A suicide bombing wait list?

Saudi members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant are apparently using nepotism to ensure friends and family members get bumped to the top of suicide bombing wait lists, according to a frustrated Chechen extremist.

In a recent post on the website Qonah, believed to be linked to a Chechen ISIL battalion, a poster named Kamil Abu Sultan ad-Daghestani complained Chechens are being robbed of their hard-earned chance to blow themselves up because of the Saudis.

Abu Sultan wrote that one of these fighters told his leader, “Those Saudis have got things sewn up. They won’t let anyone in. They are letting their relatives go to the front of the line using blat (connections),” according a translation on the Radio Free Europe website.

A recent ISIL guidebook explicitly mentioned the high supply of suicide bombers, telling potential “martyrs” to be patient after their training period, as they’d have to deal with a waiting list. Some militants get so desperate to get to the top of the list, they’ve travelled to different battlefield area in hopes of speeding up the process, according to the post.