http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/27/international/europe/27suicide.html?th&emc=th
ELAINE SCIOLINO
and DON VAN NATTA Jr.
"The suicide question has major implications not only for the investigation, but also for the assessment of the terrorist threat that London faces. If the attacks were a suicide mission, they would be the first suicide bombings on European soil, and signal a dangerous new threat. Suicide could indicate a higher level of commitment and point to the existence within Britain of extremists willing to die for a cause. If the men were not suicide bombers, some of the most basic assumptions of the investigation would change. On one level, the idea makes the plot less ominous. It is much easier to recruit 'mules' who will carry and deposit explosives than people who are prepared to die."
