A week after a blast near Delhi's iconic Red Fort claimed 13 lives, a self-recorded video of the bomber, Dr Umar Mohammad alias Umar-un-Nabi, has emerged. In what is arguably the first peek into the thought process of Delhi bomber Dr Umar Mohammad alias Umar-un-Nabi, the video shows him talking about suicide bombing and "martyrdom".
"One of the very misunderstood concepts is the concept of what has been labelled as suicide bombing. It is a martyrdom operation... known in Islam. Now, there are multiple contradictions; there are multiple arguments that have been brought against it," the young doctor is heard saying in the video. He adds in the video that a "martyrdom" operation is one in which a person presumes that he is going to die at a particular place and time.