] BEIRUT (Reuters) - Salaam went to Iraq to do battle with
] Americans and die a martyr. He returned home with
] shrapnel wounds and tales of fighting U.S. military might
] with a rifle.
]
] From a Baghdad hotel he moved to a training camp where
] volunteers practiced shooting and trench warfare. Then
] Salaam, 24 years old and unemployed, was sent to war.
]
] "I was sleeping behind mounds of sand and firing from
] Kalashnikovs on helicopters. It was craziness," he said.
]
] "We stayed at the front five days and we didn't eat
] anything. I saw two dead bodies shot in the head."
]
] Thousands of volunteers from across the Arab world are
] thought to be in Iraq to fight advancing U.S. and British
] forces. On Wednesday, jubilant Iraqis welcomed U.S.
] troops in Baghdad.
]
] Salaam, a Lebanese Shi'ite Muslim, said he was unprepared
] for the hostility of some Iraqis to volunteers like
] himself.
]
] "I went there to be a martyr, not to be murdered by a
] brother," he told Reuters. "We went there to help them
] liberate their country, and all they did was shoot us in
] the back."
]
] "I am not afraid of the Americans. On the contrary I want
] to fight them. But I was scared of the Iraqis,
] specifically those who call themselves the Iraqi
] opposition," he said.

I love how he says he went to Iraq for jihad and then later he says he's not normally religious.

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