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Hundreds of Iranians Sign Up for Suicide Attacks in Iraq and Israel
2004-05-31
From IranMainia, originally from AFP
Hundreds of Iranian men and women, even children, declared their willingness to carry out suicide attacks in Iraq and Israel following weekly Friday prayers in Tehran, an AFP correspondent said. The "volunteers" signed their names and gave their telephone numbers to an obscure group calling itself the Committee for the Commemoration of Martyrs of the World Islamic Movement.

A spokesman, Mohammad Yasser Samadi, told AFP the action was 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 ..... However, there was no evidence the action was anything more than symbolic, and Samadi said they would renounce suicide operations if asked by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The group announced earlier this month it had begun recruiting potential suicide bombers for Iraq in the wake of serious clashes between US-led coalition forces and the militia of radical cleric Moqtada Sadr around the Shiite Muslim holy cities of Najaf and Karbala.
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