Inside the Mind of a Suicide Bomber
The BBC’s correspondent Aleem Maqbool spoke with a 14-year-old schoolboy who blew off his own arm as he attempted to blow up a shrine in Punjab province in Pakistan this month. Umar Fidai’s bomb didn’t fully detonate and the police shot him in the arm before he could detonate the grenade he was holding. His story reveals how the Taliban convinces young men to drop out of school and carry out suicide missions.
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