| Submit your comments on this article |
| Syria-Lebanon-Iran |
| Iran openly recruiting suicide bombers |
| 2005-09-09 |
| Do you want to be a suicide bomber? There is one country that allows open recruiting for such adventurers. The Iranian armed forces has established an organization called the "Lovers of Martyrdom Garrison," which will recruit, screen and train suicide bombers, "for attacks on Western targets." The application form, and an English translation, can be seen here. This offer is apparently only open to Iranian citizens. The effort, which has less than two months old, has already attracted over 50,000 applicants. Openly using these fanatics in attacks against Western targets could result in some unpleasant counterattacks against Iran. The Iranians know that if they turn a lot of these volunteers loose outside the country, their origins will be found out. Some of the volunteers will be captured alive, and the Iranians are now aware of how effective Western forensic capabilities are (you can identify an Iranian from DNA analysis body parts.) It's more likely that these fanatical volunteers will be used against internal enemies. Not necessarily as suicide bombers, but as true believers who will do anything for the cause. The Iranians are not the only ones recruiting suicide bombers. In Sri Lanka, the Hindu Tamil Tigers (also known as the LTTE) recruit suicide bombers from among their existing troops (many of whom are kidnapped and brainwashed teenagers). The LTTE were the first to use suicide bombers, and were the most active users until the Palestinian terrorists and al Qaeda began using the tactic more widely after September 11, 2001. The Palestinian terrorists and al Qaeda also recruit suicide bombers, via a network of recruiters. Arab media, in general, tends to speak highly of suicide bombers (calling them martyrs), thus making it easier to recruit more. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #9 Never mind that several of the Islam's greatest kings of antiquity, includ Osama's fav Saladin, forbade or frowned on suicide, espec amongst their armies. Radical Islam's "Army of God/Lions of Jihad" will never be anything more than a bloody nuisance because the army's warriors blow themselves to bits. Radical Islam = Communism = wastes or its available or potential manpower - they have to dev or acquire WMDS/Nukes in order to compensate for the self-destruction of warfighting males, regardless of any war ags America. Radical Islam = Communists' "war/battle zone" strategems emphasis on POLITICAL VICTORY = getting America, etal. to justify their own existence and actions, as oppos to justification caused in and for themselves. WE SHOULD ASK LIBERAL ACADEMIA WHETHER THERE IS SUCH A THING AS "THIRD PARTY-BASED MANIFEST DESTINY" IN THE 21st CENTURY, ala "HELP ME SAVE OR JUSTIFY MYSELF, BUT I STILL GET TO KILL YOU NOW = LATER!? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2005-09-09 22:20 |
| #8 It's more likely that these fanatical volunteers will be used against internal enemies. Not necessarily as suicide bombers, but as true believers who will do anything for the cause. Likely they'll be integrated into the Baseej (volunteers) that are technically under the control of the Revolutionary Guards. Both the Iranian armed forces and the IRGC have drawn the line at quelling civil disorder and uprisings. So the clerics are looking to the ultra-fanatics in the Baseej. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2005-09-09 18:32 |
| #7 This is nothing new. MEMI has been reporting open suicide bomber recruitment for at least since March '03. |
| Posted by: Captain America 2005-09-09 14:36 |
| #6 Y'all miss the good points of this "Recruiting" All we have to do is locate and vaporize the "Training Camp" Even the name is appropriate, "The Lovers Of Martyrdom" surely can't complain about being successfully "Martyred" |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2005-09-09 12:47 |
| #5 That suicide training must be hard on the HR dept. "Ali, next time pull the ripcord a little slower, ok? Ali? oops. Next in line please." |
| Posted by: Steven 2005-09-09 09:45 |
| #4 it's amazing that these ppl's lives are this meaningless and useless |
| Posted by: Uninetle Hupating2229 2005-09-09 08:17 |
| #3 People are dying to become suicide bombers. Applications accepted at the employment office on Grim Reaper Drive. |
| Posted by: Captain America 2005-09-09 05:17 |
| #2 cause and effect. |
| Posted by: Red Dog 2005-09-09 03:42 |
| #1 Proper response for this is "an eye for an eye." Every time an Iranian boomer kills a Westerner, a B-2 should deposit a 2,000 pound JDAM on a mullah or ayatollah. Even though people from that part of the world aren't well versed in cause and effect, the message should begin to seep through after the fourth or fifth vaporized mullah. |
| Posted by: Random thoughts 2005-09-09 01:22 |