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How did this Saudi student abroad become an ISIS suicide belt-maker
2017-01-11
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] How did Tayea Salem Yaslam al-Sayari go from being a former engineering scholarship student, to become a terrorist fighting in Syria and later one of the most dangerous ISIS members in Soddy Arabia?
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
Many have tried to study characters like al-Sayari and examine how they go from having a promising future as a student to becoming an expert in making kaboom and training future jacket wallahs.

How was he able to return to Saudi Arabia?
Sayari, in his 30s, who failed his studies in engineering in New Zealand, went straight to Syria in 2014 to join the fighting. He then left Syria and headed to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
and then on to Sudan using a fake passport. While in Sudan, he met with Oqab al-Otaibi, one of the most desperados who was recently killed in Saudi. From Sudan, he headed to Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
and then entered Saudi illegally.

Tayea al-Sayari’s name first surfaced when Saudi authorities investigated the attack on a mosque used by the Special Emergency Force in Asir in August 2015. The suicide kaboom in the mosque claimed by ISIS killed 15 force employees and recruits.

Criminal psychology expert Doctor Nasser al-Arifi said Sayari’s character reflected the case of a "stupid" man and noted that his ability to make boom belts did not mean he was smart. Instead Arifi said it showed Sayari had a "docile personality" who lacked the motivation to be positively "productive" in society.

He added that Sayari’s insufficient intelligence made him think that taking the path into terrorism meant satisfying his desires to be a "leader" in his subconscious mind.

Arifi said Sayari’s aggressive tendency to avenge society was due to emotional coldness, adding that this implied a "psychopathic tendency" which meant the person suffered from abnormal social behavior and broke conventional laws and ethics.

Posted by:Fred

#3   the case of a "stupid" man and noted that his ability to make boom belts did not mean he was smart. ....Sayari, in his 30s, who failed his studies in engineering in New Zealand

Okay, I can equate stupid with failing, what I can't equate is stupid with matriculating in the first place.
Posted by: AlanC   2017-01-11 16:30  

#2  Same as the one flight pilots on 9/11.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-01-11 07:51  

#1  How did Tayea Salem Yaslam al-Sayari go from being a former engineering scholarship student, to become a terrorist fighting in Syria and later one of the most dangerous ISIS members in Soddy Arabia?

I'll take Islam for $1,000, Alex.
Posted by: Crusader   2017-01-11 00:55  

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