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Terrorism: why use diggers?

Bellboy · 2008-07-23 13:30

I read in my morning paper of an Arab terrorist who took a JCB and drove into cars and buses in Jerusalem, with the intent of attacking jews, as most sources will emphasise. Why use a TLB or a Payloader for this. They are not fast, they are not inconspicuous, they're yellow for goodness sake. Thoughts? Note: Please leave politics out of this.

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  1. #1joispoi2008-07-23 14:18

    Why would anybody do this period? Don´t bother looking for logic where there was never any to begin with.

  2. #2euclid2008-07-23 14:55

    Well in early July the same thing happened with a cat loader (news called it a dozer) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041531/posts

  3. #3Bellboy2008-07-23 14:59

    Eh, for truue huh? Looked both up on Google, but couldn't get much in the way of images.

  4. #4euclid2008-07-23 15:07

    On the first attack the new showed a cop up on the side and he shot the driver a few times. I'm surprises this kind of stuff hasn't happened more and the Jews has some awesome CATdozers that are armored pretty nice they use in west bank to drop houses of suspected terror groups.

  5. #5digger242j2008-07-23 15:48

    You're wrong. It's called hiding in plain sight. Just like ordinary looking cars, that happen to be filled with explosives, until they go off and kill somebody, as instruments of death, they are inconspicuous. Making people afraid of things that are a part of their everyday surroundings is very effective for terrorists. Yeah. We have a thread about them here on HEF. It got political, it got heated, and it got closed. Anyone wanna take bets on how long this one will take to go the same way?

  6. #6euclid2008-07-24 07:49

    When you live in a peaceful state then logic about such boneheaded tricks like that is baffling to the rest of the world. It is a peace loving religion as we are told. Who knew huh:Banghead