The Cyber-Cemetery of the Mujahedeen

A very ggod series of arti­cles on “Der Spiegel”

1– The Cyber-Cemetery of the Mujahedeen

They were once med­ical stu­dents, fathers or busi­ness­men who took their own lives — as sui­cide bombers in Iraq. Their obit­u­ar­ies, which can be read on the Inter­net, are doc­u­ments of men who were blinded by their deadly ver­sion of faith.

2– His Face Was More Beau­ti­ful than the Moon.

Abu Osama, who left Morocco for Iraq, car­ried out a sui­cide bomb­ing on the UN head­quar­ters in Bagh­dad. A com­pan­ion doc­u­mented his life — and his death. It is one of the longer entries in the Iraqi Mujahedeen’s Inter­net con­do­lence book.

3– A Stu­dent in Ger­many.

If one believes the writer of his obit­u­ary, then Abu Hamza al-Hadrami was a stu­dent at a Ger­man uni­ver­sity before going to Iraq. He died near the begin­ning of the inva­sion in the south­ern Iraqi city of al-Nasiria.

4– May God Accept Him.

He fought in Tajik­istan, Chech­nya and Bosnia, sat in Saudi Ara­bia in prison and died in Kur­dis­tan: Suhail al-Sahil was one of the vet­er­ans of the inter­na­tional jihad.

5– Sleep the Sleep of the Bride­groom.

Faisal al-Mutairi actu­ally wanted to fight in Afghanistan, but was arrested in Iran. He later car­ried out a sui­cide attack in Iraq. In between he worked for the jihad through the Inter­net and dis­trib­uted audio tapes.