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  • "I hope to be a Martyr, I hope when I get 14 or 15 to explode myself" (His mother agrees. *PIC*)

    06/11/2002 3:18:21 PM PDT · by Registered · 132 replies · 3,102+ views
    digitalfilmaker.net ^ | 05.15.02 | Maya Alleruzzo
    A Martyr's BirthplaceA Photo Essay by  Maya Alleruzzo Om Mohammed helps her twelve-year-old son Abu Ali with a toy suicide bomber belt he fashioned on his own. "I hope to be a Martyr...I hope when I get 14 or 15 to explode myself." His mother is proud of her son: "God gave him to me to protect and defend our homeland." The family is seen in their Gaza City home, May 15, 2002. ( Maya Alleruzzo / The Washington Times ) GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip May 15, 2002 -- Abu Ali, like many 12-year-olds living in Gaza, has dreams of...