Some 2,000 Iranians...have signed up with a shadowy Islamist group to carry out suicide bombings in Iraq and Israel, a Tehran daily reported yesterday.
"So far 2,000 people have registered," the group's spokesman, Mohammad Samadi, told the reformist newspaper Shargh. "Twenty-five percent are under 18 years, 55 percent are between 18 and 40, and the rest are 40 to 80," said Samadi, spokesman for the Committee for the Commemoration of Martyrs of the World Islamic Movement.
"The youngest is a seven-year old child who registered along with his family," Samadi added. The group launched its recruitment drive late last month, taking names and telephone numbers of volunteers after the main weekly Muslim prayers on Fridays. The action was intended to "show our friends in Iraq and all other Muslims that we are ready to give our lives to defend our honor and Islam's," Samadi said at the time, pointing to U.S. military operations in the Iraqi holy cities of Najaf and Karbala, which are revered by Shiites in Iran as well as Iraq.
Persian Journal article
"So far 2,000 people have registered," the group's spokesman, Mohammad Samadi, told the reformist newspaper Shargh. "Twenty-five percent are under 18 years, 55 percent are between 18 and 40, and the rest are 40 to 80," said Samadi, spokesman for the Committee for the Commemoration of Martyrs of the World Islamic Movement.
"The youngest is a seven-year old child who registered along with his family," Samadi added. The group launched its recruitment drive late last month, taking names and telephone numbers of volunteers after the main weekly Muslim prayers on Fridays. The action was intended to "show our friends in Iraq and all other Muslims that we are ready to give our lives to defend our honor and Islam's," Samadi said at the time, pointing to U.S. military operations in the Iraqi holy cities of Najaf and Karbala, which are revered by Shiites in Iran as well as Iraq.
Thanks to Juan Cole for the link.
And by the way, why can Dumbsfiend ask that question, when a leftist would get howler monkeyed to death for even suggesting the possibility?
