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A conversation with a would-be bomber

Asked where he got the theological sanction to become a suicide bomber, Mukdi answers, "I listened to the Muslim preachers on television. They were my main authority."

As if he repeating an old lecture, he adds, "Dying for martyrs doesn't mean real death."

Mukdi ultimately attributes his fateful decision to the death by shooting, when he was nine years old, of a much older playmate and to two humiliating episodes at IDF checkpoints - one of which occurred just a year before he decided to become a shahid.

"I was hit by a black soldier at a checkpoint in the town of Hawara," he recalls. "I wanted to kill him, but I did not have the weapons."

When asked why did he not take his revenge against troops at a West Bank checkpoint, he says they are too well guarded. Yet it seems hard to believe that Mukdi did not encounter a single soldier on his way to the Tel Aviv boardwalk. Evidently, someone thought of a better use for 15 kilograms of explosives.

Read the amazing interesting article here, by Eric Schechter

Posted on September 6, 2004
in Limit of my knowledge

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