His face wreathed in smiles, a captured suicide bomber declared Saturday he would have been "happy" to have died while staging an attack on Delhi’s international airport, an act that was aborted by his capture.
| "But since I'm not dead, how about some of those chapatis? And look at that girl, wouldja? She's so pretty! I never noticed how pretty some of those girls are before. And look at my arm, wouldja? See? The fingers work! And I can take a deep breath! I ain't dead! Whoopee!... But... ummm... Yeah. I'da been happy to die. Uhuh. Can I have some pie, too?" |
"We are not scared of death. Had we done what we were supposed to, we would have been happy in our death," Assadullah told reporters of the attack he and two others were to carry out Friday. Pakistani nationals Assadullah, Mohammad Bashir and Rashid of the Lashkar-e-Taiba group were captured earlier this week, the first time the Jammu and Kashmir police have laid their hands on fidayeen bombers. Assadullah was presented to reporters here Saturday. After prefacing his remarks with "It is nice to see you here", he lapsed into typical jehadi language - that dying while attacking the oppressor results in divine attainment. "We were to attack the airport in Delhi and achieve martyrdom. We could not do it. That makes me sad," he said.
| "But I'm alive. Alive, I tell yez! ALIVE!" |
He then burst into maniacal laughter but soon returned to his coherent self. "Indian security forces are committing extreme atrocities on Muslims in Kashmir. It is our duty to fight and target these oppressors," he contended.
| "But I ain't dead. Tomorrow morning, I'm gonna wake up and I'll still be breathin'... And how pretty those girls are! Just the sight of 'em makes life worth livin', don't it?... Almost, I mean." |
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