KurdishMedia News - Daily Kurdish news updates : "'During this period I became convinced that I should blow myself up and that suicide was the highest rank of jihad,' he said. Qader signed up for a suicide mission and Ali sent his name to the leadership in Biyara, a stronghold of Ansar in the mountains close to Iran.
Another prisoner who lived with Ansar, Haidar al-Shemari, said would-be suicide bombers were often single young men with religious zeal: they grew their beards, shunned worldly pleasures and enforced strict interpretations of Islam on their families.
'They would sit them through lectures and tell them that 72 women await the martyr in the other world,' al-Shemari said laughingly.
He said Ansar had so-called 'TNT' camps, where would-be suicide bombers wore suicide vests and trained on how to explode themselves in exactly the right spot.
Omar Fattah, a senior PUK official, said Ansar prefers to use C4 explosive, which he said was stronger than TNT, as well as put in nails and pieces of metal to create more casualties.
He said Ansar leaders form groups of 3-5 members and put them through a one-month course of harsh military training and religious lectures, during which they extol the virtues of martyrdom. "
Another prisoner who lived with Ansar, Haidar al-Shemari, said would-be suicide bombers were often single young men with religious zeal: they grew their beards, shunned worldly pleasures and enforced strict interpretations of Islam on their families.
'They would sit them through lectures and tell them that 72 women await the martyr in the other world,' al-Shemari said laughingly.
He said Ansar had so-called 'TNT' camps, where would-be suicide bombers wore suicide vests and trained on how to explode themselves in exactly the right spot.
Omar Fattah, a senior PUK official, said Ansar prefers to use C4 explosive, which he said was stronger than TNT, as well as put in nails and pieces of metal to create more casualties.
He said Ansar leaders form groups of 3-5 members and put them through a one-month course of harsh military training and religious lectures, during which they extol the virtues of martyrdom. "
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