Tahar Ben jelloun on the kamikaze "death instinct"

The Franco-Morrocan Tahar Ben Jelloun ponders the verdict delivered last week by a Spanish court in the trial of the Madrid bombings on March 11, 2004. "Those preparing to execute deadly suicide missions are beyond everything that was said in court. They may not even recognise the condemned. They aren't their brothers in arms. They are criminals, since they were caught. They have lost the precious death instinct and reverted to being 'normal' people. This is proven by the fact that not one of them committed suicide when in prison, and some even shed tears, baffled by what is happening to them. The death instinct cannot tolerate defeat, doubt, or failure. It should be reserved for superior men, not any old thug. You have to deserve it and follow through this infernal logic that burns up everything it touches."

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