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Bomber quit intelligence service to join Hamas two days before attack
Posted on 2001-12-03 13:00:55 by |
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 The Jerusalem bombers were identified by Israeli and Palestinian sources as Osama Bahar and Nabil Halbiyeh, both in their twenties. Halbiyeh resigned as an officer in the Palestinian intelligence service two days before the bombings and announced that he was joining Hamas.
Habashi's father learnt of his son's fate when Hamas supporters came to congratulate him. His son had been preparing for his wedding. The three brought to 30 the number of Palestinians who have blown themselves up since the intifada broke out 14 months ago.
Extremist Islamic leaders say young Palestinians are lining up by the hundred in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to volunteer for suicide missions. Eyad Sarraj, the director of the Gaza community mental health project, detects a widespread zeal. "If they are turned down," he told The Independent, "they become depressed. They feel they have been deprived of the ultimate award of dying for God."
Dr Sarraj has researched the "martyr syndrome", trying to fathom why so many young Palestinian Muslims want to die. Religion, he concluded, was only part – albeit a crucial part – of the reason. The other components were a need to identify with a symbol of power and a thirst for revenge.
"The bottom line," Dr Sarraj said, "is absolute despair. It's not economic despair, not poverty, but political despair. These people identify with the defeated, humiliated Arab Islamic nation. They can't rely on outside help. So in the end they turn themselves into bombs."
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