July 16, 2004
Interview with a would-be suicide bomber.
JR: What was the main reason for you deciding to become a suicide bomber? The one reason in particular.
Hussam: The reason was because my friend was killed. The second reason I did it is because I didn't want to go to school.
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The second reason sort of makes my head go all wobbly, "I didn't want to go to school." Um, wow... At least teenagers are teenagers the world around.
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This is so sad. The kid wanted to be a suicide bomber because a friend died, and he didn't like school. I feel for his mother, and am glad he didn't succeed. No one should have to bury their child. He didn't manage to kill anyone at all. That is the best part of the story.
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"Blowing myself up is the only chance I've got to have sex with 72 virgins in the Garden of Eden," The [Jerusalem] Post quoted Husam as saying his handlers had told him. BBC also reports that he was "mentally challenged"
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Blowing myself up is the only chance I've got to have sex with 72 virgins Kinda hard to have sex when you're dead and your penis is in a hundred pieces.
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I wish Israel's leaders (and voters) would understand that if you give these kids a life and a future worth living for, they won't volunteer to be martyrs.
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That's too easy!
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must be.
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You must hate Freedom, rocket. -
Something was Lost in Translation; Hussam really said, "Blowing myself up is the only chance I've got to have sex with 72 Virgin Suicides."