"They are smart," [Harris] said. "They are creative, they are committed. They have no regard for life, neither ours nor their own. I believe this was not an act of desperation but an act of asymmetrical warfare waged against us."Asymetrical warfare? Give me a break. I think Harris has been reading a little too much propaganda. Everything these guys do isn't meant to have some sort of hidden meaning. The more likely explanation for the three simultaneous suicides is that they did it to guarantee a greater likelihood of success.
The US military has actually done a pretty good job at thwarting suicides at the facility lately and by the three making their attempts at the same time, if one would have happened to get caught, it would have diverted attention away from the others. As it happened, all three were successful in their endeavor. There is probably little more to the story as far as the detainees go.
I'm sure some propagandists in the Arab world will try to use this for their advantage, but I seriously doubt this entered into the detainees minds. They were just trying to kill themselves and took a route that offered a higher success rate.
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