[yonif]

Well, the suicide vest could have been very small. It was a vest not to take many lives necessarily, but big enough to take his life if it was necessary to committ suicide.

[JustPiper]

He cowered, he crawled, he looked like a motherless child!

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Well, the suicide vest could have been very small. It was a vest not to take many lives necessarily, but big enough to take his life if it was necessary to committ suicide

It is also possible that he really did want to use it, but it may have been of French manufacture and simply didn't work.