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Subject:
Suicide Bombers
Breaker
11/27/2006 9:24:28 PM
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From My New Book, Iraqi Terrorists.available 12/2006
No matter how much ersatz sympathy for the muslim psychopaths is engineered by incompetent and politicized US generals in league with US leftist politicians, they cannot cover up the real truth. Both the Sunnis and Shiites have created horribly bloody methods of mass murder which they, as fanatic muslims, revel in. It is hard to comprehend the mental sickness of a so-called religion that has given birth to the diabolically murderous concept of suicide bombing and the mass murder of thousands or millions of innocent people.
Suicide fatwas (religious edicts) were created by fundamentalist Sunni ?scholars? or mullahs to transform Shi?ia concepts of ?selfless sacrifice? into Sunni thinking about martyrdom and the punishing of one?s enemies by the mass murder of innocents. Suicide bombings then spread to other fundamentalist Sunni terrorist groups and then to more secular and nationalistic terrorist organizations such as the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.
The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades emerged in 2000 as an offshoot of Yassar Arafat?s Fatah faction of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO).This migration of suicide bombings from the religious to the secular set the stage for Saddam Hussein?s attempts to use this technique against allied invasion forces in OIF. It also explains why suicide bombings could be conducted by any combination of former Iraqi Ba?ath party loyalists (to a limited extent) and fundamentalist Shi?ia and Sunni terrorists now operating in Iraq. From the perspective of individual and unit-level doctrinal employment, radical Islamic elements advocated suicide bombers at both levels. Suicide bombers look forward to death because, as shuhada (singular shahid), or martyrs, they expect to be rewarded by Allah in paradise while they and their families gain social status within their societies. Economic benefits, such as monetary payments, may also come to family members as an additional bonus for the completion of a successful operation. For example, Saddam Hussein provided cash payments of $25,000 to the families of Palestinian insurgents killed in suicide attacks against Israeli targets during the Second Intifada.12 Suicide operations range in organizational sophisticationas well.
Operational advantages of suicide bombings over normal terrorist bombings include the following:
? The device is precisely delivered to the target. The suicide bomber functions as a ?precision weapon? taking the explosive device right to the target. This is a dimension of a standoff attack in the sense that the terrorist is ?invisible? (stealth-masked) until the device is detonated, which helps overcome the Western advantage of standoff targeting based on physical distance.
? Harder targets can be attacked. Targets which cannot normally be attacked can now be reached. Heavily fortified compounds with proper standoff distances will not be damaged by normal terrorist bombings whereas suicide bombers can crash through the front gate of a fortified compound and reach the desired target. Such gate crashing has taken place repeatedly in vehicular suicide bombings.
? The device has no window of vulnerability. The explosive device cannot be found and moved or rendered safe prior to detonation.
? No planned egress is required. The explosive charge simply has to be delivered to the target. Escape routes and avoidance of capture afterward are not a consideration.
? No one is left alive to interrogate. Because suicide bombers are not typically captured, operational security (OPSEC) of the terrorist group is better maintained.The Tamil Tigers use poison capsules as a fail-safe method in this regard. Some of the Palestinian groups use a redundant, cell phone-activated detonator that can be set off by calling the cell phone number in case the bomber attempts to back out of his or her mission.
? No burden of wounded comrades exists. Injured comrades create a logistical strain on a group.
? The ?horror factor? increases the psychological impact. Suicide bombers are blown to pieces with their heads (as in the case of wearing a bomb vest) typically being separated from their bodies. Individuals also eye one another with suspicion in areas where suicide bombings frequently take place. This can create higher levels of anxiety for U.S. troops when dealing with locals. Everyone in a crowd now has to be scanned for bulky clothing and unusual behavior.
? Blood-borne pathogens can be delivered. Suicide bombers infected with hepatitis and HIV can create a ?hazmat? incident by spreading disease to targeted personnel. Bone fragments and blood-covered bolts and nails may directly transmit pathogens from the bomber to nearby victims. While this is less commonly used and of questionable utility,some Palestinian terrorist groups have used infected bombers.
Another strategic consideration: suicide bombings create martyrs for the society from which the group recruits. As more suicide bombers kill themselves and gain prestige and heavenly rewards in the eyes of their society, the cycle of violence can escalate into a ?religious movement? among the faithful. Already, Palestinian society is taking on characteristics of a death cult with young children preferring to grow up to be suicide bombers rather than engineers and doctors. Recruitment of new suicide bombers is no longer difficult as the movement grows.
Radical Islamic networks, which include al Qaeda, are engaging in a global insurgency against the West. Martyrdom is one of the common bonds that hold this insurgency together, and it is increasing in strength as more terrorist groups engage in suicide bombings. The Roman Empire faced a similar strategic dilemma with Christian martyrs. Now a medieval murder cult, so favored by international left, is threatening to destroy the last truly free nation in the world by the use of mass murdering ?martyrs.? The radical Islamic link to martyrdom, now more than 20 years long, must be broken before it becomes too fully entrenched. Failure to do so has the potential to destroy the United States.
Suicide bombings during OIF started with a series of low-key, preconflict indicators. A couple of successful bombings took place in Kurdistan and were followed by calls from the Ba?athist regime of Saddam Hussein to use martyrdom operations to thwart U.S. intentions.
These indicators gained steam as Islamist leaders made Saddam?s call their own to stimulate their vision of an anti-United States and anti-Western global jihad while fueling their own global insurgency. During major combat operations, a relatively small number of tactically insignificant suicide attacks were directed against U.S. military forces. These attacks did not forestall the collapse of Saddam?s regime or affect the outcome of combat operations.
These attacks?like any attack employing suicide operations by irregular forces cloaked in civilian attire?were clear violations of international law, specifically Article 37 of Protocol 1 to the Geneva Conventions of 1977.33 As such they constitute perfidy or ?acts inviting the confidence of an adversary to lead him to believe that he is entitled to, or is accorded, protection under the rules of international law.? While the United States did not ratify the 1977 additional protocols, customary prohibitions of such conduct still apply. In addition, the targeting of civilians is clearly terrorism and constitutes a war crime. International humanitarian law absolutely prohibits intentional targeting of civilians (including police). None of the leftist lawfare friends of muslim terrorism in America, who have done so much to insure the survival of international muslim terrorism, has ever even mentioned indicting the mullahs and muslim tyrants who are violating the Geneva Convention by promoting the hideous war crime of suicide bombing.
While traditional Islamic law explicitly advocates suicide and the targeting of innocent civilians, the so-called jihadi movement, exemplified by Osama bin Laden?s al Qaeda and International Islamic Front, Palestinian insurgents and ?secular? groups such as Fatah and the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, sidesteps all moral prohibitions. These groups do so by referring to suicide bombers as martyrs and interpreting their actions as a religious duty. The tactic of ?extreme revenge? has been transported to Iraq and?perhaps in the future?elsewhere.
Perhaps most important, the experience of suicide bombings and their role in nurturing and sustaining a serious insurgency provides key strategic lessons. Iraq, perhaps like much of the Arab world with little historical tolerance for occupation (especially by non-Muslims) in combination with the contemporary appeal of radical jihad, finds itself in an incendiary political mixture that provides Iraqi insurgents motivation, legitimacy and a global support network. Adding to this the infusion of foreign so-called jihadi fighters and the influence of transnational organized crime makes paramount the need for intelligence and law enforcement components in the military counterinsurgency. The jihadi-criminal-terrorist mix challenges civil governance and the rules of morality and humanity. Military forces cannot reconstruct civil society alone.
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