The threat of suicide bombing attacks against Americans in the Middle East is imminent, as several Islamic leaders and officials have called for retaliation against U.S. forces in the aftermath of the targeted strike of Qassem Soleimani.
As the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) recently revealed, the Roznama Ummat, an Urdu-language daily in Pakistan, has stated that the targeted strike against Iranian General Qassem Soleimani could be repaid in Afghanistan. As reported in the Ummat article, the Afghan Taliban and other terror groups, who are closely tied to the media outlet, have publicly declared their intent to recruit “thousands of volunteers” to seek retribution against U.S. armed forces personnel in Afghanistan.
At the same time, a Twitter post by a security official for Iranian-backed Hezbollah Brigades (aka Kata’ib Hezbollah, KH) has also called for volunteers to engage in suicide bombing attacks against American armed forces in Iraq. Abu Ali al Askari’s statement on social media not only seeks Quranically-endorsed vengeance for the death of Quds Force commander Soleimani, but also for KH Secretary-General and Popular Mobilization Committee Deputy Commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.
In addition, U.S. interests in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia have been threatened by several Shi’ite jihadi militias following the deaths of Soleimani and his entourage. A joint statement released by the ad-hoc coalition states:
“America, the country of arrogance, and its stupid president Trump have perpetrated a great and treacherous crime by assassinating the jihadi warrior and great commander Hajj Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Qods Force, as well as the great jihadi warrior Hajj Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, deputy head of the PMF, along with many other commanders and jihadi warriors of the resistance axis.”
In their statement, the coalition also announces that “we view all [U.S.] interests, and presence in Bahrain, as legitimate targets for us, and we will play a role and take a position in avenging the precious blood of the righteous martyrs…”
Meanwhile, in Lebanon, the pro-Hezbollah Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar published a map of “possible targets,” including the locations of American military troops in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, the Gulf, Turkey, and Jordan. A companion editorial by Ibrahim Al-Amin also proclaimed, “all American presence in our countries must be swept away.”
In yet another call for retaliation, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah, also a globally designated terrorist organization, has called for a “New War,” and asked for Shiite forces — including suicide bombers — to attack the assets and bases of the U.S. military throughout the Middle East.
Established by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, Hezbollah is a highly-sophisticated organization with thousands of highly-trained operatives – and is no stranger to suicide bombing attacks. The groups is calling on allies of Iran to start working toward retaliation for Soleimani.
In a display of solidarity, leaflets to recruit suicide bombers are even being distributed at the private (prestigious) Islamic Azad University in Tehran, Iran.
It is also important to note another ally to Iran is the Taliban, which continues to slap America in the face during the ongoing “peace talks.”
Since the Taliban’s primary goal is the re-establishment of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (the official name of the Taliban government), it shares a common purpose with Iran – the complete withdrawal of U.S. forces from their respective regions.
In that respect, a large global-level coalition known as Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), has already published a 20-page Code of Conduct, outlining the group’s intentions of attacking targets – particularly military related – in Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Myanmar, and Bangladesh, while also calling for increased attacks on both active-duty and off-duty soldiers in these countries, as well as in America and other parts of the world.
As tensions continue to rise in the Islamic World, and the U.S. continues to come to terms with the renewed energy of global jihad, which has shifted further and further east (through the gateway of Iran), it can be determined that Iran-supported coalitions like AQIS can essentially provide an endless supply of fighters. There is a direct connection between terrorist groups and proxies which arcs through the entire Indian subcontinent, across the Middle East, continues all the way to Lebanon, and down into Africa.
The capital city of Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran, is Zahedan, which is located near a tri-border area connecting Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. This is a primary funnel point for terrorists traveling east and west – including the suicide bombers from the Indian subcontinent who have heard the call to fight against U.S. armed forces in the region.
It is imperative the United States takes each of these threats – particularly the threat of suicide bombings – at face value, while asking not “when will it occur,” but “how soon will it occur,” and to prepare accordingly, with the help of our allies in the region, such as India.
The question of “how soon will a suicide bombing attack be attempted against the U.S. military in the Middle East?” is answered in view of two important variables. One is motivation and the other is operational capability. When both variables are present, a suicide bombing attack becomes imminent.
