Great reporting from Iraq on a disillusioned Jihadist

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Great reporting on the front lines in Iraq by Michael Yon, author of "Danger Close", who reports about a Libyan jihadist who crossed the border from Syria into Iraq to fight against America and was disillusioned. Worth reading. Here's an excerpt:

" The Libyan, like so many "jihadists" who come to Iraq itching for action in the holy war, found himself treated as expendable bomb casing. He started confessing everything. In fact, he had no sooner sat down at the table in the detention facility here on base than he had filled three pages with his detailed handwritten confessions. He had crossed the border from Syria into Iraq on foot, intent on fighting a holy war, as an infantryman engaged in direct combat with American soldiers. He did not want to be a martyr, merely a jihadist. He did not want to die in Iraq. His Iraqis "hosts" had threatened to kill him if he refused to wear and detonate the explosive vest while mingling into a crowd of Iraqi police. But the Libyan did not like that plan and now was angry at the Iraqis who were trying to force a holy jihadist to become an unwilling bomb, and he was telling everything. Another cascade."

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