[John H K]

It's very hard to push a detonator button when your brains have been ventilated.

So people should start blazing away at everyone whose clothing seems a little bit too bulky?

Or do suicide bombers announce "I am a suicide bomber, I will set off my bomb in 30 seconds?" Help me out here.

[weegee]

So people should start blazing away at everyone whose clothing seems a little bit too bulky?

Well here's someone who is a whole lot too bulky:

And given his history of lying, I don't know that we could take him at his word that he was not attached to a bomb...

[jiggyboy]

The "announcement", from what I have read in various Israeli accounts, are subtle: looking way too nervous for the circumstances, bulky or inappropriate winter jackets (which would automatically make most of the gang members here suspects of course), tossing the equivalent of $5 for a dollar bus toll and not interested in getting any change, etc.