Yet another interesting detail about Annie Jacobsen’s famous Northwest flight 327. From the Washington Times:
The Syrian singer of a band that was detained by the FBI’s Terrorism Task Force for suspicious activity during a recent flight to Los Angeles has written about the “glorification” of suicide bombers to liberate Palestine.
Singer Nour Mehana’s latest album includes the song “Um El Shaheed,” or “Mother of a Martyr,” said Aluma Dankowitz of the Middle East Media Research Institute.
The song tells the story of a woman who mourned her son’s death until she realized that “he died for a good cause and he should be glorified for what he did,” said Miss Dankowitz, who translated the song for The Washington Times.
Mr. Mehana, widely known as the Syrian Wayne Newton, sings to the mother that her son’s goals are heroic and she should be happy he is dead.
“The song opens with the depiction of a mother crying over her son. He has said goodbye to his friends and family and is not going to come back. He went with a weapon in one palm and his heart in another palm and he’s not going to come back,” Miss Dankowitz said. “He went to fight to free Palestine, Golan Heights and South Lebanon.”
The song ends with chants of “Allahu akbar,” or “God is great,” a common Muslim expression. Those were the last words shouted by a September 11 hijacker before the plane crashed into a Pennsylvania field and have been the last words of many suicide bombers in Israel.