Posted on 06/19/2004 8:55:02 PM PDT by Mark Felton
THE HANDS OF THE TERRORIST WHO CARRIED OUT A CAR BOMB IN BAGHDAD YESTERDAY WERE TIED TO THE STEERING WHEEL. (AL-SHARQ AL-AWSAT, LONDON, 6/18/04)
[This is on the ticker at MEMRI website)
"More than a generation will be requisite [for an unprepared people], under the administration of reasonable laws favoring the progress of knowledge in the general mass of the people, and their habituation to an independent security of person and property, before they will be capable of estimating the value of freedom, and the necessity of a sacred adherence to the principles on which it rests for preservation." --Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette, 1815. ME 14:245
Not a willing participant I assume. Maybe he didn't believe the jargon of 72 virgins.
I think they ran out of females. They're now using substitutes.
Not a willing participant I assume. Maybe he didn't believe the jargon of 72 virgins.
Maybe he liked his women more experienced.
Foxnews is correct, they should be called homicide bombings
> Not a willing participant I assume.
What's the scenario? Sure, you can confine the
driver in the vehicle, but what motivates him to
drive to the target coords?
I wouldn't assume anything at this point, including
that the story is true/correct as reported.
Let's see what develops.
How did he shift / put the car into gear? Did he use his teeth?
So I guess we can also assume it was an automatic transmission.
Exactly. You can tie a terrorists hands to the wheel, but you can't make him drive. The story sounds like nonsense.
You still have to shift into drive. I don't beleive this story.
Perhaps you drive to the coordinates because your family is being held hostage, I'm sure those scumbags wouldn't hesitate for a moment to kill someones family.
We just have to understand these cowards will stop at nothing and their main prey is the weakest link they can find.
I am sure he did this himself or had someone else do it to prevent a last minute panic.
If they're getting down to unwilling volunteers, that would be good news.
Before 1965, chain-stealing was the second-most common crime in the South outside of suicide.
Then why tie the hands? You would not hesitate to drive if you thought it would save your family. You don't need to be tied. Which brings up the question as to why tying the hands to the wheel forces you drive to the designated target? It may keep you in the car, but it doesn't prevent you from going anywhere other than the target. It sure does prevent you from putting the car into gear so you can drive though. This story smells like a dead camel.
Yep, and all of thos chain stealing crimes were solved when the suicide was pulled from the water.
I think they have no problem finding volunteers. They are lined up around the corner and down the block.
By the way, try driving a car around the corner with both hands gripped on the wheel. Impossible.
If the bomb was on a timer he may as well go through with it.
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