[Catspaw]

Military sources said the Palestinian boys probably belonged to a youth group that encouraged its members to undertake "dare missions" as a test for acceptance into one of the terrorist organizations or even sacrifice their lives for the Palestinian cause.

Sounds more like an initiation rite into the Crips or Bloods.

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"Sounds more like an initiation rite into the Crips or Bloods."

It is. I - and others, I'm sure - have been comparing Muslim terrorist rings to mafiosi and common street gangs for years...only in the past two years has the idea started to take hold at all.