'Til Death Do Us Part
When US forces first saw a kamikaze suicide bomber in WWWII, they must have looked at each other in disbelief -- how could anyone do such an outrageous and unbelievable thing? Now, there's this:
Visualizing the recruiting, the training, the drive to the target, what was difficult to understand with a solo bomber becomes incomprehensible with a husband and wife team. An act of hate becoming an act of love? She helping him to his 73 virgins in paradise? Someone help me here.
I also can't imagine the scene in the ballroom. The husband can clearly see the wife is having trouble detonating. Can't the others around them? Why aren't they doing something to stop the bombers?
What is the husband thinking at that point? "Dumb woman? Can't get the simplest thing right?"
Why does he save her by pushing her out of the room before detonating himself? Did he decide she was too stupid to spend eternity with? Was his heart suddenly softened by her struggle with the detonation cord?
And how could he have pushed her out of the room and gone back to blow himself up? Certainly, people in the ballroom must have figured out what was going on by then. And that, sadly, constitutes yet another act of terror, because it is better to be blown up in blissful ignorance than with the knowledge that it's coming.
I admit it. I find this enemy terrifying.
Fortunately, I think they find this terrifying as well:
AMMAN, Jordan - Jordanian security forces on Sunday arrested an Iraqi woman, whose husband is suspected of blowing up one of three Amman hotels, after being tipped off by an al-Qaida claim that a husband-and-wife team participated in the attacks that killed 57 other people.A husband and wife team? It's freightening because marriage was designed by God so each member would balance out the weaknesses -- and extremes -- of the other. Yet the hatred that fuels our jihadist enemies is so intense it melts such natural protections in its heat.
The woman failed to blow herself up during a wedding reception at the Radisson SAS hotel on Wednesday night after apparently struggling with the cord on her explosives belt, Deputy Prime Minister Marwan Muasher said. Her husband saw her fumbling and "pushed her out of the ballroom," he said. "Once she was out, he blew himself up."
Officials said the woman would confess on state-run TV later Sunday.
Visualizing the recruiting, the training, the drive to the target, what was difficult to understand with a solo bomber becomes incomprehensible with a husband and wife team. An act of hate becoming an act of love? She helping him to his 73 virgins in paradise? Someone help me here.
I also can't imagine the scene in the ballroom. The husband can clearly see the wife is having trouble detonating. Can't the others around them? Why aren't they doing something to stop the bombers?
What is the husband thinking at that point? "Dumb woman? Can't get the simplest thing right?"
Why does he save her by pushing her out of the room before detonating himself? Did he decide she was too stupid to spend eternity with? Was his heart suddenly softened by her struggle with the detonation cord?
And how could he have pushed her out of the room and gone back to blow himself up? Certainly, people in the ballroom must have figured out what was going on by then. And that, sadly, constitutes yet another act of terror, because it is better to be blown up in blissful ignorance than with the knowledge that it's coming.
I admit it. I find this enemy terrifying.
Fortunately, I think they find this terrifying as well:
posted by Laer at 8:01 AM
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