Suicide Bombers, amphetamines and other drug use and addiction
Tantalizing Clues to Alcoholism in Suicide Bombers
There's probably addiction somewhere -- but it could be either the bombers -- or the mentors
"I became stronger. I climbed on top of the roof of the car. They gave me a weapon and put some marks on my face. I was no longer human. I could do anything."
--A child-soldier given amphetamines and tranquilizers that enabled him and certain other children to go on murderous binges for days during the Sierra Leone, Africa civil war.
Radical Islam "is not about religion but about domination and control."
--Salman Rushdie, interviewed by Shikha Dalmia in "Reason" magazine, August 2005
The recent string of London bombings brings terrorism close to home in areas we normally consider safe. Yet, ...
