Word: martyrizing
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...Back in his home town, Zarqa, in Jordan, a 12-foot banner was erected Thursday outside the home of Zarqawi?s brother, Sayel "Abu Omar" al-Khalayilaht. In blue letters on white, it proclaimed "the wedding of the hero martyr Abu Mousab al Zarqawi," a reference to the belief among his supporters that his "martyrdom" in the jihad against America has set him on a wedding-like procession to paradise. Veiled women weeping near the house were admonished by al-Khalayilaht, who said "Don't cry, but ululate, for he is a hero and a martyr." That sentiment is unlikely...
...have been cemented by the Nigerian government's handling of the crisis. Dokubo-Asari was little known when he began, say activists in Port Harcourt. But when he turned on the government he became a self-styled liberation leader. By jailing him, the government risks making him the martyr he says he is. mend has demanded his release. A new ideological coloring to the attacks has been backed by increasingly sophisticated tactics. A car bomb just over two weeks ago, at an oil-truck stop in Warri, was activated by a cell phone and came just days after China...
...Moussaoui, you came here to be a martyr and die in a big bang of glory. But to paraphrase T.S. Eliot, instead, you will die with a whimper." LEONIE BRINKEMA, U.S. federal judge, sentencing Moussaoui to life in a super-maximum security prison...
...Qaeda member who pleaded guilty to helping plan the 9/11 terrorist attacks; to life in prison without parole; in Arlington, Va. Although some relatives of 9/11 victims criticized the jury for declining to sentence Moussaoui to death, others said they were satisfied because he would not become a martyr. He will spend the rest of his life in solitary confinement at "Supermax" in Colorado, the country's highest-security prison...
...Moussaoui, you came here to be a martyr and die in a big bang of glory. But to quote T.S. Eliot, instead, you will die with a whimper." LEONIE BRINKEMA, U.S. federal judge, sentencing Moussaoui to life in a super-maximum security prison...