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Source: http://www.lefigaro.fr/english/20070903.WWW000000666_how_al_qa_idah_martyrs_enter_iraq.html
How Al-Qaeda "Martyrs" Enter Iraq
[Le Figaro-France] Georges Malbrunot - Le Figaro interviewed volunteers for suicide operations and jihadists back from Baghdad. "Shehada [martyrdom] guarantees you access to heaven. Who does not want to go there?" the imam of a neighborhood mosque in Al-Zarqa, Jordan, explained. "When you die as a martyr, the first drop of blood that you shed washes away all your sins!" Within four years, despite the strict restrictions imposed by the authorities, some 600 Jordanians have gone to Iraq to take part in the jihad, according to officials of the Salafist movement in Amman. There are also hundreds of Algerians, Saudis, Yemenis, Palestinians from Lebanon, and Syrians there, who all set off "to combat the occupation of a Muslim land."