[quote]Otherwise the lives of the two young men have been dominated by the claustrophobia of their hovels outside Casablanca and the struggle to earn money in a community awash with drugs, prostitution and violence. Soon afterward they are seduced by the dangerously simple message of extremist Islam that turns them into suicide bombers.
On May 16, 2003, 12 young men — all around the age of 20 and from the Sidi Moumen slum — blew themselves up in an Italian restaurant, a Spanish restaurant, a luxury hotel, a club for the local Jewish population and a Jewish cemetery, killing 33 people.
The string of blasts that took place over five minutes shocked Morocco, which until then had been far from the headlines in the war on terror.
In the immediate aftermath, director Nabil Ayouch shot a documentary on the victims, but it was only much later that he realized there was an entire other side to the story.
"It took me years to understand that in this story the victims are on both sides, because the young boys that are just 20 years old and brainwashed and sent to be killed and to kill innocent people, are also victims," he told The Associated Press as the film was released in the U.S. "In this film I wanted to show the source of the violence — that violence doesn't come from the sky."[/quote]
source: [url]http://news.msn.com/in-depth/moroccan-film-follows-the-path-of-suicide-bombers[/url]
I hope I don't alienate myself by saying that I've always been interested in exactly what could make someone actually go through with a suicide bombing. I find this article very interesting, and there's much more to read about it in the source. I'm going to watch this movie, and I hope it gives me a better understanding of extremists' mindset when they carry out these atrocious acts.
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