Soldiers Rescue Man Blackmailed into Suicide-Bombing Mission

[gilliam]

This sort of thing has been going on for some time now. Terrorist recruiting is down:

WASHINGTON, May 1, 2005 – Task Force Baghdad soldiers this morning rescued a man apparently blackmailed into a suicide-bombing mission by terrorist master Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

The man exploded his red Kia sedan roughly 15 feet from a barrier to a coalition base in east Baghdad, Iraq. The car bomb failed to detonate properly and the vehicle caught on fire. Soldiers manning the gate reacted quickly and saved the driver, coalition officials said in a release.

An initial investigation revealed that terrorists had kidnapped the driver’s family and that he was forced to carry out this suicide-bombing mission to protect his wife and children, coalition officials said.

No soldiers were injured in the attack. The driver is being treated at a military hospital and is cooperating with authorities. “This is another case where Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has to extort men to carry out his indiscriminate slaughtering,” said Army Col. Joe DiSalvo, commander of 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division. “He can’t recruit volunteers. (So) he is resorting to forcing Iraqi civilians to carry out these mission by threatening harm to kidnapped family members.”

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[dumspirospero]

Yep…with recruiting down…they will resort to anything to accomplish their task…but what I find funny, is that the senior leadership is not willing to step in and sacrafice themselves to accomplish the mission…as far as suicide bombers are concerned, do they ever, ever ask the people sending them out to die: “if it is so honorable, and glorious to die doing these things, then why aren’t you coming with me or doing it yourselves?”

Do these people have any intelligence or ability to reason at all??? ONe would think not.

gilliam:

This sort of thing has been going on for some time now. Terrorist recruiting is down:

WASHINGTON, May 1, 2005 – Task Force Baghdad soldiers this morning rescued a man apparently blackmailed into a suicide-bombing mission by terrorist master Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

The man exploded his red Kia sedan roughly 15 feet from a barrier to a coalition base in east Baghdad, Iraq. The car bomb failed to detonate properly and the vehicle caught on fire. Soldiers manning the gate reacted quickly and saved the driver, coalition officials said in a release.

An initial investigation revealed that terrorists had kidnapped the driver’s family and that he was forced to carry out this suicide-bombing mission to protect his wife and children, coalition officials said.

No soldiers were injured in the attack. The driver is being treated at a military hospital and is cooperating with authorities. “This is another case where Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has to extort men to carry out his indiscriminate slaughtering,” said Army Col. Joe DiSalvo, commander of 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division. “He can’t recruit volunteers. (So) he is resorting to forcing Iraqi civilians to carry out these mission by threatening harm to kidnapped family members.”

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