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Abu Khalid Al-Qatari, from Qatar. Killed when ambushed by Croatian forces in Bosnia in 1993. Aged mid twenties. 1st hand account. Present on In the Hearts of Green Birds.
A member of the Qatar National Handball team, he came to Bosnia at the end of 1992. He used to love doing double guard duty shifts for 4 hours in the cold weather. He was a very humble and very pious brother. He was of black descent but brothers described his face like a glowing lamp because of the shine and Noor on his face. He had two large marks of prostration on his face due to prolonged prostration, as he used to pray all night long. Once he was asked, "When will you return back to your country, Abu Khalid?" And he replied, "I want to be Shaheed here." Abu Khalid once said to a brother, "Back in Qatar, I bought some fighting clothes to go and fight in Afghanistan, but my mother prevented me from going. But, insha-Allah, this time, with these same clothes, I will be killed in Bosnia." Before one operation against the Croats, as soon as he was picked by the Ameer, he said to the brother next to him, "Insha-Alllah, this time ALLAH will take me as Shaheed." As he was travelling in a car with five other brothers, of them Wahiudeen al-Misree, the Ameer of the Mujahideen (RA), they took a wrong turning and ventured 7km into enemy territory. The Croats shot at the car with anti-aircraft weapons and it blew 20 feet into the air. All of the five brothers got out and fought until they were killed. When their bodies were returned to the Mujahideen after two months, the brothers were able to identify four of them but they could not identify the body of Abu Khalid Al-Qatari. When the Bosnian army general said to them, "This is your last man.", they looked at the body and saw that this body was that of a white person with a white face, and they replied, "This is not our brother: our brother had black skin." Upon looking carefully at this body, they pulled down his shirt and noticed that from below the neck downwards, its skin was black. They pulled up his sleeve and they found that above the elbows it was black and below the elbows it was white. Then they pulled up his trousers, where they found that his feet were white but the skin above his ankles was black. One of the brothers commented on this, saying that as the Hadith of Rasoolullah (SAWS) goes about the signs of the believers on the Day of Resurrection, the marks of Wudu were shining white on the body of Abu Khalid al-Qatari. May ALLAH (SWT) accept him amongst the Shuhadaa'. |