The Spectator

No concessions

It is impossible to know what leads an individual to embrace the pointless killing of himself and others

issue 16 July 2005

The bombs in London last week killed people of all races and religions indiscriminately — as of course they were intended to. The terrorists who planted them were not interested in distinguishing between kinds of people: they simply wanted to kill as many of us as possible. The police now believe that the killers were suicide bombers who found fulfilment in blowing themselves up on the London Underground.

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