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| Iran sets up human shields for Bushehr |
| 2004-09-09 |
| Iran is seeking volunteers to act as a massive human shield around Iran's nuclear reactor in case of a military attack against the facility. About two weeks ago Iran announced its plans build more nuclear power plants with Russian help the in southern port city of Bushehr, ignoring US and Israeli concerns that by-products from the plants could be used to manufacture atomic bombs. The US and Israel strongly suspect Iran of seeking nuclear weapons, but Iran has consistently denied the charges. The Committee for the Commemoration of Martyrs of the Global Islamic Campaign is organizing the human shield campaign to protect Bushehr reactor, the Sydney Morning Herald reported Wednesday. According to a spokesman for the group, 25,000 people have already signed up to participate in the shield campaign, Army Radio reported. Iranian President Mohammad Khatami continues to insist that Iran's nuclear program is geared only toward the production of electricity. Iran's Nuclear Energy Council has decided the country needs to produce 7,000 megawatts of electricity through nuclear power plants by 2021 to meet Iran's increasing electricity demands. Khatami issued a "guarantee" not to seek atomic weapons, and warned Washington that it can't stabilize Iraq and Afghanistan without Teheran's help. Iran began assembly of an "army of martyrs" in June, recruited by The Committee for the Commemoration of Martyrs of the Global Islamic Campaign. In the first week of its June campaign, officials of the group said 10,000 young volunteers registered for "martyrdom operations" against Israel and US forces in Iraq. Iran has also issued threats in the past, including one in the past month, that it would destroy Israel's Dimona nuclear reactor if the Jewish state were to attack Iran's nuclear facilities. "If Israel fires a missile into the Bushehr nuclear power plant, it has to say goodbye forever to its Dimona nuclear facility, where it produces and stockpiles nuclear weapons," said the deputy chief of the elite Revolutionary Guards, Brig.-Gen. Muhammad Baqer Zolqadr, in a statement a month ago. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #13 Human shield. Darwinism at it's finest. |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2004-09-09 6:37:36 PM |
| #12 The Mad Mullahs should solicit volunteers from among America's leftists. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-09-09 1:55:16 PM |
| #11 Man, I hope he goes over. It sucks being under his bed. What a pigpen! Let the Mullah squad take over the surveilence. |
| Posted by: The Mossad 2004-09-09 12:26:33 PM |
| #10 It'l drive the Mossad crazy with fear and anger Boris! Go for it! |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-09-09 12:15:35 PM |
| #9 Boris-- Get your lazy ass over there and protect your overlords. |
| Posted by: BMN 2004-09-09 10:26:31 AM |
| #8 course, none of the "courageous and holy" black turbans will be there. Need a decapitating (in all senses of the word) strike on them |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-09-09 9:35:39 AM |
| #7 In my mind, it's like standing on a high speed train track hoping to stop the train. It only works if the train plays too. |
| Posted by: B 2004-09-09 9:27:09 AM |
| #6 At the end of the day, the only credible policy response to the presence of 'human shields' is to ignore them. Same a hostages. Allowing them to be used effectively against you only encourages the practice. But try explaining that to some folks... |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2004-09-09 9:17:28 AM |
| #5 Voluntary human shields are combatants, anyways. It's more moral to cap these types than, say, night-staff janitors at a targetted facility. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2004-09-09 9:05:28 AM |
| #4 ...The funny thing is that with a couple of Mk84 JDAMS delivered by B-2, the human shields could very well only see two holes open up in the containment dome and a deep rumble...and they'll all be sitting there wondering what the hell just happened. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2004-09-09 8:39:48 AM |
| #3 THe Iranians miss one thing: If the Israelis go for that reactor, they will also be going for every single missile storage and launch facility Iran has. Iran will not get a chance to launch much of anything - and thier stuff will land in the neighborhodd, but not close enough for an HE warhead to take out the Dimona facility. And Chemicals will only shut it for a little while. Sn are they claiming they (Iran) now have a nuke? |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2004-09-09 4:19:51 AM |
| #2 If the Iranians believe that the Vincennes plugged their Airbus on purpose, why would they think that human shields would prevent us from obliterating their nuke program? |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-09-09 3:44:54 AM |
| #1 Soon it shall be Iranian mullah removal time, which has always been the long term geostrategic objective for the greater Gulf region. Afghanistan was first, then Iraq and in the near future Iran shall be removed from the original promoters of the modern jihadic global movement. Or maybe we should wait until the Left makes additional deals with the masters of death ........not! |
| Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-09-09 3:00:48 AM |