Thu, May 30, 2002 at 4:15:23 pm
Here’s another awful story about a 25-year old Palestinian woman trained to be a suicide bomber, who backed out at the last minute.
"They wanted me to have my hair loose, wear sun glasses and makeup and tight clothes. I said no because it's against my religion," the Maariv newspaper quoted her on Thursday as telling reporters.
A day before the planned attack, Hamamreh began pondering the "righteousness" of the task and whether she would be accepted as a martyr in paradise because she volunteered mostly for personal reasons, including feelings of social isolation after being rejected by a man she had hoped to marry.
"I started thinking that I would be killing babies, women and sick people and imagined what it would be like if my family were sitting in a restaurant and someone bombed them," she said.
In the non-Bizarro universe, this is known as a “guilty conscience.” And it could be a sign that the pool of psychotically dedicated suicidal/homicidal freaks that conventional wisdom says is “bottomless” may in fact be starting to dry up. (Via Damian Penny.)