Posted on 12/14/2004 7:40:43 PM PST by Critical Bill
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14, 2004 There appears to be an almost endless supply of fighters willing to die for their cause in Iraq. Suicide bombers have routinely struck U.N. buildings, hotels, and checkpoints since the end of major combat in the country.
The weapon of choice is usually an explosive-packed automobile, but explosive vests have been used as well. U.S. intelligence officials say the majority of the bombers are not foreign fighters, as many believe. "The big myth is that there's an endless supply of suicide bombers, that the foreign fighters are everywhere. That's the story everybody wants to hear, and Iraqis don't want to admit that some of [the suicide bombers] might be Iraqis," said Brig. Gen. John Custer, director of intelligence for U.S. Central Command.
Just today, a suicide car bomber killed seven people at a Green Zone checkpoint early today in Baghdad, Iraq. It was the second attack in two days near the same gate into the district that houses Iraq's interim government and the U.S. Embassy, officials said.
Unwilling Martyrs
The recent assault on the former insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, U.S. military-led raids on private Iraqi homes, and military bombings that have killed Iraqi civilians have radicalized young Iraqis.
"The deaths of their own families, the destruction of their homes all these are leading to frustration and anger and hopelessness, and they want the enemy to feel the same frustration and hopelessness, so they are resorting to this violence," said Muqtedar Khan, visiting fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution and an expert in political Islam.
But it also appears that not all of the bombers are willing participants. U.S. military officials have found body parts in vehicles used in suicide bombings left by the frantic people who were trapped inside, unable to flee.
"What we've found in a number of places are hands chained to a steering wheel," Custer said. "We found a foot roped into the car unable to escape."
He said in some cases, it appeared that men were forced to carry out suicide bombers because their families were being held hostage.
"We've seen a number of incidents where wives [and] children kidnapped [the] fathers forced to drive a car, even so far as to have a car following it with a remote," Custer said.
And U.S. commanders say they are seeing a new tactic in the field insurgents sending two suicide bombers to launch an attack, in case the first one backs out.
What hacks me off is the Left couldn't really give a damn about our troops, they say they do but they really see them as redneck ber swilling baby-killers. They adopt a cause and any will do, whatever is 'IN" because it makes them feel good. They are usually low on self esteem and easily swayed by peers. Older LLL's just want some cause to stop the boredom of the dull life they find themselves in from years of self-deprivation (i.e meat cigs etc) and a relationship that bores them to tears. They are the ones you see standing behind someone (waving)who is being interviewed live on Fox& Friends etc and are usually pretending to be on the phone to someone. I could throttle them all quite easily.
Muslim healthcare = Not blowing themselves UP...
This implies that a suicide bomber has a mind. An invalid assumption IMO.
Inside the Mind of a Suicide Bomber... you will find the "holy" Koran.
It's a very limited mind-set. Group think by the MSM is not a pretty sight. The bizarre part is that they think themselves mentally superior, while they live in a little aquarium, swimming around with only their kind, breathing the same water and ingesting the same food, and yet aren't aware that finally their glass walls can be seen through by the outsiders.
Great link thanx
Yep, take care.
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