'Job application' online for suicide bombers Iranian group recruiting for attacks on U.S. citizens, forces, Israel
Posted: June 10, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern
Insight Online has obtained a shocking recruitment appeal seeking Iranians to commit suicide in deadly attacks on Israel, against American-led coalition forces in Iraq and on U.S. citizens around the world.
Obtained from an Iranian recruiting group, the deadly appeal is unmistakable and to the point. It seeks recruits for martyr assignments as well as to assassinate Salman Rushdie, the novelist Ayatollah Khomeini condemned to death in 1989 after publication of Rushdie's book "The Satanic Verses."
Reuters news agency reported June 5 that the group is known as the Committee for the Commemoration of Martyrs of the Global Islamic Campaign.
It quoted the group's spokesman, Mohammad Ali Samadi, as saying "some 10,000 people have registered their names to carry out martyrdom operations on our defined targets."
Ali Samadi, according to Reuters, says the alleged independent group's targets include "mainly the occupying American and British forces in the holy Iraqi cities, all the Zionists in Palestine, and Salman Rushdie ... the only nonmilitary target for us because we believe his attack against Islam was much worse than a military assault."
Insight Online found the proposal on a website where terrorists are being recruited. An English translation of a Farsi "job application" recruitment states:
In the Name of God
Preliminary Registration for Martyrdom Operations
I _____________, child of _____________, born 13_______ [Islamic calendar], the City of: _________________ proclaim my preparedness for carrying out martyrdom operations:
___ against the occupiers of the holy sites [referring to Najaf, Karbala, and other places in Iraq].
___ against the occupiers of [Jerusalem].
___ for carrying out the death sentence of the infidel Salman Rushdie.
Also, I would like to become an active member of the Army of Martyrs of the International Islamic Movement. Yes ____, No _____
Contact telephone:
Applicant's address:
Applicant's signature:
An expatriate Iranian who alerted Insight Online to this "job posting" said that while recruitment of young suicide killers has been going on for many years, and there have been terrorist conferences, this is the first time that such groups have circulated application forms and done so publicly.
"It is extremely chilling and shows the contempt for civilized society that these radicals hold," a top Iranian monitor who asked not to be identified tells Insight.
