Word: martyrdom
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...legitimate form of self-defense.” Most recently, when a Hamas suicide bomber killed 22 Israelis during a Passover meal on March 27, Arafat, in a phone interview with Al Jazeera television, praised the bomber, exclaiming “Oh God, give me martyrdom like this...
...they would be willing to die for the truth, and not a hand will be raised. They do not mean no, exactly. They simply give the hypothesis a pocket veto. They think, for one thing, that the question is too darkly phrased and even implies an obscure promise of martyrdom--not normally the journalist's line of work. Ask the young roomful, instead, whether they would be willing to risk their lives to cover extreme situations in faraway places and report the truth, and the best in the room will get a gleam in their eyes--a little ignition...
...they would be willing to die for the truth, and not a hand will be raised. They do not mean no, exactly. They simply give the hypothesis a pocket veto. They think, for one thing, that the question is too darkly phrased and even implies an obscure promise of martyrdom - not normally the journalist's line of work. Ask the young roomful, instead, whether they would be willing to risk their lives to cover extreme situations in faraway places and report the truth, and the best in the room will get a gleam in their eyes - a little ignition...
...That unwinding may have begun. Investigators are combing through the hard drives of computers in the Internet cafes from which Reid e-mailed his contacts in Pakistan. They have discovered a "testament" that Reid sent to his mother describing his "martyrdom to Islam." French sources say many of Reid's e-mails were sent to an address in Peshawar, Pakistan, which they think provides postal-drop and forwarding services for al-Qaeda operatives in Europe...
Despite his behind-the-scenes support role, Cherifi still apparently harbored ambitions of martyrdom. "During a search of Cherifi's house, we found a will leaving a portion of his worth to the mujahedin," says the French official. Accompanying that document was a letter Cherifi wanted read to his son, then just 18 months old, in the event of his death. "It urged the boy to fulfill his father's dream of becoming a warrior of Islam and martyr of jihad...