This will come as a shock, but radical Islamist terrorists have few limits. According to testimony in the London trial of al-Qaeda jihadists, at least one of them wanted to take along his wife and baby on their suicide mission in order to get past security. That suggestion got nixed by his wife, who nevertheless seems to have had no problem in killing other children:
As police listened in on the men using a hidden bug, they heard Umar Islam and Abdulla Ahmed Ali discuss a train bombing in which one participant wanted to take his child.
Ali said: “That’s why he wanted to take his kid on the train with him – shake them up.”
Peter Wright QC, prosecuting, said Islam said his wife may join the plot if it was a “significant operation”.
Ali was overheard considering taking his child but said his wife “would not agree to it”.
The terrorists had drawn up quite a list of targets. They wanted to hit a gas pipeline between the UK and Belgium, nuclear power plants, the National Grid, companies that produce hydrogen peroxide, and Heathrow itself. The devastation they would have wrought would have killed tens of thousands and left portions of Britain uninhabitable. They studied the Chernobyl disaster to see how they could replicate it themselves.
“We love to die in the path of Allah,” the terrorists claimed in a recording meant to be found after their deaths. If they didn’t insist on taking others with them, we wouldn’t mind. The sad fact is that we care more for their babies than the terrorists themselves do.
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