Just when you thought everything possible was online, there’s this:
The Cyber-Cemetery of the MujahedeenThey 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.
Ahmad Sa’id al-Ghamidi wanted to be a doctor. The 20-year-old had enrolled at the University of Khartoum in Sudan and his family had given him money for fees and living expenses, enough to last him until he had his degree. But in the end, that money didn’t go for rent or for books on how to heal the sick. Al-Ghamidi used that money to kill.
Incited by the propaganda of al-Qaida and Iraqi insurgents, the young man from Saudi Arabia threw his future away. He gave up his studies and, as one Internet site gushes, he “withdrew all his money … went to Iraq … and became the hero of a unique operation in Mosul.”
Below are longer versions of individual “virtual tombstones” with a great deal of information about the terrorist’s name, life story and death or martyrdom:
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