Posted on 07/27/2014 6:11:49 PM PDT by mandaladon
BEIRUT (AP) — An al-Qaida-linked group fighting in Syria has released video of the first American to carry out a suicide attack in the country's civil war, showing him smiling and saying he looked forward to going to heaven.
The Nusra Front released the new video late Friday showing American citizen Moner Mohammad Abu-Salha, 22, with other fighters before the May 25 attack that targeted several army positions at the same time. It said two of the other three suicide attackers in the assault in the government-held northwestern city of Idlib were from foreign countries, including one who was identified as being from the Maldives.
Abu-Salha appears smiling in the video and speaks in broken Arabic.
"I want to rest in the afterlife, in heaven. There is nothing here and the heart is not resting," Abu-Salha says. "Heaven is better. When people die they either go to heaven or hell. There is happiness beyond explanation."
The video, released by Nusra Front's media arm, al-Manara al-Baydha, was posted on jihadi websites. It corresponded with Associated Press reporting about the attack and Abu-Salha.
Opposition forces previously identified the American who carried out the bombing as Abu Hurayra al-Amriki and said he was a U.S. citizen. The name al-Amriki means "the American" in Arabic.
It's unknown how many people were killed in the bombing. Opposition rebels with the Nusra Front said Abu-Salha's truck was laden with 16 tons of explosives to tear down the al-Fanar restaurant, a gathering site for Syrian troops. The other suicide attackers targeted nearby army positions.
Abu-Salha grew up in Florida and attended several colleges before dropping out and moving abroad.
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They were crazy about fish & chips, couldn’t get enough of “football”, enjoyed clubbing…
And then they killed everybody.
It all makes perfect sense. The Koran permits them to act like their enemies, use guile to lure their enemies to complacency until their enemy is unsuspecting. Then they strike.
Murderous death cult. It also permits liberties with infidel women and to enjoy the the customs is the infidels. They are given money to live among the infidels who they surveil for future attack.
Murderous death cult.
You don’t understand that their concept of heaven is different from yours.
And our congress critters do not object their immigration by the thousands.
Ha ha ha ha, OMG, stop it, you're killin me...Whooo hoooo!!! (slapping knee)
Two taps to the forehead should do it.
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