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Western Suicide Bombers Losing Jobs To Cheap Foreign Labor
by N. O. Auhprescion Saturday, Nov. 22, 2003 at 5:06 AM

British suicide bombers are losing their jobs to cheap overseas labor, The Economist reports:

"In comparison to earlier jihads, the British deployment to Iraq has been a bit of a let-down. Bosnia's war attracted British Muslims in their hundreds. The 2001 Afghan campaign helped fill some of the Guant�namo Bay cells with Taliban from Tipton, and a drop-out from the London School of Economics masterminded the killing in Pakistan of Daniel Pearl, an American journalist. Earlier this year, two British suicide bombers died in Israel. These days, though, long-faced Islamists are surprisingly subdued. "Even the collections and the preaching feel more restrained," moans an Afghan war veteran."

"The growing zeal of the British security forces and waning enthusiasm from British Muslims could be to blame. But jihadis say there is a more important factor: the supply of bombers exceeds demand, and British bombers are too expensive. "For the cost of equipping and transporting a British fighter into Iraq--about $2,000--we can shift 20 guerrillas into Iraq from neighbouring Arab states and Chechnya," says a retired jihadi field officer."

Will these former free-traitors turn protectionist? Should the coalition impose terror tariffs on Third World bombers so that their British counterparts don't find themselves unemployed and even more disaffected than before?

Please Protest the Arab Free Martyr Trade Zone and help give these western jihadists an opportunity to martyrdom at jihad. Fight the tyrranny of differences in regional labor market pricing.

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