European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 20, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Deadly Mission for Mohammed continued from Page 13 Learned of Burros the israeli army approved a 90minute interview with Burro in a Tel Aviv with out any interference but in the presence of military per Burro was nervous at the Start of the which was conducted entirely in but gradually warmed up As time passed and he appeared to speak he As israeli officials put just a what follows is his the enlistment i was born in 1969 in the Southern suburbs of said our financial conditions at Home were not i am the Middle i had two younger and two older my father worked As a traffic policeman in the Southern Burros family lived in a three room apartment for which his father paid about a he like Many poor shiite Burro he quit school in the fifth Grade to help support his he said he worked for several years for a Telephone company but lost the Job last May when fighting closed the after Drifting for several he he was hired by the civil defense brigade of the shiite militia amal As a amal is the largest and most powerful shiite political movement and militia in Lebanon it controlled Burros Burro said his work in the amal civil defense brigade involved saving people in collapsed buildings and put Ting out because of the breakdown of municipal services in such tasks Are not performed by the and it is popular work among a few months ago Burro was Riding his motor Cycle and had an he the he eventually led him into his suicide in Lawless accidents Are often adjudicated on the spot Between the two Drivers the ultimate in no fault frequently the matter is resolved on the basis of who draws a gun in this Case Burro was clearly at he knew it was going to Cost seeking he he contacted a Man named Abu who was the amal Security chief in the Southern Abu Hassan closed the file on the Burro it is not Clear what Abu Hassan but he got Burro out of trouble and put him in his a few months Burro said he continued his work with then another Accident this time involving his my father ran Over a Young woman with his said he injured his head badly and was not the same the Young woman parents demanded that the Burro family pay All her medical Bills and additional Money As Burro the he left his father in need of an opera Tion his father had to borrow lebanese pounds the equivalent of and an enormous sum for his family to pay his medical he still needed a second operation for which he had no at the same the girls family was pressing them for Burro said others then went to Abu Hassan and told him about the family this was in Early he a few Days Burro Abu Hassan sent a messenger to telling him to come to his office for a the Burro was a carefully balanced combination of inducements and it went some thing like according to Burro you know your father had this Accident with this Abu Hassan and your financial conditions Are not it Cost a lot of Abu Hassan then began to Tell him in detail about the financial situation of his father and How the problems could be we have the Power to take care of he tomorrow your father is going to be fired from his Job and your family will have we have every thing in our the future of your family is in your Burro answered what what Are you talking about How can i help my family Abu Hassan said we Are suggesting a suicide Mission for what do you think about it think about the future of your family is in your Burro said his first reaction to Abu has sans suggestion had been to reject he had no interest in being a he at that according to Abu Hassan got the youth was told that if he did not agree to the suicide Abu Hassan would cause problems for his father and reopen the file on his motorcycle Abu Hassan also apparently hinted that he was ready to Cut off Burros Only source of income with the amal civil defense Burro made it Clear that he had terrified of Abu Hassan and of what he might do to his i knew then and there that i would have no Choice but to say the youth i knew what would happen if i said when their talk was Abu Hassan informed Burro that their entire conversation was very secret and that he was to Tell no especially not his Burro Burro spent a week and thinking the matter not telling anyone in his family about he his father was clearly in a desperate the one Point in the interview at which Burro became Mist eyed was in talking about his relationship with his i love my father very he his blood is my he my father is like everything for me like a brother for after a week and a half of thinking about Little Burro he returned to Abu has sans office to give his i told i accept a suicide he the reason i did was financial incentives and because they obligated it was not out of any after he had agreed to the suicide said a very pleased Abu Hassan told him we will help your we will finish with this we will help we will close the file on All of and everything will be while Burro did not Tell his family about his he did Tell five of his male friends in the amal civil de sense he his friends tried to talk him out of Burro the Prospect of suicide clearly had a stigma to his Abu Hassan told Burro that he should not worry so much about the suicide aspect of the the youth in Burro Abu Hassan told him he had a 5050 Chance of surviving the car bomb because he would be Given a special flak jacket that would protect in according to Abu Hassan said a steel Grid would be installed around the Drivers seat to separate him from the Burro said he had not been particularly convinced by they told me maybe i will maybe i will recalled they did not specify my the training begins before Burro could be sent to his Abu Hassan apparently Felt he needed preparation in certain to begin Burro did not have a Drivers License and had apparently never driven a Abu Hassan arranged for two Days of driving lessons around the Southern they instructed me How to drive a car in explained it was a Mer but Abu Hassan was apparently More concerned about Burros Lack of religious convictions the fact that he said he occasionally ate pork and had gone to the shiite prayer Center Only five times in his moslem Are supposed to Pray five times a Day and never eat Abu Hassan put Burro in touch with some local shiite religious seemingly to instill in him some religious his first meeting was with a local shiite religious figure by the name of Haj Ali Kamal Burro de scribed the session this Way Abu Hassan took me to he gave me religious one lesson was that when a Martyr Dies he Doest feel he said to me you wont feel you will continue to you dont feel you can die but you a photo photo from to of Sana my Elleh during interview with 16yearold just before her suicide a photo comrades aiding buddy wounded during suicide car bombing of Marine Center in Beirut in dont feel he said after the death its not really you will meet All of your the and you will live together in he said in this world there is there is no reason for Burro apparently was not put at ease by Haj he said he told the religious Leader after the lesson but i have not seen anything from my life to which he quoted Haj Ali As this worldly life is nothing compared to after the first class with Haj Burro he went Back to Abu has sans Abu Hassan questioned me about my nerves and other questions about the youth i said to what is this so they took me Back to Haj a for another