Posted on 05/19/2007 9:59:25 AM PDT by knighthawk
Paris, 18 May (IPS) The Islamic Republic of Iran is secretly, but actively reorganizing dormant terrorist operations networks, aimed at American and Israeli vital interests in Europe, according to well informed sources.
Tehran is setting up the network as at the same time it is “assuring” the United States and the international community about it’s “readiness” to talk about the situation in Iraq, the sources said, warning that Washington neither London or even the European Union should not be lured about Iranian assurances.
The aim of the scheme is to have a “dissuasive arm” in case Washington attacks Iran, the sources said, adding that Iranian clerical rulers have been persuaded that “suicide operation” is the best weapon with which they can retaliate on the Americans.
According to the sources, Tehran is placing two of its most notorious terror experts as “military attaches” in Europe, with the task of setting up operation basis, recruiting would be voluntary suiciders and pinpointing major American and Israeli civilian centres.
Mr. Mohammad Reza Yazdanpanah, better known as Hoseyn Allah Karam, one of the commanders of the Iranian Hezbollah pressure group, has been named as military attaché for the Balkans, from his headquarters Zagreb, he would be the overall commander of the operations, the sources said.
Mr. Saíd Qassemi, alias Haj Saíd, commander of the intelligence unit of the Revolutionary Guards 27th Army of Mohammad Rasoul Allah has been also named as military attaché for central Europe. Although the country to which Haj Saíd would be based it is not yet decided, but sources say it would “certainly be an important European capital.
Both men are the “initiators” of forming suicide operations cells, by recruiting voluntaries in major streets of Tehran and other main Iranian cities back in 2003-2004.
At that time, Iranian authorities, when questioned, would immediately say that what Allah Karam or Haj Saíd are doing has nothing to do with the government, that one must not take the initiative as serious, that the fact the voluntaries are being trained at Revolutionary Guards garrisons is just a matter of men to be incorporated in “civil protection”.
“Now, as the men are named to official functions, we know that the voluntary recruiting campaign was an official plan”, a former security officer told the Iran Press Service, asking not being named.
The task of the two senior terrorist masters would be to reorganize and revitalize terrorist networks Tehran used to have in Europe, always recruiting among Europe’s Muslim community. They have also to choose new locations for launching operations and finally, to replace “burned agents”, the sources said.
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