Swedish Terrorist Identified

(Stockholm, Sweden) According to documents seized along the Iraq-Syrian border by U.S. troops, a Tunisian-born Swede known as Abu Mua'az left Stockholm in 2006 to become a fighter for the Islamic State of Iraq.

He travelled first to Egypyt, before moving on to Syria. Aside from a passport and driving licence, he also took with him $2,700, which he promptly handed over as a "donation" to a recruitment agent named Ashraf.

Asked about the nature of the work they intended carrying out in Iraq, many of the applicants stated that they wished to become martyrs, which is understood to mean that they were prepared to perform suicide missions. Abu Mua'az however indicated that he wished to be a "fighter."

The Swede's recruitment document is one of 606 such papers - the so-called Sinjar Records - published online by the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, New York.

The entire report of al-Qaeda foreign fighters in Iraq is downloadable from http://www.ctc.usma.edu/.

It is beyond odd that a person would have to pay to be recruited for suicide missions, I think. For many reasons, "Here's a bunch of money. Please, make me into a bomb," just doesn't seem to roll off the tongue.

Regarding 33-year-old Abu Mua'az, reportedly he and his wife are in the wind.