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Tuesday, July 19, 2005

London bombers duped...?

some very good questions posed by the chicago sun-times (as opposed to the tin-foil hat crowd)... a good reminder about how very quickly we are programmed to leap to conclusions...
Here is the evidence: They bought return railway tickets. Their bombs were not strapped to their bodies but carried in knapsacks as if to be left behind on the trains. None of them was heard to shout the customary ''Allah Akhbar'' before the bombs exploded. Unusually for suicide bombers, they left identification on their bodies. And surveillance videotapes show them laughing and joking casually -- rather than grimly determined or prayerful -- as they caught the Underground train.

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