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Iran preparing Suicide Squads to strike Israel and US
More than 400 young men and women have volunteered to carry out suicide bombing attacks against Americans in Iraq and targets
in Israel, a militant group said Wednesday.
An Iranian woman sits with her son during a
registration event for martyrdom-seeking operations abroad organized by an independent hardline group, Association of Islamic
Martyrdom-Seekers of the World, in southern Tehran, April 20, 2005. The inscription on the child's headband reads ‘There is
no God but Allah’ The Society for the Defence of Palestinian Nation organized the event gathering some 300 women and men, of
whom about 200 signed the registration, declaring their symbolic willingness to carry out attacks against Israel and the US.
(Photo credits : LGF/REUTERS/Raheb
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The recruiting effort was detailed during a ceremony organized by the Headquarters for Commemorating Martyrs of the Global
Islamic Movement, a shadowy group that has been seeking attackers for nearly a year.
The Iranian government has distanced itself from the organization. But the event was attended by Mahdi Rahimian, the head of
the Martyr's Foundation and the Imam Khomeini Relief Committee, both quasi-government organizations run by hard-liners loyal
to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
"Some 440 volunteers, most of them women, signed up today," said group spokesman Mohammad Ali Samadi.
Samadi, said members have already carried out suicide attacks inside Israel against Israeli military targets. But his group
is not among those that have claimed responsibility for any previous attacks there.
Iran's hard-line rulers have long called for the destruction of Israel. Iranians are barred from traveling to Israel and
Samadi suggested that his suicide bombers secretly infiltrate the Jewish state.
Story Credits: AP News
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