Are Suicide Bombers Unstoppable?

[LordJagged]

yes LordJagged you are completely correct...the response must be unrelenting and the shoot-to-kill policy must continue...Israel has had to put up with this for years...she's the only democracy in the Middle East...those people who protest against her soccer team in Landsdowne road should cop on...this is about civilisation and its preservation and unless we're strong and tough and not wishy-washy liberal then our great grand children are still going to be dealing with this...

It is people like you who will stay on the line and keep feeding the belt.

I hope you have many healthy children, who will in time take their part in our fight for Europa and our allies.

[rupert brooke]

:twisted: yeah, LordJagged I know man...Sure the nut jobs who did the Spanish atrocity cited the Crusades as their main justification for the attack...
True, the present Middle East situation is peripheral in the historical sense and in their motivational regard. It is however central in respect to how sensationalist journos and the all too often one dimensional public wants to see things. I mean, how many people out there have any idead about the Crusades?
When they do their pub-talk it's convenient for them to think in the prestent and to rehash what some Robert Fisk prototype has injected into their ears. That's what I meant.
Yeah, I remember the France one ten years ago. Scale is important in these things though, especially with the way the media approaches it. I mean the old Stalin addage that one death's a tragedy and a million a stat doesn't curry with how the public remember what they hear from the news...
When the bombs failed last Thursday, one bystander said she was horrified at how disappointed some of the journos looked. Tragedy is manna for them. It means over-time, dosh, and the chance to make their name.
LordJagged, I think we're on the same wavelenght re this. The currency may be a voltage or two different though.

[sackville]

8) The main problem with suicide bombers is that for youths from a
disadvantaged backgroud it's a job for life and that's got to be enticing for them...more seriously, there was a scholar on the radio yesterday who contended that the word generally interpreted in the Koran as meaning virgins in fact means raisins!
That leaves those nutters with their just deserts - 20 dried up raisins as a reward for their terror rather than fresh, blossoming chicks.
:twisted: France is, in some ways, in more of a quandry than the UK. She's got nearly three times as many Muslims to contend with. The French may not have co-operated with the forces of liberation in Iraq, but they are likely to face the wrath of the jihadists for not allowing young Muslim females to wear their Burkas to school. The suicide bombers may well bide their time there though, waiting until they can damage pro-USA Sarkozy before striking. This could mean that they end up assisting Chirac. And it would all have come full circle. He was one of Saddam's earliest Western buddies and one in the most unjustifiable of senses for whereas Rumsfield may well have shared Beelzebub's dinner table he did so to try in however rounabout a manner to damage the devil of Iran.
Only 30% of French have any type of spiritual belief. Although we in Ireland have a withering faith in Catholicism, our spiritual tendencies are still strong - 98% stated in a recent poll that they believe in a higher life force here. That figure tallies with the UK stats. Therefore France is probably the most secular, this-world-is-all, civilised nation in the world. An attack on the London scale there could well have profound cultural repercussions.

France, unlike Britain, didn't (knowingly) give sanctuary to every Islamo-nut on the run from everywhere else over the last ten years.

The attacks on London now are at least as much a consequence on that little gem of a policy than any subsequent decisions by Government.

It’s the first point made about Britain on most the foreign T.V. stations covering the attacks I’ve seen, but tends to be played down on anything for U.K and/or Irish consumption. (apart from Peter Taylor’s work).