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Q - What was it like to interview would-be suicide bombers, their families and survivors of suicide bombings?
A - It was a fascinating and a terrifying experience. You are dealing with seemingly normal people with very nice manners who have their own logic, which to a certain extent can make sense since they are so convinced that what they say is true. It is like dealing with pure craziness, like interviewing people in an asylum, since what they say, is for them, the absolute truth. I hear a mother saying "Thank God, my son is dead." Her son had became a shaheed, a martyr, which for her was a greater source of pride than if he had became an engineer, a doctor or a winner of the Nobel Prize.
"The girls sometimes played childish pranks on each other. On on occasion, when Fatima didn't want Zaynab to go home, she cajoled her younger sister Iman into hiding Zaynab's shoes and her head covering until the curfew sounded, so she was stuck there all night.
Bin Laden's chirdren did not see him as being nearly as pious and intransigent as the rest of the community did, When Fatima wanted to borrow several cassette tapes, Zaynab told her "I'll give them to you on one condition. Your dad shouldn't hear them, because some men are very strict."
"My dad is not going to destroy them," Fatima protested. "He's not really that hard. He just actsthat way in front of the men."
"He actually listens to the songs?" Zaynab asked amazed
"Oh yeah he doesn't mind."
Fatima: one of OBL's daughters
Zaynab: one of al Zawahiri's daughters
"The Looming Tower"
Lawrence Wright
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