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Iranian girls find job to die for
MORE than 400 young women and men in Iran have agreed to carry out suicide bomb attacks against US troops in Iraq and Israelis.They volunteered during a meeting yesterday organised by the Headquarters for Commemorating Martyrs of the Global Islamic Movement, a shadowy group that has sought volunteers since June for attacks in Israel and Iraq. Spokesman Mohammed Ali Samadi said members of his group had already carried out suicide attacks inside Israel against Israeli military targets. Samadi said "a few" of his fighters had been killed in the attacks. His claims could not be independently confirmed. The group is not among those claiming responsibility for suicide bombings inside Israel. Many of those claims are made in videotaped farewells from the bombers, and the perpetrators for all attacks have been identified. None came from Samadi's group. The Iranian Government has distanced itself from the organisation. But yesterday's ceremony was attended by Mahdi Rahimian, the head of the Martyr's Foundation and the Imam Khomeini Relief Committee, both quasi-government organisations run by hardliners loyal to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The volunteers agreed to one of three choices: train for suicide attacks against Israelis; for suicide attacks against US troops in Iraq; or to assassinate British author Salman Rushdie, who was forced into hiding after the late Ayatollah Khomeini ordered Muslims to kill him. Samadi said about 440 volunteers, most of them women, signed up on Wednesday, local time. Some of the would-be attackers were clerics wearing headbands with the inscription "There is no Allah but the Almighty". He said his movement, which began recruiting volunteers last June, had already selected several thousand of them for training. Iran's hardline rulers have long called for the destruction of Israel. Iranians are barred from travelling to Israel and Samadi suggested that his suicide bombers would secretly infiltrate the Jewish state. Posted by: God Save The World 2005-04-21 |
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