Another Suicide bomber

I read this earlier this week and it got me thinking.

A suicide bomber has rammed a car packed with explosives into a schoolbus near an air force base in northwest Pakistan, killing himself and wounding about nine people, including several children, the military said.

“A terrorist targeted a schoolchildren’s bus. The driver and the guard who were sitting in the front have been seriously injured,” said military spokesman Major-General Waheed Arshad.

“Because of the timely reaction of the driver, the children were saved. Only about six or seven children were injured,” he added.

“It was outside the Kamra air base. It was specially targeting the schoolchildren’s bus.”

I’m told that suicide is forbidden in the Koran. That is countered by many terrorist groups, who claim that in cases where there is no other choice to maintain one’s existence, it becomes ok.

But this guy…

• in a Muslim country…
• not under any sort of invasion…
• deliberately targeted a bus load of civilians…
• school children…
• Muslim school children…

is justified how exactly?

Who gains from this? How does this achieve any good, by any stretch of the imagination?

It’s been noted by several blogs that there have been over 1000 terrorist attacks since 9/11. That’s a lot.

Now I bet many of those guys thought it was good to get out there and attack American solders in Iraq. I think those guys where wrong, but it is possible to understand how they got to that stage - some one (CNN? ) told them they were under attack from a foreign country and religion and that they had to fight back.

But you have to wonder how sick someone is to die just to kill a few friendly children who were hurting nobody.