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The BBC has an interview with a suicide bomber who was caught by Israeli forces before he was able to detonate his bomb. This 15-year-old offers some frightening insight into the mindset of such a person.
JR: Were you scared of dying?
Hussam: No. I'm not afraid of death.
JR: Why not?
Hussam: Nobody is going to live forever. We're all going to die.
JR: But you were only 15 years old at the time.
Hussam: I wanted to be relieved of school.
So it seems death is better than school. Perhaps if he were better educated he would have a different view about blowing himself and others into smithereens. There is some light, however.
JR: Are you sad that you didn't manage to blow yourself up and kill many Israelis?
Hussam: I feel normal. But I thank God that the operation didn't go through.
JR: You thank God that you didn't die - why?
Hussam: It's just the way it is. God doesn't want me to die.
But, once again, it seems that school was a deciding factor in becoming a bomber.
JR: Some teenagers want to be footballers, others want to be singers. You wanted to be a suicide bomber. Why?
Hussam: It's not suicide - it's martyrdom.
I would become a martyr and go to my God. It's better than being a singer or a footballer. It's better than everything.
JR: What was the main reason for you deciding to become a suicide bomber? The one reason in particular.
Hussam: The reason was because my friend was killed.
The second reason I did it is because I didn't want to go to school.
My parents forced me to go to school and I didn't feel like going.
This kid does not seem like a monster to me. He just seems confused. He wants to be with his family, who, he says, would not have allowed him to do this deed if they had known of his intent. He says he wants to go home and work in his father’s shop. He says he would not do this again, because prison is bad.
But the one disturbing thing about this interview is that he shows absolutely no remorse about the lives he had planned on taking. Nor about the maiming his bomb would surely cause. It seems his only regret is that he was caught. And for this he expects to spend two to three years in jail.
JR: Were you scared of dying?
Hussam: No. I'm not afraid of death.
JR: Why not?
Hussam: Nobody is going to live forever. We're all going to die.
JR: But you were only 15 years old at the time.
Hussam: I wanted to be relieved of school.
So it seems death is better than school. Perhaps if he were better educated he would have a different view about blowing himself and others into smithereens. There is some light, however.
JR: Are you sad that you didn't manage to blow yourself up and kill many Israelis?
Hussam: I feel normal. But I thank God that the operation didn't go through.
JR: You thank God that you didn't die - why?
Hussam: It's just the way it is. God doesn't want me to die.
But, once again, it seems that school was a deciding factor in becoming a bomber.
JR: Some teenagers want to be footballers, others want to be singers. You wanted to be a suicide bomber. Why?
Hussam: It's not suicide - it's martyrdom.
I would become a martyr and go to my God. It's better than being a singer or a footballer. It's better than everything.
JR: What was the main reason for you deciding to become a suicide bomber? The one reason in particular.
Hussam: The reason was because my friend was killed.
The second reason I did it is because I didn't want to go to school.
My parents forced me to go to school and I didn't feel like going.
This kid does not seem like a monster to me. He just seems confused. He wants to be with his family, who, he says, would not have allowed him to do this deed if they had known of his intent. He says he wants to go home and work in his father’s shop. He says he would not do this again, because prison is bad.
But the one disturbing thing about this interview is that he shows absolutely no remorse about the lives he had planned on taking. Nor about the maiming his bomb would surely cause. It seems his only regret is that he was caught. And for this he expects to spend two to three years in jail.
