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Wounded, feeling cheated, Saudi turns against 'jihad'
RIYADH: The last time Ahmed Al-Shayea was in the news, he was in the hospital at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, being treated for severe burns from the truck bomb he had driven into the Iraqi capital on Christmas Day 2004. Today, he says, he has changed his mind about waging jihad, or holy war, and wants other young Muslims to know it. He wants them to see his disfigured face and fingerless hands, to hear how he was tricked into driving the truck on a fatal mission, to believe his contrition over having put his family through the agony of believing he was dead.
Ah, the perils of the unsuccessful shahid.

If you kick off, taking a few infidels with you, there are those 72 doe-eyed flat-chested 12-year olds, the babes you lusted after but who thought you were yucky back when you were in 7th grade. That's Paradise, by Gum.

But if you hose it, and you only succeed in maiming yourself for life, making it only halfway to Paradise, you don't find 36 of the little sweetlings waiting to indulge your craving for pre-teen nookums, whether or not your genitalia made it through the kaboom intact. People don't cluster around you, casting admiring glances your way, when you're stumping along on your wooden leg or pushing yourself around legless on a cart, or asking for help wiping your butt because you've only got the two hooks to work with now. The babes don't swoon when you hobble by carrying your colostomy bag. Mom doesn't look at her boy's hideously scarred features and fingerless hands with the kind of pride you had in mind when you climbed into the truck full of explosives.

And the holy man who sent you on your way, now talking earnestly to somebody else about the glories of jihad, didn't have to go through the skin grafts with you, did he?

Heh heh. Wotta dumbass you were.
At 22, the new Ahmed Al-Shayea is the product of a concerted Saudi government effort to counter the ideology that nurtured the 9/11 hijackers and that has lured Saudis in droves to the Iraq insurgency.

The deprogramming, similar to efforts carried out in Egypt and Yemen, is built on reason, enticements and lengthy talks with psychiatrists, Muslim clerics and sociologists. The kingdom still has a way to go in cracking the jihadist mind set. Most of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudis, and Saudis make up nearly half of the foreign detainees held in Iraq, according to Mouwaffak Al-Rubaie, Iraq's national security adviser. They number hundreds, he said this month following a visit to Saudi Arabia. Dozens more are fighting alongside Al-Qaida-inspired militants at a Palestinian camp in Lebanon.
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC 2007-07-28
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