforms with explosive packs around their waists and detonators held high.

Dr. Hassan Abbasi, head of the Centre for Doctrinal Strategic Studies in the Revolutionary Guards, said in a speech that 29 Western targets had been identified: “We are ready to attack American and British sensitive points if they attack Iran’s nuclear facilities.” He added that some of them were “quite close” to the Iranian border in Iraq.

In a tape recording heard by The Sunday Times, Abbasi warned the would-be martyrs to “pay close attention to wily England” and vowed that “Britain’s demise is on our agenda.”

At a recruiting station in Tehran recently, volunteers for the force had to show their birth certificates, give proof of their address and tick a box stating whether they would prefer to attack American targets in Iraq or Israeli targets.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned last Friday that Israel was heading toward “annihilation.” He was speaking at a Tehran conference on Palestinian rights aimed at promoting Iran as a new Middle Eastern superpower.

According to western intelligence documents leaked to The Sunday Times, the Revolutionary Guards are in charge of a secret nuclear weapons program designed to evade the scrutiny of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Alireza Jafarzadeh, a former spokesman for National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), an opposition group, said a secret, parallel military program was under way. According to sources inside Iran, the Revolutionary Guards were constructing underground sites that could be activated if Iran’s known nuclear facilities were destroyed.

The NCRI is the political wing of the Mujaheddin-e-Khalq, which is deemed a terrorist organization in Britain and America. However, much of its information is considered to be “absolutely credible” by western intelligence sources after Jafarzadeh revealed the existence of the Natanz plant in 2002.

Within the past year, 14 large and several smaller projects have been created, according to Jafarzadeh. Several are designed to be nuclear factories; others are for the storage of weapons, he claimed.

MrJoeSoap

Are there any other sources on this other than Fox, do you know?

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http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/706257.html
http://news.google.ie/news?hl=en&ned=en_ie&q=40%2C000+suicide+bombers+ready&btnG=Search+News

MrJoeSoap

Cheers. Pretty scary thought that so many people are so devoted to their Religion as to murder non-believers and themselves.

"The Root of all Evil" theory comes into play again I suppose.

spooydermot

The Fox article is pretty much a carbon copy of the Sunday Times article except for the paragraph:

"One of the leaked reports, dating from February this year, confirms that President George W Bush is preparing to strike Iran. “If the problem is not resolved in some way, he intends to act before leaving office because it would be ‘unfair’ to leave the task of destroying Iran’s nuclear facilities to a new president,” the document says."

I wonder what the thinking in editing that from the piece was? Not suggesting any conspiracy theories, but we know how Fox can be when it comes to pinning anything on the current administration, i.e. perhaps not liking the idea that Bush has been considering strinking Iran for some time, bearing in mind the front cover of the Guardian from saturday which spoke of Britsh officers taking part in war games to simulate an invasion of Iran back in 2004.

solas

cnn reports 200 [edit]mis read..goes onto say 40,000
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/04/16/iran.wrapup.reut/index.html

MrSinn

I watched a program recently that suggested that there is already a(secret) war happening in Iran,it never said anything about suiside bombers,suiside bombers are just a safe guess by cheap media when it comes to the middle east,its like predicting a demo in france when new legislation is proposed

jrey1981

Murdochs News Corp is generally pro-Israeli in its coverage, and usually takes the establishment line.

Says it all really.

flogen

indeed jrey, discount Sunday Times and Fox from the get-go.

Wouldn't be surprised if this were true all the same; Iran will strike back but they couldn't attack by "conventional" means in the UK or USA, they'll probably move towards Iraq, Saudi and Kuwait to hit their bases, they're a big enough player in the Arab world and they could put serious pressure on the above three to force the US out of the region; they probably won't touch Israel though.
Actually, scratch that.. they shouldn't attack israel because they'd be destroyed, but they might

joebhoy1916

http://today.reuters.com/tv/videoStory.aspx?isSummitStory=False&storyId=04343b5eff2b3f358364effc9269c4380ead7478

Go on the Iranians.

MrJoeSoap

"Go on" why? You support suicide bombings?

jrey1981

Iran would probably hit the west where it hurts, through attacks on Saudi & Kuwait, which would send oil prices sky high and inflict lasting economic damage

joebhoy1916

Why would they attack them.
Funny how oil prices are going
up at a time when the US has a larger
stockpile than ever. Wonder
where they got all that oil? :rolleyes:

fly_agaric

joebhoy1916 wrote:

Go on the Iranians.

Incredible.
Why are you wasting your precious jihad-time posting here - go read kavkazcentre! Better yet, why don't you go and "jine up" to help the "bruvas"?

MrJoeSoap

joebhoy1916 wrote:

Why would they attack them.
Funny how oil prices are going
up at a time when the US has a larger
stockpile than ever. Wonder
where they got all that oil? :rolleyes:

So you support suicide bombers from your comfortable position in front of your PC? I might have known with a name including "Bhoy" and "1916". :rolleyes: How about you blow yourself up for that cause?

Yes, this US administration is amongst the worst the world has seen to date. The solution is not to kill and injure thousands of innocent people because they have the misfortune to live in the US or Britain and be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

bonkey

Didn't Iraq (or some group supporting Iraq, such as Hezbollah) make a similar claim prior to the invasion of Iraq???

Hobbes

I'm just curious how many of each country are signed up to die for thier country if it was ever attacked? Pretty sure it would be high all around.