Al-Qa'ida 'Running Out Of Suicide Bombers In Iraq' -- The Independent
Foreign would-be militants are heading to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Iraq's Foreign Minister tells Patrick Cockburn.
Al-Qa'ida is struggling to launch frequent suicide attacks in Iraq for the first time because of a shortage of foreign volunteers travelling to the country to carry them out.
Interrogation of prisoners and intercepted messages revealed that local al-Qa'ida commanders are complaining about the lack of foreigners to carry out suicide missions as they had done to devastating effect in the past, Iraq's Foreign Minister, Hoshyar Zebari, said in an interview with The Independent.
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My Comment: There will always be delusional and/or sympathetic individuals who believe that suicide is the way to go. It is good news that they are running out of these individuals, but I suspect that this is only a temporary problem.
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