Please Let Me Marry Her and Then Kill Me

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"Please let me marry her and then kill me" – those words torture a man who has no regrets but one.

He was a killer imprisoned in Camp Bucca; his daily nightmares forced him to quit sleeping and to cry, tears that I doubt will make up for the one victim of his that he regrets, as he forgets the others. Other prisoners around him didn’t ask one question, as he was a member of the feared Al Qaeda organization in Iraq.

Days later, the man's nightmares kept taking his sleep away, one day they asked him and he talked.

He told them how he killed a young man in Al Anbar province west of Iraq.

This killer along with his gang stopped cars and buses on the highway passing through Al Anbar to Jordan and Syria. He said he took aside one of the men to kill.

He was begging the killer not to kill him, his tears were not in fear of death, were not to beg to spare his life, it was for the sake of the woman he loved.

"Please let me marry her then kill me" the killer recalled him saying."
Inside Iraq