as a suicide bomber and then handing himself in
at the mosque he was meant to blow up.
Usaid Barho had a bomb vest strapped to his
body before travelling to a Shi’ite mosque in
Baghdad, Iraq where he was supposed to detonate
the explosive device.
But rather than killing himself and countless
others, he took the brave decision to defy his
orders by unzipping his jacket and handing
himself in to guards standing nearby.He had
reportedly walked up to the gates of the mosque
in the Bayaa district of Baghdad before telling
guards he did not want to blow himself up.
According to NYTimes , he said
“They seduced us to join the caliphate,“I
believed in Islam.They planted the idea in me
that Shiites are infidels and we had to kill
them,” .If he did not fight, he was told, Shiites
would come and rape his mother
The newspaper describes how he was taken to a
training camp before being given a choice of
becoming a fighter or a suicide bomber. He chose
the latter hoping he could immediately
surrender.
The teenager reportedly said:
‘I raised my hand to be a suicide bomber.If I
were a fighter and tried to surrender to
security forces they might kill me, with my gun
in my hand.’
Usaid was reportedly transferred from one Isis
operative to another as he made his journey
towards the mosque before he was finally given
his target and informed of his target.
It is believed that the teenager is currently being
held at an Iraqi intelligence site.
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