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A wearable bomb can only kill (say) few dozen people, even in a crowded area, but the same bomb detonated on a 747 could kill 400.

It could also allow them to gain control of the aircraft (maybe, depending on whether they can persuade the people on board that they aren't planning to crash it into anything).

Suicide bombers generally aren't rational folks who multiply "number of infidels I can kill" versus "chance of being caught" though. And we should be thankful that they aren't so rational.




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