--- Frank Scott <frank at marin.cc.ca.us> wrote: would mercenaries get involved in suicidal work? what is the point of making money from conducting warfare - what mercenaries do - if getting killed is not only possible, but absoutely the outcome of an attack in which suicide bombing is the tactic...?
even if there were "others" involved in the crime, might they not have been dedicated to giving up their lives in the effort, rather than getting a paycheck?
fs ---
Hi Frank,
This does not appear to have been a suicide operation. There were a handful of women wearing suicide belts. According to hostages, a couple of them objected to using children, and the leader of the group detonated the belts by remote control, killing them (according to the sole surviving hostage-taker, they did not know what the mission was until they arrived at the school -- maybe he is telling the truth, or maybe he is trying to save his own skin). The main group appears to have attempted to have escaped into the crowd during the storm of the school. In any case, they were pros, as the quality of the wiring of the explosives shows.
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