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Thread #82753   Message #1520770
Posted By: greg stephens
12-Jul-05 - 04:32 PM
Thread Name: Explosions in London
Subject: RE: Explosions in London
Suicide bombing is rather unusual, in that you can select your target remarkably accurately. I can understand the motivation of the kamikaze pilot very easily: you are going for the enemy you have selected as heroically as you can. Likewise anyone in Palestine going for the Israeli army checkpoint, or whatever.
We are asked to believe by many posters here that the bombers are acting out of hostility to Blair and the British army going into Iraq. You would think, if this was actually the case, that the bombers would have a go at political or military targets, of which there are are huge selection of readily attackable people, or installations, in England. But these bombs have been directed at extremely ordinary people in tubes and a bus on the way to work. This doesnt seem to me to be someone specifically protesting about the British ploical/military establishment. This sounds< I'm afraid, like some stupid gullible kids seduced into ultimate stupidity by some convincing older man offering adolescents a specious paradise in return for their "heroic deeds". I have worked with a lot of young Muslim kids over the last few years, and I know the kind of rubbish that is told to some of them. All we can hope is that a bit more education will eventually make the young a little more sceptical about what they are told by their elders and betters.