Word: sadiya
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...TIME learned of Hasna from her sister Sadiya and their mother Shafiqa, who now live in hiding in Syria. (The names of the bomber and her family have been changed at their insistence.) Although aspects of their story are impossible to verify, important details tally with the version of events provided by Iraqi officials in Anbar. (The U.S. military will only confirm that a woman suicide bomber attacked the checkpoint at Kilometer 5 on July 23.) Sadiya and Shafiqa also allowed TIME to view, but not to record, two DVDs given to them by an Al-Qaeda fighter...
...Hasna was distraught - not because her brother was dead, but because he had not completed his mission. "She had been ready to hear about his death," says Sadiya. "But the idea that he would not be a martyr was too much for her to bear." Hasna locked herself indoors for a week, until the neighbors called Sadiya, certain her sister was dead. They broke down the door and found her, comatose and surrounded by feces. Under Sadiya's care, she regained some of her health, but she continued to be haunted by the shame of Thamer's failure - she referred...
...next time Sadiya saw her sister, Hasna was almost giddy with anticipation. She told funny stories about her experiences in Syria. The jihadis' religious beliefs forbade them from touching her so, she said, they had no idea how to measure her for the belt. She offered to give them her brassiere, but they had to first check with an imam whether Islam allowed a man to touch a woman's underclothes...
...week after Hasna's death, Sadiya received two DVDs. She says she can scarcely recognize the woman in the recordings. "It is Hasna, but without Thamer," she says. "When he died, she became half of herself, and you can see half a person on the video." It is common for suicide bombers to videotape a wasiyeh or will; many are posted on jihadi websites. In the recordings, the bombers, usually masked, are shown praying from the Koran, extolling the virtues of martyrdom and damning their enemies (typically the U.S.) to hell...
...blames on Saddam's use of chemical weapons in the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War. Her faith in the future stems from her faith in God to provide for Iraq. "We are asking Allah day and night to unify our country," she said. A resident of predominantly Sunni Sadiya district of Baghdad said turnout was high in the neighborhood, indicating many Sunnis had come out to vote against the constitution. But even those who voted were cynical. Thafir Aga, 38, a taxi driver in Sadiya, said he voted against the constitution because it "is dividing Iraq." "The government is only...