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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: bentway who wrote (163477)6/3/2005 11:41:34 AM
From: Win Smith  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
This is another ridiculous discussion I should know better than to add too, but I googled this and traced back the duct tape thing to this article: query.nytimes.com

Originally posted here by an unsuspecting source: Message 21338301

The original source was fairly straightforward about what was going on:

The officer said that in two of the recent Baghdad bombings, investigators had found indications that the men driving the cars had been bound with duct tape before the attacks. He said the foot of one of the attackers, in a marketplace bombing last week that killed 22 people in south Baghdad, had been found taped to his vehicle's accelerator. In another case, the officer said, the attacker's hands were taped to the vehicle's wheel.

The implication was that those planning the attacks wanted to be sure that the vehicles would continue to their targets even if the drivers were killed by American or Iraqi gunfire as they approached.

Perhaps ironically, the whole story apparently started at ground zero of the dreaded MSM conspiracy. But now it's off in the land of warblogospheric logic, so people who dig that stuff will spin it out to suit the needs of the day. For what it's worth, I don't think the steering wheel thing makes that much sense, because a car will tend to just go straight if you let go of the wheel. The accelerator is a little different, but there would be better ways to do that one too. Cruise control? What a concept.
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