It appear many of the suicide bombers in Iraq are not volunteers

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/09/21/iraq.main.ap/

Iraq says kidnappers use victims as unwitting bombers

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Insurgents are no longer using just volunteers to drive suicide car bombs but are instead kidnapping people with their cars, rigging the vehicles with explosives, and blowing them up remotely, the Defense Ministry said Thursday.

In what appears to be a new tactic for the insurgency, the ministry said the kidnap victims do not know their cars have been loaded with explosives when they are released.

The ministry issued a statement saying that first "a motorist is kidnapped with his car. They then booby trap the car without the driver knowing. Then the kidnapped driver is released and threatened to take a certain road."

The kidnappers follow the car and when the unwitting victim "reaches a checkpoint, a public place, or an army or police patrol, the criminal terrorists following the driver detonate the car from a distance," the Defense Ministry statement said.

There was no immediate comment from the U.S. military. In the past, U.S. officials have said insurgents often tape or handcuff a suicide driver's hands to a car, or bind his foot to the gas pedal, to ensure that he does not back out at the last minute.


I wonder who would do a thing like this?

[acmavm]

1. How would they know? There many suicide bombers around

to interrogate?

[Vincardog]

3. What is more important is how do you torture a dead Suicide bomber?

[notadmblnd]

2. I've had my suspicions for several years now, that many of these so called

"suicide bombers" are really murder victims. No only in Iraq, but in Palistine. It occured to me back when the pizza delivery guy claimed that he was taken and had a bomb strapped to him. He pleaded for help from the police. But no.. what did they do? they let him sit in a parking lot or something like that and let him explode.

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. Urban legend a -la Baghdad?