A flawed survey of suicide bombing.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | Date: August 19, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: Carlin Romano

_"My Life Is a Weapon: A Modern History of Suicide Bombing," by Christoph Reuter; Princeton (200 pages, $24.95)

When mechanic Bill Simons watched the first plane veer into his unsuspecting fellow Americans, he thought "the pilot ... hadn't been able to pull her up in time."

But when the second followed, he knew it could be no accident. Nothing else, he thought to himself, could have "shaken the morale" of his peers more powerfully than such suicide attacks. Plenty of 9/11 onlookers experienced similar one/two reactions.

But Simons didn't ...

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