Time and time again, the Taliban and Hezbollah have demonstrated the operational capability to conduct “successful” suicide bombing attacks across the Middle East. Taking into account the numerous statements made by leaders and officials of multiple terrorist groups following Soleimani’s death, there is already more than enough motivation and Quranic authorization to “justify” carrying out additional attacks – even here in America.
Philip B. Haney, a founding member of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and author of “See Something, Say Nothing,” contributed to this article.
Halal Bacon says
why you mad bruh? oh wait, he’s dead 🙂
mortimer says
The Iranians should remember that suicide bombing could work in two directions. There are many Sunnite suicide bombers who could be mobilized as well … they would blend right in to the Iranian milieu and be impossible to detect.
The Iranians poked the bear for 40 years … guess what? That ‘bear’ isn’t going to take it anymore.
Trump has called your bluff, mullahs. Show your cards and leave the game.
Westman says
A good idea except every time a satellite group of Iran attacks an American, anywhere, then another high-ranking military commander or Khamenei advisor should be, “removed”.
barbaracvm1 says
Interesting how it is okay for the muslims to murder the non muslimes; but should we defend ourselves that is grounds for the muslims to murder us.
They are allowed revenge. But we are not allowed to defend ourselves.
Jihad or holy war is required of every muslim at least once a year. This must be their holy war.
mortimer says
Responding to barbaracvm1: The Leftards shield the enemies of America from criticism on the grounds that they are ‘victims’, but it’s pretty far-fetched and ABSURD to declare the FASCIST Iranian mullahocracy as ‘victims’ of anyone!
America defended herself and her allies by punishing the commander of fighters committing atrocities … Soleimani was the man who planned and gave the orders to commit atrocities. No one should regret or criticize Soleimani’s just punishment.
The US has given Iran the message that the jig is up. America will find their military commanders and take them out one by one if the Iranians do not dismantle their sponsorship of terrorism.
don vito says
“increased attacks on both active-duty and off-duty soldiers in these countries, as well as in America and other parts of the world.” What caught my eye, can nonmilitary targets be far behind? All that is needed is a fatwa, right? Already happening per jihad in dar al harb.
Walter Sieruk says
We may all be sure of terrible reality that the jihadist/ Muslims of Iran as Hamas and Hezbollah are very serious about having suicide /homicide bombing Islamic terror/murder attacks in America.
Nevertheless, we ,as Americans , should not live in fear nor be afraid to go to different places or do different things out of being afraid of a jihad attack . For to live in fear would make the jihadists of ISIS happy.
Still, even though we need not live in fear we should be alert and aware of our surrounding as likewise be on the lookout for anything appears wrong or out of place. As in “What’s wrong with this picture?” Then if anything is seen that doesn’t seem right then go and inform and right person about it.
For example , that tee -shirt vendor in New York City , at times square, who saw some smoke come out of a parked van .So he went a told police officer about it. As it has been said “If you see something, say something.” This may be put in another way, be the words of a former US President, Thomas Jefferson, For his wise words apply, even more now, then they did in his own time. For Mr. Jefferson declared “Let the eye of vigilance never be closed.”
Walter Sieruk says
With Iran and its stooge groups as Hezbollah and Hamas being part of this twenty-first century conflict between the Judeo- Christian West and the Islamic East which also has been termed “The war of Ideas” the West needs ideas for its very foundation and defense that is far superior to something as weak and worthless as just “opinion.”
What the West needs is wisdom. As the Bible instructs “Wisdom is better than strength.” Ecclesiastes 9:16. [N.K.J.V.] Likewise, this same book of the Bible also teaches in 9:18 “Wisdom is better than weapons of war.” Therefore, wisdom is in strong contrast to opinion. Also greatly opposed to wisdom is folly and deceit. As the Bible in Proverbs 14:8 informs the reader ‘The folly of fools is deceit.” The deception of deceit may be seen, by all those who are willing to see, in the Islamic doctrine of a virgin filled paradise designed specify for the male Muslim jihadist who dies in the jihad for the cause of Islam, in what they so inappropriately call a “martyrdom operation.” Many a times a jihadist/Muslim is so very deluded the he actually put on his video recording that after he dies in the jihad as a “martyr” he will then in paradise have a “wedding with virgins.” This firm but blind unquestioning folly is the result of such a man believing in deception of a false doctrine. With Light of the Wisdom of Jesus a belief in a “wedding with virgins.” is the outcome of a person accepting as the “truth” an invalid and false. For Jesus taught “you are mistaken, not knowing the Scripture nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are as the angles in heaven.” Matthew 22:29,30.
