There is no defence against these children of death : Robert Baer

From The Times : October 8, 2007
Face to face with the first of the remote-controlled human bombs

We are deep inside intelligence headquarters in Kabul. On the faded sofa opposite is an extraordinary new weapon – a 17-year-old Pakistani peasant boy called Farman Ullah. He is the world’s first remotely detonated human bomb. Farman is from the wilds of northern Pakistan and his mission was to blow up and kill the pro-Western Governor of Jalabad, an important Afghan city close to the Pakistan frontier. “Even before you blow yourself up, virgins come to the site of the explosion and wait to take you to Paradise,” he says, parroting the propaganda he learnt from his Taleban indoctrinators. The attack failed and Farman and another 17-year-old accomplice, Abdul Quboshi, were captured. But Farman’s fanatic certainty about his scheduled appointment with the virgins of Paradise was not enough for his Taleban trainers. Attached to Farman’s suicide bomb vest was a radio transmitter. If Farman’s nerve failed or something went wrong, Abdul Quboshi’s job was to press the detonator. As Farman told me: “The Taleban said God himself would ignite the vest. I did not have to do anything.”
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Robert Baer’s Cult of the Suicide Bomber is broadcast tonight on Channel 4 at 8pm - 08-Oct-2007