They recounted how the Taliban had given them candy and persuaded them to don suicide bomber vests by promising that they wouldn't die and that their impoverished families would be provided for.
That data is then fed to an AI system that has been trained to spot distinctive scattering patterns from all kinds of objects, including firearms, suicide bomber vests and even knives.
There were men dressed up as Arab terrorists, complete with suicide bomber vests.
As part of a manhunt for the insurgents responsible, U.S.-led forces have killed two members of al-Qaeda in Iraq, detained 36 other people and discovered six weapons including suicide bombers' vests and rocket launchers, the U.S. military said.
Another bomber's vest prematurely detonated in the blast, taking the lives of four US servicemen and injuring 16 others.
The site itself told the story: the blast crater from the attack, on Wednesday, had been covered by two rows of green sandbags stacked 10 feet high, and ball bearings from the bomber's vest pockmarked the neighboring walls.
The man whose remoteness earned him the nickname al-Gharib (the Stranger) - a moniker he used to sign letters - was videoed that December cradling a gun, swathed in a suicide bomber's vest, and, for the first time, unmasked.
LONDON — Prime Minister David Cameron said Monday that a British aid worker killed in an American rescue raid in Afghanistan last week may have been killed by a grenade detonated by a United States special forces unit — not by a suicide bomber's vest from her Taliban captors, as the American command in Afghanistan suggested when it confirmed her death on Saturday.
And the large photographic transparency attached to a full-size bus stop by Oleg Kulik (at the Annex), depicting a fashion model in a suicide bomber's vest dozing in a Madonna's pose at the foot of a partly broken monumental statue, treats the subject of terrorism with a too clever cynicism.
