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It was not immediately clear what the precise target of Tuesday’s bombing was. However, an interview the suicide bomber gave that is now airing on a militant-run radio station suggests the young man resented his peers for going abroad to study.

“Now those who live abroad are taken to a college and never think about the hereafter. They never think about the harassed Muslims,” said the man, identified by al-Shabab as Bashar Abdullahi Nur. “He wakes up in the morning, goes to college and studies and accepts what the infidels tell him, while infidels are massacring Muslims.”

Nur, who had dropped out of school, said he was “very happy with what he was about to do” and that he did not want to dwell much on the outcome of his action. He declared that he wanted to “please God.”

“Infidels tend to busy people with secular education, like the English language as we have seen. You will be preoccupied with secular education. You will be then distracted from the religion,” he said.

It was not immediately clear what the precise target of Tuesday’s bombing was. However, an interview the suicide bomber gave that is now airing on a militant-run radio station suggests the young man resented his peers for going abroad to study.

“Now those who live abroad are taken to a college and never think about the hereafter. They never think about the harassed Muslims,” said the man, identified by al-Shabab as Bashar Abdullahi Nur. “He wakes up in the morning, goes to college and studies and accepts what the infidels tell him, while infidels are massacring Muslims.”

Nur, who had dropped out of school, said he was “very happy with what he was about to do” and that he did not want to dwell much on the outcome of his action. He declared that he wanted to “please God.”

“Infidels tend to busy people with secular education, like the English language as we have seen. You will be preoccupied with secular education. You will be then distracted from the religion,” he said.

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