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...Most of the insurgents, particularly their key leadership cadre, do not, however, appear to have stood and fought. Instead, they behaved as guerrillas typically do when confronting overwhelmingly superior firepower by simply dispersing to attack elsewhere. A number stayed behind, some no doubt on promises of "martyrdom" and lionization in a kind of insurgent "Alamo" mythology. These men appear to have been mostly Iraqis - the U.S. commander in Iraq, General George Casey, said Monday that of the more than 1,000 men captured in the fight for the city, only 15 are confirmed foreign fighters...
...Moderate religious teachers acknowledge that some of their fellow ustaz are pushing their students to martyrdom. But they say it is almost impossible to prevent. "I have 300 students," says Syed Daud, a genial 55-year-old ustaz who wears a traditional white cloth turban and runs a school in the countryside near the town of Yala. "But how can you stop five of them being lured away by people who promise they'll go to heaven or won't be hurt by bullets...
...young Thai Muslims. On many of the youths killed on April 28, a 65-page booklet was found. TIME has seen a copy. Handwritten in Malay, the language of Thai Muslims, but using Arabic, not Roman, script, most of the pamphlet consists of repeated exhortations to the "Warriors of Martyrdom." A sample: "Sacrifice your flesh to the last drop of blood ... blood that will trickle down the warriors' bodies and flood the soil in red, reflecting a red radiance across the sky at dawn and dusk, the East and West calling on warriors to declare jihad." Also noteworthy...
...Zarqawi's fighters think nothing of the martyrdom that comes from dying in battle, and if they simply vanished this time, U.S. forces will surely see them again. "Our worst-case scenario is where we have an enemy who is not coming out to fight," says Pangelinan...
...Hannah's nightmares. And even though Kennedy was raised a Methodist and is now a Quaker, there's no evangelism here. God is in Paradise to do literature's work: to throw light on why we do what we do. "I was interested in the idea of self-martyrdom," Kennedy says. "In what happens when you're in a place very close to not existing or leaving normal existence behind." Fiction may be fiction, but self-destruction is an impulse Kennedy knows for real. Her 1999 cultural history On Bullfighting opens with Kennedy preparing to throw herself from her fourth...