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Destination: Martyrdom.(World Affairs)(Darnah, Libya)
Byline: Kevin Peraino
What drove so many Libyans to volunteer as suicide bombers for the war in Iraq? A visit to their hometown, Darnah, provides some answers.
Even before he vanished, Abd Al-Salam Bin-Ali was easy to miss. Pale, lanky and blind in one eye, the unobtrusive 20-year-old didn't make much of an impression in Darnah, his hometown in eastern Libya. He'd studied to be a veterinarian, but after graduation he couldn't find a job. "The economic situation was terrible," recalls his older brother, Abd al-Hamid. "He was looking for work every day." Sometimes Abd al-Salam would set up a folding table in Darnah's Old City and hawk cheap perfumes.
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