religious Abu Hassan then sent him to a More prominent religious Sheik Hassan Burro described their saying i told i am going to do an operation and i might live or die in he Burro said he and the Sheik had written a contract of sorts in which the Sheik agreed to pay someone to Pray for me for two years after my this known As is Well known in shiite since shiite religious leaders Are believed to have a special link with if a Sheik promises that on top of All his blessings he is going to endow someone with the authority to Pray for a persons it Means that the per sons memory will remain in the heart of his people and that the prayers will also be a constant reminder of the persons existence to god it is not like the Kad dish in in which loved ones accept a death by extolling the greatness and omnipotence of it serves As a reminder to god of the what he did in this world and the Reward that should come to him in the i did not Benefit from these religious Burro said with slight in my i was not con at this Israel was beginning its withdrawal from Southern the Battle there was heating up and there was heated Competition Between amal and the party of god Over who would dominate the on Abu Hassan came with another named to inform Burro that his Day had the youth it was a senior intelligence operative in the amal Security it was apparently his Job to arrange for the exploding car and to get it to the they asked me if i was ready to i told them that i am not i not Abu Hassan and Burro decided to give him until the next apparently recognizing his Ner they came a second Day and told me to come to the office of the amal civil said i told but i have not yet seen my Mother and my Broth Abu Hassan and Nour were apparently not about to let Burro engage in any they took him to the civil defense he and there the plan for the suicide Mission began to be put into the Mission from the amal civil defense Burro two cars set off for the trip to Southern Burro Rode in a Volvo with two men named Abu Ali and whom he had not previously he in the Lead a he were Nour and a Man named according to his they drove in one Day from Beirut to Sidon and then to a Small shiite Village Between Sidon and it was being used As an Advance staging Post by amal for operations against israeli israeli troops raided the Village on March killing 34 people described As shiite on the Burro he was informed of his he was he to drive the suicide car at the israeli military command Headquarters for the West Ern and Central sectors of Southern which was situated on a Hilltop in a rundown former lebanese army Barracks on the outskirts of about 100 israeli soldiers worked at the Headquarters we Are suggesting a suicide Mission for a militia official what do you think about it think about the future of your family is in your on a daily basis before it was evacuated in the israeli pullout from if he could not reach the Burro he was to blow up the car next to an israeli army Convoy or they said the car would have 400 kilograms of int inside it and that it would destroy All the Homes and people in a radius of two Square said they said i should not be frightened by this if i saw civilians beside me or behind i should not be i should just go they told dont be afraid to blow up the in the cars stopped and Nour and Malik had a conversation at the Side of the Road in which Nour provided details about the car Burro i never saw the exploding said i just heard them talking about they said there was a but ton on the left of the steering wheel and a Button on the the one on the right was for operating and the one on the left for they had not Given me any instructions about the car i just heard Nour and Malik talking about i was on the he said it was an american according to israeli military some of the cars used for suicide bombings in Lebanon have had two one is pushed when the Driver gets into the and it ensures the bomb will explode if the car is turned off at any this guarantees that the Driver will not Back out at the last the Button on the left gives the Driver the manual ability to detonate the bomb at the right other car such As the one used against the american marines in Are believed to have been detonated by a Remote control radio signal by someone nearby so there would be no problem if the Driver lost his nerve or was shot in the group split Abu Ali and Khuder were to stay in while Malik and Burro were to drive together to sir Al a Small Village farther Burro recalled their they kissed said they wished me god i would have a blessed that i  feel they god you will live in Paradise and meet All your they told dont be i was not believing the whole i was just not thinking about the whole Burro and Malik then took off for the where they were to go to the Home of a local amal Burro they arrived after Malik told Burro to sleep there and that he would pick him up the next morning at the youth but the rendezvous would not take an unexpected search shortly after Dawn that next the israeli army launched a search operation in sir Elgar which is in the area of Southern Lebanon from which they had withdrawn a few Days at Burro he started running with a group of Young men from the some of whom were gunned Burro said he had managed to Duck into someones israeli troops came to the he and asked me where i was i i am from they give us your they took me to the in the school there was a room for they asked me when i had and i told they put me in the Middle of the room and they were interrogating looking at me and Here i am in Tel in their search of sir Al israeli troops discovered a car already rigged for a suicide according to israeli military whether it was the one Burro was meant to drive is not Early in a 16yearold girl drove an exploding car into an israeli checkpoint along the Awali River at Bater killing herself and two israeli the next a film was released in West Bei rut and later broadcast on syrian television of what was described As an interview with the 16yearold Driver shortly before her the film showed a Sana appealing to other youths of Southern Lebanon to follow her what was striking from the film was the absence of religious the fact that she was wearing a red Beret often worn by lebanese leftist militias and that she appeared to be sitting below a sign of the syrian National socialist a leftist lebanese militia that takes its orders from the Idle said she was Happy to give my life for Hafez the syrian like the Idle said she had not told her parents what she was about to and in the film she made a somewhat sorrowful apology to her Mother and father for not being Able to say Given All and the rather rehearsed nature of her statements she appeared to be Reading from a Board next to the camera it seems Likely that she too was a secular Young person recruited by unidentified agents on the basis of her psychological one thing seems certain that like was working for no one seemed to want to kill himself less than Mohammed Mahmoud while he certainly does not enjoy being an israeli his happiness at simply being alive today is when asked if he Felt angry that his Mission had been he smiled broadly and on the i feel asked if he would like to say anything to his which he probably will not see for some Burro thought for a moment and then said softly Tell them that i am Mohammed and i am born Page the stars and stripes april the stars and stripes Page 15