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Suicide Squads Set to Target U.S. Bases
Thursday, November 8, 2001
(Time)
By Rory Carroll / The Guardian

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Source
Taliban leaders have sanctioned suicide squads to seek and destroy United States and Northern Alliance targets in a significant escalation of their resistance to ground assaults.

Teams of militants have allegedly been granted permission to strap explosives to their bodies and vehicles to launch potentially devastating attacks against enemy forces, despite unease over Islam's disapproval of suicide, it was claimed on Wednesday.

A determination to inflict maximum casualties against US troops and their Northern Alliance proxies has apparently convinced the Taliban to approve a tactic that has bloodied Indian security forces in Kashmir.

Muslim militants waging an insurgency in the disputed Himalayan territory have bombed Indian military bases, checkpoints and patrols in a series of spectacular raids that claimed dozens of lives. Fighters willing to make the ultimate sacrifice are known as fidayeen.
(More: The Sydney Morning Herald News Source)
2001 © The Guardian.

Suicide squads? Must be something new...

Dan