article_snippet: (CNN)A teenage Australian jihadist suspected of having carried out an ISIS suicide attack developed a hatred for the West over the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, before settling on radical Islam as a vehicle for "violent global revolution," according to his purported blog.
article_snippet: Jake Bilardi, an 18-year-old student from Melbourne, appears to have documented his path to radicalization and his experiences in ISIS-held territory in a blog, titled "From the eyes of a Mujahir:
article_snippet: An Australian Mujahir in the land of the Khilafah.
article_snippet: The blogger writes that it was The blogger reading on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and abuses committed by occupying forces, "that gave birth to my disdain for the United States and the United States allies, including Australia.
article_snippet: The wars "signaled the beginning of my complete hatred and opposition to the entire system Australia and the majority of the world was based upon," he wrote.
article_snippet: In one of the blog posts, the blogger says that the warm welcome Jake and other foreign fighters had received in the Islamic State disproved "the Australian government's laughable claim that we are used as 'cannon fodder'.
highlights_snippet: An Australian teen suspected of an ISIS suicide bombing left behind a purported blog .
  
highlights_snippet: An Australian teen suspected of an ISIS suicide bombing traces his path to radicalization, seeking to destroy the democratic West before finding Islam .
  