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June 27, 2005       Share:    

Source: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,1077244,00.html

Inside the Mind of an Iraqi Suicide Bomber

(TIME) Aparisim Ghosh - Marwan Abu Ubeida, 20, a Sunni Muslim from Fallujah, says he has been training for months to blow himself up along with as many U.S. or Iraqi soldiers as he can reach. 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. Marwan asked his commander to consider him for a suicide mission last fall but had to wait until the beginning of April. There are, he says, scores of names on that list, and it can be months before a volunteer is assigned an operation. "I can't wait," he says. "I am ready to die now."

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