Iranian Suicide Bombers
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James Joyner | Thursday, December 2, 2004 |
200 pledge willingness to carry out suicide attacks against Americans, Israelis (CBC)
Some 200 masked young men and women gathered at a Tehran cemetery Thursday to pledge their willingness to carry out suicide bomb attacks against Americans in Iraq and Israelis. The ceremony was organized by the Headquarters for Commemorating Martyrs of the Global Islamic Movement, a shadowy group that has since June been seeking volunteers for attacks in Iraq and Israel. A spokesman, Ali Mohammadi, described Thursday’s group as the “first suicide commando unit,” though another official has claimed members already have carried out attacks in Israel. “Sooner or later we will bury all blasphemous occupiers of Islamic lands,” Mohammadi said.
Sunday, Iran’s deputy interior minister for security affairs told reporters the movement had no official sanction and said such groups could operate only “as long as their ideas are limited to theory.” The group, though, has the backing of some prominent hard-line Iranian politicians. The deputy minister, Ali Asghar Ahmadi, did not say if the government had tried to crack down on the military style training the group claims to offer or whether officials believed any of its volunteers had crossed into Iraq or into Israel.
Iran has had no diplomatic ties with the United States since the 1979 Islamic revolution ousted the U.S.-backed shah. But it says it has no interest in fomenting instability in Iraq and that it tries to block any infiltration into Iraq by insurgents – while pleading that its porous borders are hard to police.
Insert appropriate “religion of peace” commentary here.
About the Author: James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. He lives just outside the Beltway in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife and infant daughter.
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What I find appalling is that it is parents who are doing this to their children. I'm completely disgusted.
A father's love for his daughter is so....touching.
If Dad thinks it's such a great idea, why isn't he leading by example? Most parents I know would die *for* their children, not ask them to be first in line for an ammo-belt. Truly psychotic.
The only thing missing from that photo is a thought balloon over the girl's head:
"My father wants me dead."
I know everyone's going to get mad at me, but my first thought was, "why didn't either we or the Israelis bomb this ceremony?" After all, these people just publicly announced their intention to murder Israelis and/or Americans.
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