When do half-dazed goofballs carry out terrorist attacks?

[Truth2Tell]

When they are cannon-fodder? Or Patsies?

[snagglepuss]

1. According to expert interviewed in one of the Uk papers

he was sedated so as not to appear anxious which explains why an Indian man accompanied him in Amsterdam. The expert opined that his being sedated is the reason he failed to prepare the explosive properly which is why it failed to explode.

[Truth2Tell]

3. I thought these jihad-is had guys lining up out the door

ready to blow themselves up for the cause? No? Surely they can find guys they don't have to sedate and with IQs higher than hamsters? Seems like with a few phone calls they rounded-up 19 gung-ho recruits for 9-11, some of 'em pretty smart. They've got 'em flowing over the borders into Iraq and Afghanistan right? If these airliner bombings are supposed to be "Al Qaeda's" next big play, why don't they send their A-team?

:shrug:

[snagglepuss]

4. Resorting to hyperbole doesn't change the facts. nt

[Truth2Tell]

9. What facts? nt

[timeforpeace]

12. The most important thing is that we know or believe he did have a handler and that person will be

the subject of a worldwide manhunt. We hope.

[Way2go]

2. Because they probably wouldn't go along with the plan

if their handler didn't sedate them. In the old days, Patsies were mui macho - e.g. Oswald.

[ThomWV]

5. Last week I watched a documentary on Link TV about the attacks on Mumbai - saw it there too

They had intercepts of telephone calls between the killers in the hotels and elsewhere and whoever it was that directed them. The "terrorists had to be constantly prodded into action. At one point one of the gunmen was talking on the phone and his leader was hollering at him to get with it and shoot some people and start some fires but all the guy kept saying was 'you should see the huge glass windows'. He couldn't believe how big the windows were in the hotel - he was awed by them.

And that was the caliber of the men who drive the every activity of much of Government, this is what we fear. Some guys with guns who's level of sophistication doesn't reach to picture windows.

[malaise]

6. He sure looked sedated

just as well.

[lame54]

7. who else are you gonna convince to strap a bomb to their nut-sack?

[Truth2Tell]

8. Just ask the Israelis,

plenty of guys who don't have to be sedated apparently. In Afghanistan too.

[lame54]

10. aren't they usually on their chests?

[Truth2Tell]

11. So it was the nuts part that required the sedation

and the use of an idiot? It seems to me that once you've decided to go out that way the exact location of the bomb wouldn't really be a super big deal.

[lame54]

13. imagine that conversation...

"you want it where?"