A new undetectable generation of suicide bombers
By Olivier Guitta
From The Croissant comes:
The suicide attacks perpetrated by Mohamed and Omar Maha on April 14, close to the US Consulate and the US Cultural Center, both in Casablanca, remain a mystery. The profile of the 2 suicide bombers: Mohamed Maha, 32 and his brother Omar, 20 are a new kind of suicide bombers. Nothing predestined them to become so;their profiles are totally different from all the other suicide bombers.
Their family is still in a state of shock:their sister did not notice anything suspicious about her brothers,their father said he was very proud of his 2 sons, and that they had a very good reputation in their neighborhood. He adds that his 2 sons must have been drugged in order to do what they did.
Regarding their social background, they did not live in utter misery, they did not come from shantytowns or from poor Casablanca neighborhood.They were making a good living. They were neither Salafists nor Takfirists nor Sufis; they never showed any signs of extreme religiosity. The neighbors even described them as very “open”. They were not collectors of extremist CDs or VCDs and they never participated in Jihadist Internet forums.
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