on tv: new world war

[Hafsah]

Dispatches - Why Bomb London

Date: Monday 8th August
Time: 20:00 - 21:00
TV Channel: Channel 4

Continuing the New World War season. To what degree did we bring
the recent bombings - and possibility of further bombings in the
future - on ourselves? Why Bomb London examines the forces and
influences that may have combined to make the recent bomb attacks
on London more likely. The programme analyses whether a series of
foreign policy decisions and domestic errors, social and political,
made the transport bombings not so much a surprise as inevitable.
The programme investigates the divisions within the British Muslim
community that lead to many youngsters being drawn into a pattern
of extremism, and explains how, during the 1990s, the UK government
allowed known terrorists and extremists to settle in London, where
they used British freedom of expression to plan attacks abroad.

Inside the Mind of the 'Suicide Bomber'

Date: Monday 8th August
Time: 23:50 - 00:50
TV Channel: Channel 4

Continuing Channel 4's New World War season. With unprecedented
access to captured Palestinian suicide bombers, filmmaker Tom
Roberts gets to the heart of what makes someone kill and be
killed for their cause. Meeting bomb makers, failed suicide
bombers and their recruiters, his journey into the mindset of
these people reveals the reality behind the soundbite reporting
of suicide bombing and the impact "martyr operations" have on
the psyche of Palestinians.

[EducateMe]

I didn't see this particular documentary although I have followed much of the coverage with interest. Morally the United Kingdom was wrong to enter the war im Iraq and this wrong is compounded by a failure to speak out on the international stage about the abuse, torture and disrespect for human life and the Muslim faith displayed by the American military and governement. This is a point many can agree upon.

HOWEVER, this dosen't make the bombing more understandable, nothing can or ever will for me. I don't care if someones life has been a living hell of abuse, descrimination and alienation from the moment of birth onward, about the psychological profile, the state of world affairs, nothing what so ever is a REASON to blow dozens of people to pieces on buses and trains. I think anyone who seeks to appologies for these animals should be made to view the aftermath of a suicde bombing, to see the charred smouldering lumps of human flesh and the inocent children wrything in agony, the distraut mothers holding dead babies, all of it in full.

Then tell me the bombings where "understandable". If these men want revenge fine, fight like a man and fight other men, go to Iraq and find some americans and attack them, In my view you are still wrong and misguided but at least your a man and not a sniveling, pathetic coward. I hope they live for eternity experiencing the pain they caused, like all evil people. Appologising for them is as bad as supporting them!