Ali Abbas al Nidawi

From the news reports:

Ali quit school when he was 8 years old to help his father in the makeshift concrete stall ...

Ali liked to collect pictures of the great Shiite Muslim martyrs and he displayed them proudly when he worked. ...

Sometimes when business was slow - as it usually was - Ali would sneak off to a nearby shop to a play shoot-'em-up videogames. Teen boys at the shop recalled that Ali liked to joke around and play "Counter-Strike."

Ali liked to swim and ride bikes. He also maintained a small collection of cheap but ornate clocks. His father said he liked the designs. ...

"He was a very good boy," his father said.

KR 31 May 2004