A jihadist will after dies and such a murderous way will have a very hard and harsh “reality check” In that “his expectation will perish…” Proverb 11:7. For he will then discover that he was deceived by false doctrine and lie of “a paradise with virgins” and to his shock and horror he will find himself trapped and suffering ,with no hope of escape, in the fires of hell. As the Bible teaches a murder “will not inherit the kingdom of God,” Galatians 5:21. This is sad and tragic but nevertheless it’s the reality of the truth.
Walter Sieruk says
Any jihadist just after his Islamic suicide /homicide bomber ,as those of Iran’s Hamas and Hezbollah right after he died ,to his shock and horror, he found himself trapped and suffering in the fires of an awful place the Bible calls “hell.” Luke 16:19-31. That jihad minded Muslim of ISIS was dangerous to self and others because that he was indoctrinated with and likewise believed in the doctrine found in the Quran, 44:54. 55:56. 78;31.,of a lust –filled sex paradise with many virgins, in in for his use only, because he died as a “martyr” for the cause of Islam. That jihadist will discover the hard way that he was instructed in and put his faith in a false doctrine that is from a false religious book of false religion .This doctrine of a paradise for the jihadist who died fighting for Islam was only an enticing religious story of fiction. The Bible does give warning against giving “heed to fables…” First Timothy 1:4. [N.K.J.V] As for dying in a murderous jihad attack, in spite, of the Muslim clerics falsely calling it a “martyrdom operation.” That jihadist after in dies in a jihad murder attack, and learn too late, the truth of Bible with informs its reader that a murderer “will not inherit the Kingdom of God.” Galatians 5:21.
In addition, such false teachers, as those imams and mullahs, who teach and ingrain false yet enticing doctrines as that a lust /sex fill place with virgins into the hearts and minds of others had been predicted in the Bible. For it is written, “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine , but according to their own desires , because they have itching ears , they will heap up for themselves teachers ; and they will turn their ears away from the truth and be turned aside to fables.” Second Timothy 3,4.
WithPurpleAbandon says
The Taliban were a usefool for the Wahhabist-infested Pakistani ISI for a while as a proxy of Saudi Arabia, and now they have turned to Iran. Typical: the enemy of my enemy is my friend, as long as we share the same goal. Nothing new, I suppose.
I think it’s quite clear there are two forces at play in the ME both vying for control. Unmitigated Shi’ite fanaticism on the one hand and Wahhabi-Salafist terrorism on the other. In many ways they are each other’s mirror image, and they will both keep wreaking havoc on the West as well. Salafism is vehemently anti-Shi’ite and vice versa. And they are as bad as each other when you consider their attitude to infidels. And they both have a project: show all infidels what for and eradicating each other at the same time.
IS exists to stop all Shi’ism dead in its tracks, Hezbollah and Quds forces to cleanse Salafism from its territory.
Carol the 1st says
Cockroach-heads headed our way for more fodder. We may have to scratch our heads and figure out the best defense.
Gamzu says
If these attacks happen, the left will have a field day blaming Trump.
Battle says
No ayatollah, no general will put on a suicide bomb and blow himself up.
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Gamzu.
Battle says
Was supposed to be a new reply.
gravenimage says
Is the Threat of Suicide Bombings Against Americans in the Middle East Imminent?
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Muslims are always threatening to murder Americans. This is just the excuse du jour.
Walter Sieruk says
This means that all Americans need not to live fear but be aware of our surrounding and then to the police if something looks wrong .As in “What’s wrong withe this picture?” As Thomas Jefferson wrote “Let the eye of vigilance never be closed.”
This is also a good time to remember that the elimination of that brutal cruel warlord murderous Iranian warlord chief Soleimani by the violence of military drone strike was an appropriate way to exterminate that dangerous jihadist . As explain so well, by Thomas Jefferson, who wrote “With every barbarous people…force is law.”
As it’s good riddance to bad rubbish