Does this mean that Al-Qaida is becoming desperate and running out of “martyrs?”?
It has been claimed before (2005). Don’t count on Al-Qaida being desperate. Or totally believe that the bombers were forced or duped into it. Iraqi Interior Ministry officials claim they have evidence showing that many of the bombers are drafted involuntarily. They say their investigations of car bombings have discovered that some of the vehicles were rigged to be detonated by remote control, indicating that the drivers may not have been aware that they were about to be blown up. “In a majority of cases, you find hands chained to the steering column, so these were not volunteers,” says al-Juboori, the Interior Ministry spokesman. But U.S. investigators who have looked into scores of cases believe coercion is rare.
