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BIRTH OF A JIHADI Marwan's journey toward suicide murderer began just a few weeks after the fall of Saddam Hussein. Before the war, he had been one of Fallujah's privileged young men: his father's successful business earned enough--even during the difficult years when the West imposed economic sanctions on Iraq--to provide a good life for Marwan and his six brothers and four sisters. In high school, he was an average student but excelled in Koranic studies at the local mosque...
Unlike many other Sunnis in Fallujah, Marwan had little love for Saddam's Sunni-led regime. Yet once the dictator fell, he turned against the Americans. "We expected them to bring Saddam down and then leave," he says. "But they stayed and stayed." Insurgents approached disaffected Fallujis like Marwan and urged them to join the resistance against the Americans. Many signed up, including one of Marwan's older brothers. Marwan joined the insurgency in April 2003 when U.S. soldiers fired on a crowd of demonstrators at a school, killing 12 and wounding many more. Marwan, who took part...
...goes, 'America, they dumb. They bomb wrong palace.'" CORPORAL JONATHAN REESE, Pennsylvania National Guardsman assigned to watch over Saddam Hussein, quoting the deposed Iraqi leader's comments on the U.S. invasion of Iraq...
...says Hussein. Soon his mother may be left alone to tend the graves. Hussein is ready, eager even, to join the war. "My mother doesn't want to lose me," he says, gazing steady-eyed at the sobbing woman. "But yes, I will go because I hate [Iraqi President] Saddam Hussein and I want to avenge the deaths of my brothers and father...
...true that thousands of Iranians have sacrificed their lives in the Iraqi-imposed war. It is true that billions of dollars have been spent for defense. And yes, it is true that there are many death wishes chanted by the masses: Death to America, to Iraq's Saddam Hussein, Israel, the Soviet Union and all other oppressive regimes. Do you believe that detesting such evils is a negative quality? These death chants hardly include "just about everything," as you suggest...