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and there's plenty more where this came from, be educated before you speak in the future
BBC Interview with Hussam Abdo, Arab Suicide Bomber, Age 15, Who Didn't Push the Button...
- Comments by Jared Israel -
Editor, Emperor's Clothes
[Posted 18 July 2004]
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Below is a July 16th BBC interview with Hussam Abdo.
The interview is remarkable, first of all, because Hussam Abdo is alive to give it.
Three months ago, on 24 March 2004, Hussam, then 15 years old, was sent by Yassar Arafat's Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades to blow himself up at the Hawara Checkpoint in the West Bank.
The checkpoint is a busy place. If Hussam Abdo had completed his mission he might have killed not only Israeli soldiers but also many of the 200-300 Arab civilians who were gathered there. [1]
Fortunately Israeli soldiers spotted something bulky under the boy's jacket and shouted for everyone to run for cover. Then two things happened: Hussam Abdo decided not to push the detonator; and Israeli troops sent a robot to Hussam with a pair of scissors and then patiently talked him through removing a vest filled with explosives and nails, instead of simply shooting him.
For many people the Hussam Abdo footage was an eye-opener. Hussam's age (he was a *young* 15) and the manifest kindness of the Israeli troops simply did not fit the notion, fostered by the mass media and politicians, that Palestinian suicide terrorists are supposedly making a Political Statement because they have been Driven to Despair by supposedly Hateful Jewish people. The usual explanation is, "What else can they do?" It was as if that line was fashioned in one world, while Hussam and the Israeli troops dwelt in another.
The July 16th BBC interview provides further food for thought. As you read it you might want to ask yourself, 'Why would Hussam Abdo see blowing himself up as a reasonable way to get out of going to school?'
Let me provide a clue. After he was arrested at the Hawara Checkpoint, Hussam was interviewed by the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot. A few English language newspapers published the Associated Press summary of that interview:
[Excerpt from AP report starts here]
"Abdo said he wanted to reach paradise, which he was taught in school was the reward for suicide bombers.
"'A river of honey, a river of wine and 72 virgins. Since I have been studying Koran I know about the sweet life that waits there (in Paradise),'" the newspaper quoted the boy as saying.
AP report published by USA Today; 25 March 2004; "Israelis stop boy wearing bomb vest"
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2004-03...deast-boy_x.htm
[Excerpt from AP report ends here]
So it was *in school* that Hussam learned that suicide terrorists are rewarded in a heaven of earthly delights! As you may or may not be aware, Palestinian schools are tightly controlled by Yassar Arafat's Palestinian Authority. That is the same Yassar Arafat whose forces also control the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade which, according to Hussam, recruited him to be a "martyr" at his school. (See BBC interview.)
Hussam expresses no animosity towards Israelis. He says the soldiers treated him well. He says he expects there to be peace between Arabs and Jews. He says he was relieved when, on March 24th, an Israeli doctor let him use a cell phone to call his mother and then, when his mother wept, took the phone and spoke to her. According to Hussam:
"He said don't worry about your son, he's fine, we'll take care of him."
The boy acknowledges this. He says he would warn any boy being sent on a suicide mission not to go:
"I would stop him because if he got caught he would go to prison and it's not a nice place and he shouldn't be away from his parents."
And yet at the same time he still says that to blow oneself up in a crowd of Jews is life's loftiest achievement:
"It's better than being a singer or a footballer. It's better than everything."
Emperor's Clothes has posted several pieces examining the political psychology of suicide terror, that is, how it is made possible by the mass indoctrination of Arabs, especially impressionable children, and how it is used to achieve the mass indoctrination of Westerners. These articles are listed at the end, under Further Reading. [2]
By the way, Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades at first took "credit" for the heroic act of sending Hussam to martyr himself (and many others!) at Hawara Checkpoint. But then, when by some miracle Hussam didn't kill himself, and by some further miracle some of the media covered what had happened so that people could see Hussam was only a child, Al Aqsa denied they had sent him, claiming it was all a fabrication of Israeli propagandists. [3]
Al Aqsa's attempt to rewrite history in real time was awkward due to Al Aqsa having just taken "credit" for sending Hussam, and due to Hussam's mother, who had the rare courage to give interviews denouncing these "heroes" who recruited her son, and due to the fact that the whole thing was filmed by reporters. I've posted a page of pictures of Hussam Abdo at Hawara Checkpoint. You can access the pictures at
http://emperor.vwh.net/abdo/abdopics.htm
Below is the BBC interview.
Jared Israel
Editor, Emperor's Clothes
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'Nobody is going to live forever'
By James Reynolds
BBC Jerusalem correspondent
** It was an unforgettable image. A teenager standing alone at a checkpoint, explosives strapped to his chest, confused, trying to follow Israeli orders to get him to dismantle his bomb. **
