Kabul Afghanistan – The Turkish wife of a Jordanian doctor who killed seven CIA employees in a suicide attack in Afghanistan says her husband was outraged over the treatment of Iraqis at Abu Ghraib prison and the U.S.-led invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Defne Bayrak, the wife of bomber Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, said in an interview with The Associated Press that his hatred of the United States had motivated her husband to sacrifice his life on Dec. 30 in what he regarded as a holy war against the U.S.
“My husband was in a struggle against America,” she said during the interview at an Istanbul park. “I think the war against America must go on. We must oppose it (U.S.) as it tries to put the entire world under its sovereignty.”
Turkish police questioned and released Bayrak on Thursday.
But she says police confiscated a book she had written called “Osama bin Laden, the Che Guevara of the East.”
Bayrak, who lives in Istanbul, is an Arabic language translator for some Turkish media outlets.
She told private CNN-Turk television that while in Jordan her husband wrote articles for Jihad Web sites as an outspoken critic of the United States.
“He never digested the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq,” she said. “He was very disturbed. For example, he was outraged over news that our sisters were raped at Abu Ghraib. He was constantly expressing his anger about the invasion of Muslim lands.”
Asked whether she was angry at him for abandoning her with two young daughters, 5-year-old Lina and 7-year-old Leyla, she said: “I can fully understand him, for us the meaning of life is not only this world. God willing, we will be united in the afterlife.”
Balawi killed seven CIA employees at a base in Afghanistan on December 30.
A federal law enforcement official said the bomber entered the base by car and detonated a powerful explosive just outside the base’s gym, where CIA operatives and others had gathered.
It was unclear whether the explosives were hidden in a suicide vest or belt, but they set off a “significant blast,” said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the investigation.
Jordanian intelligence officials have said they believed the devout 32-year-old doctor had been persuaded to support U.S. efforts against al Qaeda in Afghanistan.
They say Balawi was recruited to help capture or kill Ayman al-Zawahri, a doctor from Egypt who is bin Laden’s right-hand man, according to a counterterrorism official based in the Middle East.
Bayrak has denied that her husband had been recruited to work for the CIA.
Yeah, let’s keep on giving these people a platform to spew their hatred. This way they can become celebrities.
Yesterday, he was “outraged” about the Gaza war. Please stop giving these terrorists a forum.
Little does she know that her husband as well as all such Arab Murderers are motivated not by any political reason but rather are motivated by lust for 70 Zonahs after their death.
I don’t think that she would be so sportive of him if she realized for what he traded his wife for.
The British (pre-Israeli Independence) has put an effective stop to these Brainless Murderers by making sure to coat bullets with Pig Fat and or to Bury these Murderers together with a pig because according to the non-sense belief of getting 70 Zonahs after death, they believe they will go to Hell instead, if they are associated with Pig upon burial.
The only way to fight Meshugaim_Murderers is to beat them ate their own game.
You can’t defeat them by killing them because they actually look forward to being killed.
But if you bury them with a Chazer, now their Meshugaas says they will not get to be Mezaneh with 70 Zonahs after death and so you have taken away their mythical perceived reward after death.
“Asked whether she was angry at him for abandoning her with two young daughters, 5-year-old Lina and 7-year-old Leyla, she said: “I can fully understand him, for us the meaning of life is not only this world. God willing, we will be united in the afterlife.”
You must be thrilled that he’s getting his 72 virgins. You lowlife scum.
The beatings finally stopped, is that it?
They’re all nuts! Now that he blew himself up, what good can he do for his cause..also, lady, he’ll have had his 72 virgins and won’t even recognize her in the afterlife.
Nuke the Afganistan Mountains with a limited nuclear strike, then you will have ותשקוט הארץ ארבעים שנה!!
We’re just sowing the dragon’s teeth here.
When we struck against Afghanistan the entire world was on our side including almost all Muslims.
Then we invaded Iraq for no reason except PNAC’s dreams of Imperial Glory, the insatiable greed of the Oil Barons and the Republicans’ strategy of keeping Americans frightened and helpless. We and the Brits lied like cheap carpets to corral some sort of support. Allies began to question us. A lot of Muslims got angry. It turns out we’ve been torturing tens of thousands just because we could. We’ve done the radicals’ recruiting for them.
Years later we have managed to kill around a million Muslims. We’ve displaced at least twice that just from Iraq. The endless war against “terror” has radicalized millions. We’ve started another war against Yemen. We’ve given up most of our freedoms. Civilized people treat us, our torture and our secret prisons with disgust. We’ve lost thousands of troops and spent close to two trillion dollars with nothing to show for it.
A wise person would have stopped years ago.
A sane person would stop now.
But we are obviously barking mad.