suicide bomber

A pair of suicide bombers struck in the Israeli town of Dimona yesterday -- the first strike of its kind in more than a year. Once it was all over, a bomb disposal robot removed one of the attacker's jacket, to make sure there were no more explosives on him. (His bomb failed to go off, and police shot and killed him.) Then the machine rolled over him, to double-check.

Police were accused yesterday of dishonestly manipulating a photograph showing Jean Charles de Menezes next to a suicide bomber. The remarkable composite picture - one half containing the face of the innocent Brazilian and the other that of terrorist Hussain Osman - was shown to a jury by the Met in an attempt to explain why they shot the wrong man dead.