1938 Alert: "Exclusive: Terrorist training camps in Iran," from Iran Focus, with thanks to JE:
London, Feb. 27 – Iran Focus has obtained a list of 20 terrorist camps and centres run by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).The names and details of the training centres were provided by a defector from the IRGC, who has recently left Iran and now lives in hiding in a neighbouring country. Iran Focus agreed to keep his identity secret for obvious security reasons.
The former IRGC officer said the camps and the training centres were under the control of the IRGC’s elite Qods Force, the extra-territorial arm of the Revolutionary Guards.
“The Qods Force has an extensive network that uses the facilities of Iranian embassies or cultural and economic missions or a number of religious institutions such as the Islamic Communications and Culture Organisation to recruit radical Islamists in Muslim countries or among the Muslims living in the West. After going through preliminary training and security checks in those countries, the recruits are then sent to Iran via third countries and end up in one of the Qods Force training camps”, the officer said.
A list follows at Iran Focus.
Iran operating terrorist training camps and recruiting abroad? I'm shocked, shocked. After all, in a country of 70 million, with a very large segment of unemployed people under 30 you wouldn't think they'd need imports. But then, I guess the locals aren't quite so thrilled to be living in an Islamic republic.
"Qods" = al-Quds = Jerusalem?
Hmm.
Our war in Iraq. The gift of the American people to the Mullahs of Iran. This is the worst foreign policy blunder in the history of the United States - it makes the Vietnam War look like a dazzling victory. Main result of our incursion is... Sadr's army.
The Mahdi-mad-12th-imam-intoxicated-apocalyptic Shia who annually flog and cut themselves (and even their infants) to a bloody frenzy are sitting atop the world's oil supply with an army of terrorists and the fixin's for a nuclear holocaust II. With sizeable Shia populations in Bahrain, the Saudi oilfields and etc.
A horrible thought to start your day. We've not really seen Shia terrorism unleashed on the world - at least not in the Al Queada sense. It has been mostly 'cat's paw' and localized Hezbollah terror. Shia terrorism will make Al Queada look like 'Ernest Goes to Terrorist Camp'.
How Islamophobic to call these Muslim religious retreats "terrorist camps".
Next you'll be implying that their nuclear power program has some kind of ulterior motive.
If the BBC doesn't think it has, and the UN isn't sure, that's good enough for me.
Now back to remedial basketweaving while the headnurse prepares my meds.
Ooo, and isn't that little pixie cute, sitting on the shoulder of Napoleon over there.
poetcomic1 -
I believe that, eventually, we in the West will be forced to recognize that the problem is islam. The whistling-past-the-graveyard distinctions like "islamofascist", "fundamentalist", "radical", etc will be dropped.
Even President Bush will have to acknowledge what has become obvious to many of us. This will greatly simplify the targeting problem.
Don't despair. We can handle these turkeys when we put our minds to it.
00Buck,
Eventually is right. First, however, we must stop getting caught up in minutiae about who operates a dock surrounded by US Customs, US Coast Guard, and, most fearsome, Longshoremen. Yet here we are prattling on about a perceived threat when Iran is actively training terrorists inside its borders and is using its diplomatic missions as recruitment centers.
Dear ooBuck
Nature has endowed us with a 'fight or flight response' to danger. I believe a people who's immediate response to mortal danger is to SOOTHE themselves with comforting words is in serious trouble.
And when the training is finished in Iran, we'll allow them entry to the US as students.
Buddy-
You're prescient.
Check our the Taliban member now a student at Yale on the DW "Jihadi Turns Bulldog" link.
I'd like to see the paperwork behind that visa.
Gives a new meaning to-
BMOC.
Beheading Muslim On Campus.
There's terrorist training camps here, in the U.S.!
http://thomistic.blogspot.com/2006/02/islamic-terrorists-training-in-us.html
Contact your representatives.
D. Ox