Posted on 05/07/2006 11:23:16 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
The Islamic Republic of Iran is planning to use as many as eight different terrorist groups to launch attacks against the United States and its allies in the region should the United States launch military strikes against its nuclear facilities, a London-based newspaper reported.
Another Iranian intelligence source tells NewsMax that Iran plans suicide strikes in the United States, and may seek to hold mass numbers of Americans hostage.
Ali Reza Nourizadeh's column in Al Sharq al Awsat, a London newspaper, citing a "senior source" in the office of Iranian joint chief of staff Hassan Firouzabadi, noted that "eight fundamentalist Islamist organizations have received large sums of money in the last month from the Iranian intelligence services" as part of the plan.
The Revolutionary Guards' "al Qods" [Jerusalem] Force will coordinate the plan, codenamed "al Qiyamah, the Islamic word for Judgment Day," Al Sharq al Awsat reported.
The al Qods force is the fourth branch of the Revolutionary Guards Corps, after its ground, naval and air forces. The al Qods trains foreign terrorist organizations, both in Iran and in camps in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, the Sudan and elsewhere.
Counterterrorism officials in France, Germany and Austria have identified the al Qods force as the "strike force" used by Iran to assassinate Iranian dissidents living overseas. The U.S. military has captured al Qods force officers in Iraq, where they have delivered special explosives used in roadside bombs by terrorists against U.S. forces and against Iraqi civilians.
Over the last four months, leaders of the eight foreign terrorist groups have made public visits to Iran, where they have met with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other leaders.
According to the London-based daily, the foreign visitors also met secretly with Iranian intelligence minister Gholahossein Mohseni Ezhei and top aides, who asked them if they were prepared to aid Iran in the event of a U.S. or Israeli attack.
The paper's source said that Iran's Revolutionary Guards force had opened training camps in Iran for fighters of the Shiite Muslim "Mahdi Army" of Iraq, the militia controlled by firebrand Shiite cleric Moqtada al Sadr, and had "increased its financial assistance" to al Sadr to "more than $20 million" per month.
Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Lebanon's Hezbollah are also receiving large sums of money and fresh weapons, the source said.
Eighty members of Lebanon's Hezbollah movement received terrorist training last year in launching suicide attacks using hang-gliders and small submersibles designed to deliver commando divers or suicide attackers.
the time for action has passed. allowing years for an enemy to become entrenched is fatal.
Only a bunch of lefties would call it "The Islamic REPUBLIC"....
Most folks seemed to use the term 'Union of Soviet Socialist Republics'.
Let the Iranian towel heads keep messin' with nuke material. I'd bet dollars to donuts they'll muck something up long before they can gear up an operable nuke plant much less assemble, store, activate and deliver nuke weapons.
Think Zarqawi and the machine gun video. Just them handling all the nuke material they "CLAIM" to be able to make gives me the shivers. Not for us a half planet away, but rather for the folks in adjacent countries, especially to their east and south. Like Chernobyl, when that stuff starts leaking and blowing around...it's gonna be a hot time in the old town.
That's when the UN and other countries will try to step in on a humanitarian basis, and I for one say go ahead but this time include the USA out.
Oh...gotta run...Wife's calling.
prisoner6
MEMRI.org - Special Dispatch Series - No. 1156: "IRANIAN ARMY CHIEF OF STAFF REVEALS IN INTERVIEW PREPARATIONS FOR MILITARY CONFRONTATION WITH U.S.; NEW IRANIAN NUCLEAR MUSIC VIDEOS" (May 4, 2006) (Read More...)
Tick tock goes the clock....get ready bearded ones for a shock!
weeks, HA.
Most americans equate war to the movies. its true. They want to be in and out within a 3 hour time frame. 4 hours as long as theirs an intermission. The problem is they don't want to go to the movies anymore because frikin popcorn and coke cost an arm an a leg and they have been getting bad movies reviews from the press.
Get your head out of your poop chute. Your neighbors may be half-wits, but trying to paint the rest of us so does nothing but make you look stupid.
Those concerned about domestic issues aren't living in TV land. They know something is wrong when the government claims it is prosecuting a war, but it refuses to take the most obvious measures to defend the population.
It's like one spouse telling the other they have to economize, and then coming home with new toys every day. Anyone with a lick of sense is going to figure out what the first is trying to do is get more at the expense of the second.
...And the first calling the second a "nation of spoiled brats" merits nothing but contempt and derision!
If this nation was not so fat and comfortable the time would have been and should have been 9-12-01.
That said, Your right the time is near, unfortunately it will take massive losses ( near millions ) on the homefront to rally the american people.
This war maybe eventually over in minutes ( nuke wise ) but it will take decades to root out and eliminate the opposition. Were going to see an America with closed borders and instead of a draft a direct service requirement.
It's going to be a very different world.
bttt
Some think I'm nuts. but I've told all my kids (11-17 yrs old) they better learn how to shoot a gun now. That way it will be second nature when they're pressed into service.
Yesterday my son told me I better start drinking more pop, because He's killed all his cans and needs more.
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