Posted on 09/21/2006 2:54:08 PM PDT by Nachum
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraqi insurgents are no longer using just volunteers as suicide car bombers but are instead kidnapping drivers, rigging their vehicles with explosives and blowing them up, the Defense Ministry said Thursday.
In what appears to be a new tactic for the insurgency, the ministry said the kidnap victims do not know their cars have been loaded with explosives when they are released.
The ministry issued a statement saying that first "a motorist is kidnapped with his car. They then booby trap the car without the driver knowing. Then the kidnapped driver is released and threatened to take a certain road."
The kidnappers follow the car and when the unwitting victim "reaches a checkpoint, a public place, or an army or police patrol, the criminal terrorists following the driver detonate the car from a distance," the Defense Ministry statement said.
There was no immediate comment from the U.S. military. In the past, U.S. officials have said insurgents often tape or handcuff a suicide driver's hands to a car, or bind his foot to the gas pedal, to ensure that he does not back out at the last minute.
Although roadside bombs are the main weapon used by insurgents, suicide car bombers are designed to maximize casualties and sow fear among the population.
According to the Washington-based Brookings Institution, there have been 343 suicide car bombings causing multiple deaths in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003.
The reenlistment rate is negligible.
This should make them more popular with the citizens for sure.
That's just absolutely sick. Where's the humanity? Not to mention, isn't this Muslim on Muslim violence? I guess we can expect protests pretty soon now that this is out..... Seriously, do the liberals really want to share the world with the kind of people who would such a thing to a fellow humn being?
We are all waiting for the world wide Jihand from Muslims against radical Islam.
Michael Moore says they are "freedom fighters".
Doesn't the Geneva Convention prohibit this type of detainee treatment?
We may never know. But at least now we know what we can do with the detainees we release from Club Gitmo. What's good for the goose should be good for the gander, right?
Every time some bozo tells us how Muslims are so inherently MORAL and cannot do such eviiiiillll acts as the rest of the world they should be given articles like this..... and I well remember after 9/11 how many times we were told that Muslims could never be (willing) suicide bombers because Allah forbids suicide..... now we find again how easily they can turn other people into INVOLUNTARY suicide bombers, i.e., murder all around....
Sounds like they watched "Arlington Road"
1426 years(life span of Islam) of study on these matters has developed cowardice to an art....
Funny how that happens when you keep blowing them up.
I'm having a little trouble visualizing this. Call me a skeptic.
Anyone knowing the early history of the Islamic conquest would not call them "cowards". If the enemy was just cowards we would have ended this years ago.
'Makes ya sick' bump.
One thing's for sure. Next time I *think* I am having a bad day, I will remember this story and consider myself lucky.
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