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353: INSIDE THE MIND OF A SUICIDE BOMBER – Willingly or Unwillingly – Facts and Limbs

27 August, 2008

INSIDE THE MIND OF A SUICIDE BOMBER – Willingly or Unwillingly – Facts and Limbs

ABC-News Tuesday 14^th December 2004

Daniel: Know how mad-men so-called Religious Leaders and Warriors manipulate and exploit others to further their aims of further future manipulations and exploitations.

WASHINGTON: There appeared to be almost an endless supply of fighters – willing to die for their cause in Iraq. Suicide bombers had routinely struck UN buildings, hotels and check-points since the end of major combat in the country.

The weapons of choice were usually explosive-packed automobiles, but explosive vests had been used as well. However, the majority of the bombers were not foreign fighters, as many believed.

The big myth was that there was an endless supply of suicide bombers and that the foreign fighters were everywhere. That was the story everybody wanted to hear, and the Iraqis did not want to admit that most of the suicide bombers] were, in fact, Iraqis.

On that day, Tues. 14^th Dec., a suicide car bomber killed seven people at a Green Zone check-point in Baghdad. It was the second attack in two days near the same gate into the district that houses Iraq's interim government and the US Embassy.

Unwilling Martyrs

The previous assaults on the former insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, raids on private Iraqi homes, and military bombings that had killed Iraqi civilians radicalized young Iraqis. A visiting fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution and an expert in political Islam said that the deaths of their own families, the destruction of their homes – all of those had led to frustration and anger and hopelessness, and they wanted the enemy to feel the same frustration and hopelessness, so they resorted to violence. But it also appeared that not all of the bombers were willing participants.

U.S. and Iraqi military officials found body parts in vehicles used in suicide bombings – left by frantic people who had been trapped inside, unable to flee. They found hands chained to steering wheels, and feet bound with ropes in cars – unable to escape.

In some cases, it appeared that men were forced to carry out suicide bombings because their families were being held hostage. There were quite a number of incidents where – with their wives and children kidnapped -- fathers were forced to drive a car holding a dud remote-control device, thinking they would blow themselves up, whereas there would be a car following it with the real remote-control device.

New tactics in the field: insurgents would send two separate suicide bombers to launch an attack, in case the first one backed out.

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