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"A Misguided Youth"
Born to a Jordanian town, that while quaintly profound and not greatly renowned ..
.. was rich in resolve,
Ahmed watched as his city evolved.
Often he’d cast a gaze over the vast array of placid grey ..
.. building’s that masqueraded, as the al-Ma’ssoum slum he had fast became -
Accustomed to.
Before he’d thrust his new, books into, ..
.. his carry-bag, and began the mile long journey on foot to school.
Ahmed was an indifferent student,
Who often would sit alone ..
.. His playground; The municipal cemetery opposite his home.
When mother found him kicking stones- “There’s nothing to do,” he would report,
.. Before she smacked him for scuffing the only shoes we could afford.
Ahmed hankered purpose,
His rebellious streak began to surface ..
.. and he turned juvenile delinquent, with intentions to leave this languid circus.
His gambit earnest,
At least up til his arrest where it’s proven -
An adult Ahmed was influenced by the Salafist-Jihadist Movement.
Captivated by the stories portrayed, in glorious ways ..
.. and local mosques, preaching radical Islam to all us who prayed.
Ahmed left for Kandahar, where he then made a pact ..
.. with bin Laden. The maniac, offering him a training camp.
It was here Ahmed changed his name, to one more common to you and me ..
Calling himself “Abu Musab al-Zarqawi”.
A name that strikes fear in our hearts to the beat of a taut drum,
“Abu Musab” meaning “Father of Musab” - His fourth son ..
.. “al-Zarqawi” because Zarqa’s the city he’s spawned from,
And from his Training Camp in Herat, his leadership was forth run.
With the invasion of Iraq,
And allied tanks roaming forth, in droves and hordes ..
.. al-Zarqawi chose to pour, his gross support, into igniting “Holy War”.
The primarial reason Zarqawi was known to state, over tapes …
.. was that “The great lie known as democracy,” diametrically opposed his faith.
When his ultimatums weren’t met, he would stick to his word ..
.. which led most noteably to the cruel be-heading of Nicholas Berg.
The U.S stripped and searched the Middle East’s continued plight ..
.. until finally,
they succeeded in killing him on June the ninth.
A tragic tale of misguided youth, yet those who do not know the past are doomed to repeat it.
Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi
October 22nd 1967 – June 9th 2006-06-17
Rest In Peace
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