Posted on 07/17/2005 8:03:04 AM PDT by DogBarkTree
BRITISH police are considering the possibility that the four key suspects in last week's London attacks may have been tricked into setting off their bombs, a newspaper has reported.
"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." According to the paper, one police hypothesis is that the bombers were tricked by a "master" who told them they would have time to escape - when in fact the devices were set to go off immediately.
"The bombers' masters might have thought that they couldn't risk the four men being caught and spilling everything to British interrogators," an unnamed security official told the Telegraph.
Lending weight to the theory is the fact that all four men had paid up their parking tickets before boarding a train at Luton for King's Cross, and that they all bought return tickets to the capital.
Moreover, the paper said, the men were carrying their explosives inside rucksacks, as opposed to strapped to their bodies as is common practice among suicide bombers.
None were reported to have cried "Allah Akbar" (God is Greatest) before setting off their charge - something which most Middle Eastern suicide bombers do.
I don't either. Their clear intention was to kill many innocent civilians.
I do want to know who was the religious leader who set them up though...if that's what happened.
"Did the hijackers actually think they would survive after flying a plane into the twin towers and the Pentagon? I don't think so."
The point I think is that they didn't all know that was what was happening.
It's apparently worked several times before - though usually at least the leader of the team knows, like the ones who flew the planes into the WTC and Pentagon.
I think they left their ID so the British could see their own vulnerabilities.
Make that two asprin and a drink.
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Apparently mostly the ones in the cockpit knew. The rest thought they were on an ordinary type hijack. That according
to Osama himself, laughing at his useful idiots. There was a video to go with that comment.
Osama bin laden builds day care centers Patty Murray (D WA)
By the way, I guess it could have been the guy with the trigger who made the comment ( assuming there is something to the theory but it's a bit hard to imagine that it was being kept secret from the bomb carrier but the trigger guy just can't resist telling passengers that they are about to die.
My thought as well...although who knows how the minds of these people work and how easily they can be conned?
(In the meanime Sam- how bout those Red Sox?!)
Once the word is out, it ought to give future volunteers pause for thought about placing too much trust in the promises of their "master", hmmm?
We all must understand that our enemy's only hope in defeating us lies in instilling FEAR to cause our fifth columns within our countries to overcome our political will.
Osama knew that the suicide mission supplies a geometric augmentation in the fear factor of any attack.
It is precisely the suicide factor which causes abject fear, defeatism, and self-flagellation within the weak-minded. A remote detonation such as the Madrid bombings can be effective, but sends a message of weakness to the audience in this macabre play, the vaunted "Arab street" from which the jihadis derive their power. A remote detonation is seen by its targeted populace as a weapon several rungs down the scale as something to fear, and more importantly, is seen as cowardly by the Arab mindset.
The attempt to portray this as a suicide mission when it may not have been shows the frustration and ineptitude within the enemy camp, and puts the bright light at the end of the tunnel for our side.
They will lose, and they; know it, if these attacks are revealed to be remote detonations, IMHO.
Interesting to whom? I am not concerned with the whys and what fors when it comes to these pigs. I'm interested in defeating and destroying them.
I have to agree with you. Fewer suicide bombers of late could be a sign their side could be weakening. Still, one suicide bomber is 1 too many.
That is very creepy, and I wonder if the teen girl "Naima Aboulachouaq" is a muslim? Maybe he felt compelled to tell her.
I hope they are "looking" to see if they captured him on their cameras too.
She said: "I owe everything to my boyfriend. I was ready to board the first carriage but he said to go on the second."
I assume this was done, in case the plan had to be aborted...or their bomb didn't explode. I'm assuming even terrorists have a plan B or exit strategy.
Awwwwww...wait!
They didn't want to be SUICIDE bombers, just BOMBER bombers?
That's much better, isn't it?
I feel all safe and comfy now!
</sarcasm>
Now wait! You take that back!
Wookiees aren't terrorists! The Anti-Wookiee-Defamation-Squad will be after you!
Interesting to whom?
To people who want to know exactly what's going on.
I am not concerned with the whys and what fors when it comes to these pigs. I'm interested in defeating and destroying them.
This kind of information is critical when it comes to being able to "defeat and destroy them", but I won't waste any more time explaining to you how that works.
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