| Submit your comments on this article | |
| Syria-Lebanon-Iran | |
| Iran group announces suicide-attacker battalion | |
| 2006-05-27 | |
The group, called the Committee for the Glorification of Martyrs of the Global Islamic Movement, made the announcement at Tehran's main cemetery where hundreds of supporters had gathered. "Every six months we sign up volunteers. Now we have 55 000 of them. Then we choose the volunteers and divide them up into battalions," spokesperson Mohammad Mohammadi told AFP. The latest to get three months of training to be "ready for death", he explained, was battalion number five, which numbered 500 people. Mohammadi said 30% of all volunteers were women. The group insists it is independent, although it frequently appears at regime-sponsored events. Nevertheless, the group has largely been dismissed by observers -- and played down by many Iranian officials -- as a way for ordinary Iranians to symbolically vent their anger at Israel and the West. When volunteers sign up to join the group, they can choose to attack British author Salman Rushdie, who sentenced to death by Iran's revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989 over his book The Satanic Verses, or join an operation against Israel or foreign invaders. "I want to defend Islam, so I signed up for all three," enthused one volunteer, 27-year-old Meghdad Hamedinia. "All the American presidents are rascals. I'll give my life for Islam." A 22-year-old female volunteer, who was wearing the all-black and all-covering chador, said she was also "ready to go to Palestine". "According to our religion, everywhere where Muslims are oppressed, we have to go and help them," said the would-be suicide attacker, who preferred not to give her name. | |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #11 Another Radic declaration of war disguised as defense of Islam - China wants only Taiwan [Iran = Israel, etal.] back, ergo it has named beyond-Taiwan island chains in WESTPAC CENTPAC and EASTPAC as part of its present and future scope of influence and power projection vv America, i.e. are future Chinese territories, like 1/2-plus of CONUS-NORAM. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-05-27 21:17 |
| #10 In theory, these guys die for Allah. But in reality, who do they really die for? Charismatic leaders. It's one thing to die for the Ayatollah Khomeini, who was a giant among Shiite clerics, before the clerics ruined Iran's economy. It's quite another thing to die for this nonentity Ahmadinejad. This is a Potemkin battalion, put on show to gull the Western infidel. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2006-05-27 17:58 |
| #9 the MM's are afraid to put loaded weapons in the hands of the little people. Never know when they might start thinking for themselves. How many bullets do you think Chavez is distributing to each of his peasant militia....2? 4? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-05-27 15:42 |
| #8 how bout trying too fire a weapon instead of blowing yourself up. wouldn't that make more sense too civilized ppl? |
| Posted by: Greamp Elmavinter1163 2006-05-27 14:40 |
| #7 The suicide brigades is an old chestnut from the warring days with Saddam. Throwing bodies worked well for them then. It's all part of their morbid, loony, psych-opns. Culture of death indeed. |
| Posted by: Captain America 2006-05-27 14:24 |
| #6 They all have these killer preaching schedules to keep up with ... |
| Posted by: lotp 2006-05-27 13:01 |
| #5 "..no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. You won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country." -- General George S. Patton Do high-ranking mullahs ever lead these suicide battalions? Or are they simply too busy with paperwork? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2006-05-27 12:43 |
| #4 islamofascism == insanity |
| Posted by: anymouse 2006-05-27 12:10 |
| #3 These morons are still after Salman Rushdie??! GET A F*CKING LIFE!!! |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2006-05-27 12:07 |
| #2 Death cult. Because dying as a islamist is preferable to living as one. |
| Posted by: Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-05-27 11:37 |
| #1 "According to our religion, everywhere where Muslims are oppressed, we have to go and help them," said the would-be suicide attacker Charity begins at home, honey. |
| Posted by: Danielle 2006-05-27 11:30 |