Voices of Jihad - RAND Corporation

“The brothers slept for an hour while I stood watch. All of the brothers
were certain that they would be killed, but we preferred to fight
after resting. I then slept a sleep that I do not recall the like of in my
life, in terms of relaxation, calmness, and clarity of conscience. Praise
God.
“After that, we decided to attack them. We congregated and prayed
insistently to God that he should grant us support and the succor of His
soldiers. The plan was for all four of us to appear, and to stop the first
military vehicle that appears before us. Then Nimr and Hussein would
head to the vehicle and kill the dogs of America inside. I would head to
the Hummer to engage it, distracting it from the brothers. Nader was
to carry the remaining ammunition and place it in the vehicle because
it would impede fast movement. Then, if we take the vehicle, we would
drive it to the security cordon and engage with them.
“Voice of Jihad: How many soldiers were there, in your estimation?
“Al-Nashmi: In truth, there were a huge number of forces, armored
vehicles, Hummers, and other vehicles. We wanted to take a vehicle
because the security cordons were very long, measured in kilometers.
To penetrate them, we would need a vehicle to carry us and our
weapons.
“When we appeared from behind the trees, the soldiers were very
surprised, and looked at us as if we were ghosts. The first of us to
reach them was Nimr, who ran at a great speed as he fired at them and
shouted ‘God is greater.’ We engaged them and we won with God’s
help, His generosity, His mercy, and His munificence.
“The remaining soldiers around the site kept firing, and I am not
certain what they were firing at. Perhaps some of them were trying
their weapons for the first time!
“We disabled two Jeeps and killed those aboard. I killed the driver of
the third Jeep, and the vehicle rolled over several times. We were now
in the middle of the road and we could not find a vehicle to ride, so we
decided to enter into one of the nearby streets.
“Nimr took off with the speed of lightning and assumed a very difficult
combat position and engaged the Hummer. I watched the tracer
rounds that were fired from his weapon strike the turret gunner. We
crossed the street with the bullets flying around us as we returned fire.
It was a miracle from God and a weird blessing—we could see the bullets
pass between our legs and all around us, but we were not hit. Praise
to God alone.
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