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Egypt, and the prime enemy of by example that nuclear weapons seem
theocratic Iran and Islam. The chief to guarantee sovereignty, power and a
Iranian Islamic leader, Ayatollah Ali healthy economy.
Khamenei, called for a holy war against
the West, saying -- "The struggle against “There are eleven things which are
American aggression, greed, plans and impure: urine, excrement, sperm,
policies will counted as a jihad, and bones, blood, dogs, pigs, non-
anybody who is killed on that path is a Muslim men and women, wine, beer
martyr." 5 and the sweat of the excrement-
eating camel” -- Ayatollah
The spread of mass weapons, nuclear, Khomeini
chemical and biological -- and the means
to deliver them -- is now out of control The successor to Iran's Ayatollah
and is the single greatest threat facing Khomeini, Ali Akhbar Rafsanjani, has
the civilized world. In an investigative good reason to believe that Iran is the
book entitled Critical mass, writers leader of Islam by virtue of the nation's
William Burrows and Robert Windrem size, location, history and the purity of
propound the theory that third-world its religion. As early as 1991, Iran's
nations are using unconventional means Deputy President, Ataollah Mohajerani,
to acquire nuclear capacity. called for an Islamic bomb: "Because
Israel has nuclear facilities, the Muslim
Islamic States states, too, should be equipped with the
same capacity. I am not talking about
“Iran is rich enough to support one Muslim country, but, rather, the
revolution as an industry” -- Simon entirety of Muslim states." 7
Peres
While Libyan Colonel Qaddafi has a
“Violence is the only way of long standing offer to purchase a nuclear
ensuring a hearing for moderation” weapon, he, too, has been expanding his
-- William O'Brien chemical weapons arsenal. Chemical
weapons were considered a "poor man's
During the 1980s, the Soviet presence in atomic bomb" -- a substitute for a real
Afghanistan propelled Pakistan into a atomic bomb. But Qaddafi recognizes
nuclear weapons program that paved the that to stand up to the West, he knows
way for the country to procure seven that he will need a bomb that has a
atomic bombs as early as 1994. 6 Two deterrent force capable of hitting the
Muslim nations -- Pakistan and United States. Recalling the U.S. air
Kazakhstan -- possess nuclear weapons. strikes on Tripoli and Benghazi in April,
1986, Qaddafi told his citizens that only
Iran has been shopping for a ready-made super weapons, or rather an Islamic
nuclear bomb while, during the height of bomb and Arab hegemony could hold
the Cold War, the United States and the the United States at bay. "Because if we
former Soviet Union, as well as France had possessed a deterrent -- missiles that
and the United Kingdom, sold advanced could reach New York -- we would have
weapons, technology and information to hit it with missiles and even nuclear
their puppets and proxies while showing
