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  • Leaving slums of Paris, two Muslim teens turn to waging jihad

    11/27/2004 11:41:08 AM PST · by knighthawk · 45 replies · 4,936+ views
    AP Wire | November 27 2004 | Scheherezade Faramarzi/AP
    PARIS -- The two teenage friends hardly seemed like Islamic radicals. They smoked marijuana, drank beer, listened to rap music, and wore jeans. But the pair of French Muslims died insurgents in Iraq -- one a suicide car bomber, according to relatives who traced the young men's path from the slums of Paris through a religious school in Syria to the fight against the US-led coalition next door. Like many young Muslims in France, Abdelhalim Badjoudj and Redouane el-Hakim did not have jobs, and relatives and friends say they grew more alienated in recent years, surrounded by secular Western culture...