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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
100,000 students sign up list for martydom seeking operations
2009-01-21
Head of Student Basij Organization Reza Seraj said on Tuesday that 100,000 students have signed up to launch martyrdom seeking operations.

"Based on latest statistics, 100,000 students have signed up the list in `Labayk Ya Khamenei' Martyrdom Seeking Battalions," Seraj told a group of students outside former US Embassy in Tehran, dubbed as `Den of Spies', on Tuesday.

Seraj said students are ready to fully obey the Supreme Leader of Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's order for contribution to Gaza reconstruction.
Posted by:tipper

#8  100,000 potential martyrs, ya say? Whoa!! That's a lot of personnel to handle. Yer gonna need some help processing them all. May I suggest a Powder River S2C Curved Alley? Take a look and tell me that it ain't the prettiest little piece of processing equipment ya ever seen?

S2CrvdAlley
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2009-01-21 19:41  

#7  That is a lot of sploadadopes. For efficiency why not invite them to the stadium and just blow them up. Give their families the perfunctory martyrdom certificate. Everyone's happy. This would save the world a lot of trouble.
Posted by: JohnQC   2009-01-21 18:42  

#6  Safety in numbers. Maybe they think they'll never get the call.
Posted by: gorb   2009-01-21 18:09  

#5  well they should start training with live ammo very soon in iran so secrecy doesn't get out
Posted by: rabid whitetail   2009-01-21 15:16  

#4  Based on what I've read on the underground Iranian student sites and the supposed numbers of young people who believe the regime to be oppressive, this might be a cheap & easy way for a 'dissenting' young person to clandestinely immigrate, too. Once they get to somewhere outside of Persia, they may very well 'forget' what they've been sent to do. Don't know if there would be some Iranian security type standing behind them the whole way with a weapon, however.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2009-01-21 15:00  

#3  In a more civilized culture, these misguided souls would be "5150"ed, put under 72 hour suicide watch and given some anti-depressants.

It is cheaper to just give them some aged C-4 and a blasting cap. It is also cheaper than a fighter jet with a bomb or a rocket.
Posted by: James Carville   2009-01-21 10:46  

#2  Under the Mad Mullahs the sucicide rate must be enormous hence the volunteers!!!!
Posted by: Paul2   2009-01-21 10:00  

#1  Well, it's one way out of your student loan debts.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2009-01-21 09:50  

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