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TIME Magazine: Interview with an Iraqi "Suicide Bomber in Waiting"

From TIME comes this "behind enemy lines and in the trenches" story of yet another casualty to the tragically misguided ideology of militant Islam: a jihadist worldview that promotes the vision of a global Islamic state. He is just another Martyr in Waiting--a human sacrifice to be carried out against "the infidels" and made in submission to "the will of Allah." In a list of impatient eager-to-die volunteers, he waits for the right opportunity to strike and bring down as many Americans as possible.

On orders from his commander in the Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi's terrorist group, al-Qaeda in Iraq, the suicide bomber, a Sunni Muslim from Fallujah who uses the pseudonym Marwan Abu Ubeida, spoke to TIME in Baghdad:

TIME.com

Inside the Mind of an Iraqi Suicide Bomber

IN A RARE INTERVIEW, A TERRORIST IN TRAINING REVEALS CHILLING SECRETS ABOUT THE INSURGENCY'S DEADLIEST WEAPONS

By APARISIM GHOSH / BAGHDAD

Posted Sunday, Jun. 26, 2005

One day soon, this somber young man plans to offer up a final prayer and then blow himself up along with as many U.S. or Iraqi soldiers as he can reach. Marwan Abu Ubeida says he has been training for months to carry out a suicide mission. He doesn't know when or where he will be ordered to climb into a bomb-laden vehicle or strap on an explosives-filled vest but says he is eager for the moment to come. While he waits, he spends much of his time rehearsing that last prayer. "First I will ask Allah to bless my mission with a high rate of casualties among the Americans," he says, speaking softly in a matter-of-fact monotone, as if dictating a shopping list. "Then I will ask him to purify my soul so I am fit to see him, and I will ask to see my mujahedin brothers who are already with him." He pauses to run the list through his mind again, then resumes: "The most important thing is that he should let me kill many Americans."

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posted by Dr. Denice Hanley, DPM, M.Div. @ 12:13 AM