suicide bombers

[steviedb]

hi all,

i know this is macabre but i have heard that suicide bombers bodies stay intact when they do their deed and only their insides turn to jelly.is this so?

[jake-the-peg]

No

The force of such a blast would rapidly seperate various parts of your body from each other and if the bomb as metal fragments placed in it....Well I've just had breakfast

[chazza]

No, they are of the same physical makeup of everyone else who dies in the bombs. I saw a pic recently of someone picking up the head of a suicide bomber that had been blown off

[ronniemonda9]

Isnt' there somit about the force near the centre of the blast itself being lower? Not enough space/time to burn yet etc?

[mibn2cweus]

It only they had been informed that the 72 waiting for them are in the same condition they might have had second thoughts. Splans why Bin Ladin is in no big rush to get his just deserts.

[Jackson74]

an indication of a suicide bomber is decapitation

[ronniemonda9]

makes sense. large core mass, fairly weakly secured.

[Gnisy]

when you blow up, you blow up. Can't expect someone to still stand there in one piece when the TNT strapped to their backs kill everyone within shouting distance.

smithereens, man, smithereens.

[Peter Pedant]

yup decapitation

The severed head in Tavistock Sq., was the first and early indication that the wrecked bus had been wrecked by a bomb.

When lots of people blow themselves up - or are in a house which blows up (in Northern ireland this happened quite alot), you count the prostates and uteruses amongst all the mush, arms and legs, and that gives an idea of how many were there.

macabre, as you say.

[Toureman]

To add to the last answer by Peter

When I was on patrol in Northern Ireland when I was in the RM we were out with a member of the RUC he pointed out a man on the other side of the road and told me he was the son of the seventh dick, he then explained what he meant.

This man's Father was blown up in an IRA bomb factory when someone made a mistake and the bomb went off When all the bodies were scrapped off the floor, ceiling and remaining walls they found seven dicks but only enough other body parts to make up six bodies.