Get tough on suicide bombings by Salim Mansur

A recent story in The Times of London reveals how utterly despicable are the folks who plan and execute suicide bombings.

Two 17-year-old peasant boys from the wilds of northwest Pakistan failed in their mission to kill the pro-West governor of Jalalabad, an Afghan border town. Farman Ullah, the suicide bomber, and his accomplice, Abdul Quboshi, instead were captured.

Times writer Robert Baer got to interview both captives. The peasant boys told their captors they believed virgins would be waiting for them at the site of the explosion and escort them to Paradise.

These captives -- their illiterate minds twisted by handlers recruiting them -- were programmed human bombs.

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