In the March 9, 2003 NY Times Magazine section....
>>''We have a few jihads we can do: Palestine, Chechnya, Kashmir or Iraq,'' O says. ''Palestine is too difficult. You can't get across the border. Chechnya, they already have enough people. Kashmir is easiest.''
''Yes,'' Fadi says. ''You fly to Pakistan, and someone will help you to Kashmir.'' >>
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ENCOUNTER
Loves Microsoft, Hates America
By ADAM DAVIDSON
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/09/magazine/09ENCOUNTER.html?ex=1048242195&ei=1&en=8b2a6989339f9bf8
adi is a 23-year-old unemployed computer programmer who lives in his parents' apartment in a nice, middle-class neighborhood in Amman, Jordan. Down one street is the big Amman McDonald's, down another is Fadi's mosque, where he prays several times a day. Stocky, with a big, messy beard, Fadi speaks softly, hunched over, looking at the ground. When he makes an important point, he asks you to repeat it, and when you show you understand, he lifts his head, leans back with a great smile and says, ''Sah,'' ''correct.'' One day, he explained to me in careful detail why he wants to be a shaheed, a suicide bomber against the United States, quoting at length from the Koran. But when he's not talking about blowing himself up and killing American troops, Fadi talks about his other great dream. ''I want to be a programmer at Microsoft,'' he says. ''Not just a programmer. I want to be well known, famous.''
Fadi gives me a tour of his parents' apartment: it is long and narrow, with a private living room for the family and another, more ornate one, for guests. Fadi's bedroom is in the back, and it is small and bare. Everything Fadi has on display sits on a small desk: a copy of the Koran, in blue leather with ornate gold Arabic script on the cover, and a few boxes of audiotapes that he listens to every day.