Well it actually makes no difference whatever, because those who urge others on to paradise in this
fashion seem extraordinarily reluctanct to volunteer themselves.
The best explanation I have seen of suicide bombing is the economic one, where a martyr in the
family is a tradeable asset, and where there is an enforceable contract between "volunteer" and
purchaser fulfilled by the suicide video.
http://www.hero.ac.uk/uk/business/archives/2003/the_economics_of_martyrdo4516.cfm
"Where life had no value, death, sometimes, had its price"
Leone. S, Per qualche dollaro in pił, 1965
Larry
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> Subject: Media's Report on 'Mentally Disabled" Iraqi Suicide
> Bombers Now Questioned
>
> The press and cable TV news carried the stark report all day
> Friday: A pair of bloody suicide bombings carried out in Iraq
> by "mentally disabled" women who were tricked into wearing
> bomb vests detonated from nearby by "al-Qaeda in Iraq" operatives.
>
> Of course, this is all too possible -- but most of the media
> presented it as fact, rather than wild speculation. The
> Washington Post headline, for example, carried no qualifier:
> 'Mentally Disabled Women Used in Bombings."
>
> It turns out on the following day, that the evidence for the
> mentally disabled part was that one of the alleged bombers'
> head recovered after the blast was deformed, suggesting
> Down's syndrome. Now the AP and The New York Times point out
> that the severed head may have merely been deformed by the blast.
>
> Also, McClatchy's crack Baghdad bureau now reports that Iraqi
> officials "have made similar claims in the past" about
> mentally crippled bombers -- and a police official told them
> "that authorities were still investigating whether the
> explosion at the second market might have come from a bomb
> hidden in a cage or a box of eggs."
>
> http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/
> article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003705961
>
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