Bombers Warn U.S. Against Iran Attacks

[ECH1969]

TEHRAN, Iran -- An Iranian group that claims its members are dedicated to becoming suicide bombers warned the United States and Britain on Saturday that they will strike coalition military bases in Iraq if Tehran's nuclear facilities are attacked.

Mohammad Ali Samadi, spokesman for Esteshadion, or Martyrdom Seekers, boasted of having hundreds of potential bombers in his talk at a seminar on suicide-bombings tactics at Tehran's Khajeh Nasir University.

"With more than 1,000 trained martyrdom-seekers, we are ready to attack the American and British sensitive points if they attack Iran's nuclear facilities," Samadi said.

The organizers showed video clips of suicide attacks against Israelis, including one in the Morag settlement near Rafah in Gaza strip in February 2005. "This is a unique opportunity for me to die for God, next to my brothers in Palestine. That was why I signed up," said Reza Haghshenas, a 22-year-old electrical engineering student.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/18/AR2006021801377.html

[Lerkfish]

1. yup, as I predicted long, long ago..,

having all our troops essentially in the same basket and attacking another basket is strategically unsound.
I have always said that all Iran has to do if attacked is throw everything they have at Iraq. What do they care, its not their country.

[saltpoint]

2. But...but....but didn't Vice President Cheney said the people over there

would flood into the streets with roses to welcome us as liberators?

[melody]

3. He also thought an old man's head was a bird :) n/t

[saltpoint]

4. LOL!! / nt

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

5. And an IED was candy.

Cuckoo! Cuckoo!

:crazy:

[freefall]

15. That line alone is worth recommending this thread for! Of course it is

also an important subject that deserves attention. :applause:

[nashville_brook]

6. we're creating suicide bombers in US torture and rape rooms -- abu ghraib

seems like no better way to create a sociopaths with no will to live, is to torture and rape them. the war that is being created (syriana) is one that no one has control of. it's been going on for decades in the mid east as well as central and south america. it's the same bunch of goons and they are at endgame. this is everyone's worst fear and they've been diligently crafting it for generations. and we thought the cold war sucked.

[uppityperson]

7. They're threatening us, see, so we have to bomb them to teach them lesson

We won't attack unless they don't care if we do. We won't leave Iraq until they don't want us to.
War is peace. Ignorance is strength. Freedom is slavery.

[Orlandodem]

8. I'm all for honest attempts at diplomacy an embargo

and anything to avoid bloodshed. But the US must seriously be prepared to decide how we will react to a nuclear Iran? Their leader is a maniac.

Will we bomb their facilities? If we do, are we sure we know where they are? Dead Eye Dick and Dumsfeld said they knew exactly where SH's WMD were. We know how that turned out.

[Mandate My Ass]

11. Our leader is a maniac too

and has proven he is dangerous whereas Iran's so far is all talk.... Bush showed ther rest of the Arab world what happens if they don't have WMDs, e.g. they die.

Just sayin'. :eyes:

[Buck Rabbit]

12. Their wacko President is a powerless figurehead.

<However takes this set-up owes me a heart next Valentines day promotion.>

[freefall]

14. US intelligence estimates that it will take 10 years before Iran can

reasonably be expected to have a nuclear weapon. Who the hell knows who their leader will be by then? Who the hell knows who our leader will be by then? Meanwhile the WH is beating the war drums about Iran and ignoring the country most likely to be a nuclear threat sometime soon, Pakistan. Pakistan is a powder keg that ALREADY HAS nuclear weapons but the administration doesn't want to talk about that becuase Musharef is our "ally in the war on terror." Maybe also because they haven't a clue how to deal with the situation in Pakistan any more than they do North Korea.

Peace

freefall

[xchrom]

9. for my money -- that's what the u.s. is hoping for.

the more terrorists there are the better for the powers of the nsa, the pentagon, homeland security -- gotta defend the debt and deficit.

[fedsron2us]

10. Yup, the mullahs are now being played like fiddles

They seem to be under the delusion that people like Bush or Blair actually give a shit about their own people being killed in suicide attacks or that they are somehow going to bow to popular pressure to change their policies when it happens. In reality the more terror attacks that take place the more the Western elites can justify increasing security expenditure and restricting civil liberties.

[stepnw1f]

13. bingo!!!!! (nt)

[schrodingers_cat]

16. Is this confirmation of "coalition military bases in Iraq "?

Thought so......... :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: