Al Qaeda Using People with Disabilities as Suicide Bombers

In 2007 news reports first surfaced that al Qaeda was using people with disabilities as suicide bombers.

In the process, their families must be paid blood money.

As well, the would-be suicide bombers must face an awful dilemma: if they return to their home village, then they will face rejection by their families or worse, execution by al Qaeda.

Reports first surfaced in October 2007 about suicide bombers with disabilty.

There have been at least 110 suicide attacks in Afghanistan this year, more than in any other country except Iraq.

Most of the Afghan bombings are linked to the Taliban, but the identity of the recruits is often a mystery.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his security officials claim the attackers are foreigners, often from Pakistan. But a recent United Nations report says that bombers who were caught before they could carry out their attacks were overwhelmingly Afghan.

Whatever their nationality, many of the bombers have one major thing in common. A senior Afghan doctor who examines their remains finds that most of them were disabled or sick. — http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15276485

In developed nations, people with disabilities are treated better. In Afghanistan, al Qaeda uses them as suicide bombers.

Meanwhile, opium sales from Afghanistan are destabilizing the region. Reference: http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=25523&Cr=afghan&Cr1=drugs

Then in February 2008, a report about disabled female suicide bombers in Iraq appears.

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/02/al_qaeda_in_iraq_use.php

Then another disabled suicide bomber only succeeds in blowing himself up in April 2009.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j42u52m_tp_x1rUrY3eU0I7qztSg

Also in August 2009, commentary is made about suicide bombers:

https://filipspagnoli.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/the-most-absurd-human-rights-violations-6-mentally-disabled-female-suicide-bomber/

While it is nice to know people with disability are treated better on the war front since 2007, it chills me to the bone that their families willingly take the blood money. Perhaps they have no alternative except death.

In 2011, we hear from a failed suicide bomber on the matter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYSyoY4cRw4‎

Overall, from their viewpoint, this appears to be a win-win situation for al Qaeda and for the families of disabled people victimized by the terrorists in this way.

However, to Western eyes, this is wrong on so many levels, that the life of a disabled person is worthless to terrorists. It clearly demonstrates that their ideology is tainted by a sense of entitlement and an air of superiority and other elements similar to narcissism, except that they go beyond being manipulative to being criminal.

Note: the al Qaeda in Afghanistan are the Taleban.

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Originally posted: March 12, 2008 at 5:51 PM

Why I Hate to Be Financially Successful

This rationalization about being deliberately a person who works part-time is a raison d'être, which consists of the right to exist as a person who works at a job that is beneath him.

For a Japanese person, being a security guard does not have the prestige of being a policeman or a soldier. Though, becoming a pharmacist or a doctor has higher prestige than police and soldier.

IMHO wealth represents power, and as Lord Compton wrote, "absolute power corrupts absolutely". To me, this implies that wealth may lead to unwholesome acts, both in acquiring wealth and spending money.

I'll leave it up to the gentle reader to imagine what kind of unwholesome acts profits a person financially, and will not amplify the kind of acts purchased which may be considered unwholesome.

My reasoning for being coy is not done out of privacy, being the closet exhibitionist that I am in my blogging; rather, it is done to respect the intellect of my readers.

For it is not my place to redefine the English language by giving a graphic example of the kinds of unwholesome acts which leads to accumulation of wealth, nor is it my place to describe in detail what kind of unwholesome acts may be bought with money.

Having said this, I confirm the reason why I hate to be financially successful as being related to a certain unwholesome act which money buys.

By not being able financial to commit that act, I thus retain the bright and pure life I now live - a life of poverty, unashamed of stigma due to a lifelong disability caused by neglect and trauma.

I do not write of this to elicit sympathy from anyone, for my writing has been first a form of catharsis and a crude form of self-therapy, due to the escape which intellectualization provides for me.

Now having show the rawness of my inner self, I hope to withstand the fear of exposing private self to the world, which only the length of time this blog entry remains for complete strangers to read shall suffice as proof that that fear has been conquered.

If the reader finds these words to less than terse in explaining my wish not to be successful financianlly, then I have expressed myself without clarity.

Otherwise, I offer this blog entry as a sincere expression of my reason for being poor by conscious choice. It is up to the reader to decide how sincere these words are, after all.

YMMV ;)