The Cult of the Suicide Bomber – part 1 - Channel 4, 4 Aug 2005 21:00

[Benbow]

Am going to try to see as many of these as I can. IMV, we can't stop suicide bombers until we understand how it starts.

http://www.channel4.com/life/microsites/N/newworldwar/index.html

"The terror attacks in London on 7 and 21 July resulted in 52 people murdered, four suicide bombers dead and Britain's biggest ever police operation to track down the individuals and organisations behind them. Now we face the challenge of understanding what drives people to such appalling acts against civilians and what can be done to prevent them. Channel 4's wide-ranging season of programmes investigates the history and evolution of suicide bombing, and its impact on Muslims and non-Muslims in Britain and internationally."

[D-Notice]

1. What is there to "understand"?

These people are just plain EVIL - there's no point in understanding why they do what they do, it's just due to evilness. We have to wipe them out, it's the only way we'll defeat 'em...

:sarcasm:

[Woody Box]

2. What suicide bombers?

"we can't stop suicide bombers until we understand how it starts."

Could you please refresh your level of knowledge, Benbow?

The evidence is compelling: The terrorists bought return rail tickets, and pay and display car park tickets, before boarding _ a train at Luton for London. None of the men was heard to cry "Allah Akhbar!" - "God is great" - usually screamed by suicide bombers as they detonate their bomb.

Our source disclosed: "The theory that they were not a suicide squad is gathering pace. They were the weakest link.


http://tinyurl.com/cxhq5


"We do not have hard evidence that the men were suicide bombers," a Scotland Yard spokesman told The Sunday Telegraph. "It is possible that they did not intend to die."


http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/printpage/0,5481,15961272,00.html

But in recent days, police officials are increasingly considering the possibility that the men did not plan to commit suicide and were duped into dying.

Investigators raising doubts about the suicide assumption have cited plenty of evidence to support the theory. Each of the four men who died in the July 7 attacks purchased round-trip railway tickets from Luton, a city north of the capital, to London. The rented car of one of the bombers, Germaine Lindsay, that was left in Luton had a seven-day parking sticker on the dashboard. A large quantity of explosives were stored in the trunk of that car, perhaps for another attack. Another bomber had just spent a large sum to repair his car.

The men carried driver's licenses and other ID cards with them to their deaths, unusual for suicide bombers. In addition, none left behind a note, videotape or Internet trail as suicide bombers have done in the past. The bombers' families were baffled by what seemed to be their decisions to kill themselves.


http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/07/27/news/bombers.php