The London Sunday Times reports that the British Intelligence Service, MI5, is afraid that terrorists are recruiting mentally disturbed people as suicide bombers. Here’s the lead graph:
Islamic terrorists may be targeting mentally disturbed or disabled people in Britain in a bid to form a new “brigade” of home-grown suicide bombers, security officials fear.
Which prompts a couple of thoughts. The first is that blowing yourself up, usually to kill innocents, is not exactly a sign of mental stability. In that sense, all of those targeted by the jihadis (that oft-banned word actually appears in the headline, by the way) are mentally disturbed or disabled.
But the more serious concern is the implication that MI5 didn’t already know that mentally disturbed people have long been recruited as suicide bombers. If you talk to Iraq war veterans, you will hear no end of such stories. If we had better reporters in the field, we’d have learned long since that American troops have refrained from shooting people who approached them, when it looked like they were seriously disabled.
The exploitation of such people by the terrorists is one of the most disgusting and cynical aspects of the war, and says a lot about the kind of evil we are combating. I hope that our own domestic security people are paying attention.
Did MI5 also mention Ahmadinejad and Bush in the redacted portion of the report? Can you ask your Jesus agent for any inside info?
The MSM has been loath to report the atrocities committed by the jihadists. Look how they largely ignored the horrors found in Baqubah by Michael Yon last summer.
The only reason I can think of for this is some perverse desire not to report any news that might in any way create support for this war and President Bush.