Iran to unleash terrorists in response to Iraq attack  

Tehran preparing to green-light all operatives against Western 
targets, say intelligence reports  

Posted: December 31, 2002

1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Joseph Farah

(c)2002 WorldNetDaily.com 

WASHINGTON - U.S. military and intelligence sources expect Iran to 
launch major terrorist attacks against Western targets in anticipation 
of or in response to a U.S.-led attack on Iraq.  

All Iranian-sponsored terrorist groups, including Hezbollah, which 
is increasingly seen as more potent and more dangerous than Osama 
bin Laden's al-Qaida network by many U.S. analysts, will be unleashed 
simultaneously on U.S. and allied targets around the world, according 
to WorldNetDaily intelligence sources.  

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"Tehran is connected to nearly every major terror operative in the world," 
said one source. "Iran is just going to give a "go" order to
all of them at 
the same time."  

U.S. intelligence agencies u particularly the NSA u are said to be 
extremely concerned about the role of Iran in the impending Iraq conflict. 

In addition to approving terrorist strikes, there is also concern about the 
possibility of Iranian naval disruptions in the Persian Gulf.  

Because the U.S. has lost many of its intelligence assets in Iran, 
no one is quite certain of the extent of Tehran's terrorist capabilities 
- but intelligence sources say it is dangerous to underestimate them.  

"We don't know what Iran has got any more, and that's a major 
concern," said one source.  

Israeli military officers have warned that Hezbollah, based in southern 
Lebanon, is just waiting for an opportunity to use missiles and other 
weapons from Syria and Iran to wreak havoc with the advent of the 
campaign against Iraq.  

Perhaps the most dangerous component of Hezbollah's arsenal is its 
army of trained suicide bombers.  

Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah's secretary general, has stepped up 
his denunciations of the U.S., along with Israel, and is open in his 
praise and support of suicide bombers.  

"We face a plan by the United States and the Zionists to control the 
region, to redraw the political map of the region," he told a rally in 
Nabatiye, Lebanon, Nov. 29. "What will protect Jerusalem, its holy 
places, and get it and Palestine back, is the path of the Palestinian 
people, through martyrdom seekers who astonish the world each day 
and night."  


Joseph Farah is editor and chief executive officer of WorldNetDaily.com.

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Cheers, Steve..

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