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Jump To Comment: 1 2Interested to see that I'm not the only person thinking along those lines.
"The evidence is compelling: The terrorists bought return rail tickets, and pay and display car park tickets, before boarding _ a train at Luton for London. None of the men was heard to cry "Allah Akhbar!" - "God is great" - usually screamed by suicide bombers as they detonate their bomb.
Their devices were in large rucksacks which could be easily dumped instead of being strapped to their bodies. They carried wallets containing their driving licences, bank cards and other personal items. Suicide bombers normally strip themselves of identifying material."
The evidence is far from compelling. In fact it's non-existant. If you were carrying out a suicide bombing, you wouldn't really care about losing money over pay and display and return tickets, you'd be much more concerned with not doing anything to attract attention, like maybe from a parking attendant? Return tickets are also exactly the type of things that you would buy if you were really worried in case anybody might realise that you were on a resoundingly one-way trip
Suicide bombers often strap the explosives to their bodies _because they live in places where all bags are routinely searched_.
It is very difficult to disentangle the sounds of somebody screaming allah akhbar from the sounds of a bomb going off and the ensuing screams (the people best placed to do so are now dead of course) - the brain tends to collapse percepts in such times of sensory overload.
Suicide bombers in the occupied territories often strip themselves of identifying information as the IDF has a policy of exacting revenge against their families and demolishing their homes, the UK government does not.
In short, nothing to see here. There is precisely zero real evidence so far about exactly what happened beyond the fairly strong evidence that these 4 men carried bombs onto public transport which subsequently exploded killing a good number of innocent civilians. Unless and until there is some real evidence to the contrary, Occam opts for the suicide hypothesis. Of course there is every chance that the investigation might turn up information which changes this probability estimate, but in the meantime speculating about such things on such flimsy grounds is the domain of the tin-foil hatters and conspiranoids. Let's leave that to the tabloids and keep indymedia for stuff that isn't wild fact-free speculation.