THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 2005
400 sign up to become suicide bombers in Iran
REUTERS
TEHRAN: Around 400 volunteers signed up in Tehran to sacrifice their lives in 'occupied Islamic countries' on Wednesday night, inspired by a fatwa from a top hardline cleric giving religious backing to suicide missions.
Wednesday's registration session was the latest by a group called the Committee for the Commemoration of Martyrs of the Global Islamic Campaign, which says it has enrolled 35,000 volunteers nationwide for possible attacks since last year.
Iran's pro-reform government has, however, repeatedly said it would not allow groups to carry out such attacks and no Iranians are thought to have directly executed suicide bombings in Israel or elsewhere in the recent years.
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