Young militants ready to die, eager to kill
Abdul Wali Fadaei is proud of his family history.
His father died when he drove an explosives-laden car into the capital's upscale Hotel Inter-Continental in 2011, a brazen attack that killed 18 people, including seven militants.
His brothers — he won't say how many or their ages — are studying to become suicide bombers.
Fadaei, 17, was arrested last year before he was able to detonate the explosives he'd transported in a Toyota from Kandahar to Kabul in order to kill Americans.
"The message my father left me when he became a martyr was that I should follow him," Fadaei said, speaking in a matter-of-fact tone while sitting on a thin mattress in a small, dank room in Kabul's government-run juvenile rehabilitation center.
"I regret my attack failed, but I gained by trying. I'll decide about trying again after I'm out."
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that really slow people down. Miss the first course in a composition and creative writing series, for example, and you can be pushed back a whole year. Higher education has a lot of problems, all over the world... 
(And I'm sure you're right about the brainwashing.)
