The Mind of a Teenage Suicide Bomber

Nick Gillespie | 3.25.2004 8:47 AM

Here's an interesting account of Hussam Abdo, a a 16-year-old would-be suicide bomber. A snippet:

Hussam Abdo, 16, told the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot, he had learned about paradise in school.

?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,? he said.

He was caught yesterday with a suicide bomb vest strapped to his body at a crowded checkpoint, setting off a tense encounter with soldiers the army said he had been sent to kill.

Nick Gillespie is an editor at large at Reason and host of The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie.