The Saudis, part Two.
---The next time you see bush HOLDING HANDS and KISSING the Saudi Crown Prince...REMEMBER what you are about to read...---
'Martyrs' In Iraq Mostly Saudis
Web Sites Track Suicide Bombings
By Susan B. Glasser
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, May 15, 2005; Page A01
Before Hadi bin Mubarak Qahtani exploded himself into an anonymous fireball, he was young and interested only in "fooling around."
Like many Saudis, he was said to have experienced a religious awakening after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States and dedicated himself to Allah, inspired by "the holy attack that demolished the foolish infidel Americans and caused many young men to awaken from their deep sleep," according to a posting on a jihadist Web site.
On April 11, he died as a suicide bomber, part of a coordinated insurgent attack on a U.S. Marine base in the western Iraq city of Qaim. Just two days later, "the Martyrdom" of Hadi bin Mubarak Qahtani was announced on the Internet, the latest requiem for a young Saudi man who had clamored to follow "those 19 heroes" of Sept. 11 and had found in Iraq an accessible way to die.
Hundreds of similar accounts of suicide bombers are featured on the rapidly proliferating array of Web sites run by radical Islamists, online celebrations of death that offer a wealth of information about an otherwise shadowy foe at a time when U.S. military officials say that foreign fighters constitute a growing and particularly deadly percentage of the Iraqi insurgency.
The account of Qahtani's death, like many other individual entries on the Web sites, cannot be verified. But independent experts and former government terrorism analysts who monitor the sites believe they are genuine mouthpieces for the al Qaeda-affiliated radicals who have made Iraq "a melting pot for jihadists from around the world, a training group and an indoctrination center," as a recent State Department report put it. The sites hail death in Iraq as the inspiration for a new generation of terrorists in much the same way that Afghanistan attracted Muslims eager to fight against the Soviet Union in the 1980s.
Rosters of the Dead
Who are the suicide bombers of Iraq? By the radicals' account, they are an internationalist brigade of Arabs, with the largest share in the online lists from Saudi Arabia and a significant minority from other countries on Iraq's borders, such as Syria and Kuwait. The roster of the dead on just one extremist Web site reviewed by The Washington Post runs to nearly 250 names, ranging from a 13-year-old Syrian boy said to have died fighting the Americans in Fallujah to the reigning kung fu champion of Jordan, who sneaked off to wage war by telling his family he was going to a tournament.
Among the dead are students of engineering and English, the son of a Moroccan restaurateur and a smattering of Europeanized Arabs. There are also long lists of names about whom nothing more is recorded than a country of origin and the word "martyr."
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'Martyrs' In Iraq Mostly Saudis
Web Sites Track Suicide Bombings
By Susan B. Glasser
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, May 15, 2005; Page A01
Before Hadi bin Mubarak Qahtani exploded himself into an anonymous fireball, he was young and interested only in "fooling around."
Like many Saudis, he was said to have experienced a religious awakening after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States and dedicated himself to Allah, inspired by "the holy attack that demolished the foolish infidel Americans and caused many young men to awaken from their deep sleep," according to a posting on a jihadist Web site.
On April 11, he died as a suicide bomber, part of a coordinated insurgent attack on a U.S. Marine base in the western Iraq city of Qaim. Just two days later, "the Martyrdom" of Hadi bin Mubarak Qahtani was announced on the Internet, the latest requiem for a young Saudi man who had clamored to follow "those 19 heroes" of Sept. 11 and had found in Iraq an accessible way to die.
Hundreds of similar accounts of suicide bombers are featured on the rapidly proliferating array of Web sites run by radical Islamists, online celebrations of death that offer a wealth of information about an otherwise shadowy foe at a time when U.S. military officials say that foreign fighters constitute a growing and particularly deadly percentage of the Iraqi insurgency.
The account of Qahtani's death, like many other individual entries on the Web sites, cannot be verified. But independent experts and former government terrorism analysts who monitor the sites believe they are genuine mouthpieces for the al Qaeda-affiliated radicals who have made Iraq "a melting pot for jihadists from around the world, a training group and an indoctrination center," as a recent State Department report put it. The sites hail death in Iraq as the inspiration for a new generation of terrorists in much the same way that Afghanistan attracted Muslims eager to fight against the Soviet Union in the 1980s.
Rosters of the Dead
Who are the suicide bombers of Iraq? By the radicals' account, they are an internationalist brigade of Arabs, with the largest share in the online lists from Saudi Arabia and a significant minority from other countries on Iraq's borders, such as Syria and Kuwait. The roster of the dead on just one extremist Web site reviewed by The Washington Post runs to nearly 250 names, ranging from a 13-year-old Syrian boy said to have died fighting the Americans in Fallujah to the reigning kung fu champion of Jordan, who sneaked off to wage war by telling his family he was going to a tournament.
Among the dead are students of engineering and English, the son of a Moroccan restaurateur and a smattering of Europeanized Arabs. There are also long lists of names about whom nothing more is recorded than a country of origin and the word "martyr."
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posted by Christy at 10:54 AM
3 Comments:
shame on whoever inspired these young men to take not just their own life, but the lives of other innocents-- but not their own. Hypocrites.
I do find it challenging when someone is referred to as a Saudi national or a Syrian National, because nationality is an imported European construct to a region that prides itself on being tribal. Most of those who hold a passport from an Arab state define themselves first by their "ethnicity" rather than what is written in their passport.
I would thus surmise it better for our understanding of such horrific acts to be looked at from an ethnic or socioeconomic perspective
In one of the articles i posted yesterday about the insurgency..Its named No Rules Just Death...it makes very clear that tribal and even religious diffrences are no longer a part of the mentality of the resistance.. They are to put it simply in ONLY the jihadi frame of mind. Either they will defeat us or they will die trying.
There is no real way to fight an enemy that is willing to die. It is not the American way. we have always been taught to live to fight another day if you cannot violently resist then passivly resist. This enemy though, there is no intent on thier part to leave either us or themselves alive.
I frankly do not care what tribe thier from. And if I knew the suicide bombers were all Iraqi it would seem logical.. But to know that these freaking Saudis, even as they tickle our presidents palm, are just OPENLY killing us now with no repercussions whatsoever.
I never found any value in prejudice..But I am REALLY REALLY SICK of murderous ass Saudis and thier little jihadi infection.
And every day that osama is out there free...the more pissed off I get.
it cant be socio-economic if highly educated and skilled people are willing to die.
Its deeper than money. It has to be religious.
For them it truely is the death that is the glory. some of the milder cultures dont glorify it, but that kinda keeps getting lost in the bomb blasts.
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