Kid you not. British police has finally agreed with me, KTemoc, that the bombers could have been duped. Please read extracts of the article from news.com:
BRITISH police are considering the possibility that the four key suspects in last week's London attacks may have been tricked into setting off their bombs, a newspaper has reported.
"We do not have hard evidence that the men were suicide bombers," a Scotland Yard spokesman told The Sunday Telegraph. "It is possible that they did not intend to die."
According to the paper, one police hypothesis is that the bombers were tricked by a "master" who told them they would have time to escape - when in fact the devices were set to go off immediately.
"The bombers' masters might have thought that they couldn't risk the four men being caught and spilling everything to British interrogators," an unnamed security official told the Telegraph.
Lending weight to the theory is the fact that all four men had paid up their parking tickets before boarding a train at Luton for King's Cross, and that they all bought return tickets to the capital. (KTemoc note: I wasn't even aware of this)
Moreover, the paper said, the men were carrying their explosives inside rucksacks, as opposed to strapped to their bodies as is common practice among suicide bombers.
None were reported to have cried "Allah Akbar" (God is Greatest) before setting off their charge - something which most Middle Eastern suicide bombers do.
It is possible they were duped into believing there would be a delay, but what we know is that they carried bombs onto Tubes and a bus and set them off, killing themselves and innocent people," one senior officer told the paper.
Related postings:
(1) London Bombing – The Plot Thickens
(2) London Bombing – More Details
(3) Bomb-Maker Caught? Bombers Duped?
(4) London Suicide Bombers or Murdered Bombers
(5) London Bombings – Speculations & Counter Speculations
This doesn't change from the fact that the bombers were willing to kill Londoners.
ReplyDeleteNo one said it did - please read any of my postings.
ReplyDeleteBut it does carry a message for wannabe-bombers not to be fools and suckered by rebel-rousing mullahs, because fools end up as unsuspecting martyrs - they won't get back to see their loved ones that evening, while the mullahs will still be preaching the same violence the next day.
It's a costly lesson for those 4 and 50 plus innocents, but hopefully such revelations will open the eyes of other wannabes.