KABUL, Afghanistan - A mother who tried to stop her son from carrying out a suicide bomb attack triggered an explosion in the family’s home in southern Afghanistan that killed the would-be bomber, his mother and three siblings, police said Monday.The would-be bomber had been studying at a madrassa, or religious school, in Pakistan, and when he returned to his home in Uruzgan province over the weekend announced that he planned to carry out a suicide attack, Interior Ministry spokesman Zemeri Bashary said.
Surviving family members told police that the suicide vest exploded during a struggle between the mother and her son, said Juma Gul Himat, Uruzgan’s police chief. The man’s brother and two sisters were also killed.
Family members said the would-be bomber gave his family $3,600 before telling them he intended to carry out the attack, Himat said.
I don’t even know how to respond to this! Obviously, the family was not supportive of the suicide mission in the way we see mother’s celebrating their sons killing themselves and others in Palestine. I guess the question for me is, where did he get that $3,600 to give to his family before he went on his mission? Since the family didn’t support it, then whoever gave him the $3,600 would be the link to whoever is using young impressionable boys to do these suicide missions.
