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Wie aus Männern Terroristen werden

25.01.2008, 21:14 Uhr

"On 22 October 2003, a 19-year-old British student, Jawad Akbar, was talking with an old school friend, a 21-year-old from Slough called Omar Khyam, at Akbar's small flat in a university hall of residence in Uxbridge. The conversation was recorded by MI5. 'You're thinking airports, yeah, [but] what about easy stuff where you don't need no experience?' Akbar said. 'You could get a job, for example, [in] the biggest nightclub in central London where now no one can even turn around and say, "Oh, they were innocent, those slags dancing around"... then you will really get the public talking... if you went for where every Tom, Dick and Harry goes on a Saturday night then that would be crazy.'

'If you got a job in a bar or club, say the Ministry of Sound,' said Khyam. 'What are you planning to do then?'

'Blow the whole thing up,' said Akbar. 'The best thing you can do is put terror in their hearts. There is no doubt, that is the best thing, there is nothing better than that.'"

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"Before the attack, the young man spoke of being 'calm', of 'thinking about nothing', and of 'not wanting to let everybody down' . He only decided not to detonate his device when, in the seconds before, he heard his potential victims talking with his home town accent. In that instant, those he was about to kill became human once again, he said, and he could go no further, and gave himself up."

Jason Burke: Omar was a normal British teenager who loved his little brother and Man Utd. So why at 24 did he plan to blow up a nightclub in central London?. In: The Observer Magazine, 20.01.2008. Part 1, Part 2.

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