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Destination Martyrdom

freerepublic.com     Apr 30, 2008          

What drove so many Libyans to volunteer as suicide bombers for the war in Iraq? A visit to their hometown—the dead-end city of Darnah. Even before he vanished, Abd al-Salam bin-Ali was an easy young man to miss. Pale, lanky and blind in one eye, the unobtrusive 20-year-old didn't leave much of an...                

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Libyan town that churns out terrorists was home to Barbary pirates

hnn.us     Apr 23, 2008          

Source: Newsweek (4-28-08)Darnah's militants do have one other thing in common [beside desperate lives]: an almost obsessive devotion to their town's place in history. Greek and Roman ruins, the detritus of occupations in the ancient past, dot the wheat and barley fields along Libya's coastal...                

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Some guys just were not beaten up enough in High School - Cover: The Jihadist Riddle | Newsweek...

prosandcons.us     Apr 22, 2008          

Cover: The Jihadist Riddle | Newsweek International | Newsweek.com Still, economic desperation alone doesn’t fully explain the readiness of Darnah’s young men to join the insurgents in Iraq. There are tens of millions of impoverished Muslims in the world, but only a handful-perhaps a few hundred...                

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NEWSWEEK Cover: The Martyr Factory Why One Libyan Town Became a Pipeline For Suicide Bombers in Iraq

digitalmediaonlineinc.com     Apr 20, 2008   3 related          

(2008-04-20) NEW YORK , April 20 /PRNewswire/ — Late last year American soldiers raided an insurgent headquarters in the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar. Inside they found some papers with the letterhead "Mujahedin Shura Council." As they analyzed them, one thing struck the American investigators....                

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