[Do not dub me shapka broham]

I'm pretty sure most-if not all-of them knew they were going to die-and in the process, murder thousands of innocent human beings-when they came to the United States for their "martyr operation."

That's probably one of the reasons the Lebanese hijacker-Ziad Jarrah-was so reluctant to commit to the mission in the first place.

On the other hand, a lot of the so-called "suicide" missions in places like Iraq are engineered by people who have no intention of telling the drivers of their weaponized cars/vans that they're going to die.

A favorite tactic of the Palestinians is to use mentally retarded adults or children who have no conception of death as guinea pigs for their terrorist attacks inside of Israel.

[MHGinTN]

Palestinians prove Neandertals are not extinct. Those are some of the most primitive examples of the species on the planet. Sadly, too many Moslems are throwing their selves right into the primitive pie ... have you ever read about the way the Iranians slaughtered Ba'hais -and there cannot be a more peaceful religion- a mere hundred years or less ago? They haven't changed even a smidgeon! Throwbacks to subspecies ...

[Valin]

We'll never really know.
I recall reading a couple of years ago an article by Tom Friedman saying he thought only those who flew the planes knew the whole plan.

BTW if memory serves, before someone goes on jihad they have to get their mothers permission.