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03/25/2004 Archived Entry: "Teenager promised sex with virgins if he blew himself up near soldiers"

Posted by steve @ 03:58 PM EST [Link]

I FIND A NICE SPORT JACKET WORKS BETTER: (Via Brothers Judd Blog) Hussam Abdu, the 14-year old intercepted by Israeli soldiers on a suicide mission, said that he went on his mission so that he could have sex.

"I wanted to get to the Garden of Eden, to have sex there with 72 virgins," he said.

Hussam told Yediot Aharonot that when the terrorists strapped on the explosives belt, he was petrified. "I didn't tell anyone what I was going to do. When I reached the roadblock, I was scared less and less. But the soldiers stopped me and I didn't press the detonator. I changed my mind. I no longer wanted to die."

Hussam Abdu's volunteering to serve as a suicide bomber will change the perception that economic straits lead Palestinian youths to choose "martyrdom" operations as the only way out of their problems, Yediot Aharonot reported.

"We had no problems," Hussam said. "I had a computer, and I played computer games. I heard a lot of music on the Internet. I once wanted to work with electronics when I grew up. I wanted to open a television and radio repair shop in Nablus. Now they'll send me to jail for 25 years. I don't want to be in prison."

Hussam's family said that he was mentally retarded. "He doesn't know anything," his brother, Hosni, said. His mother said she was surprised. "Hussam left home this morning to school, and this was the first we hear of what happened," Tamam Abdu told Reuters. "This is shocking. To use a child like this is irresponsible, forbidden."

Judging by recent events Hosni, it isn't that forbidden.

Read on.