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8:26am, the four bombers arrive at King's Cross Station and walk to the underground. Making their way to the targets, they blend in easily with the crowd.
8:30am, the bombers separate and head towards separate tube lines.
This is the concourse between the circle and the Metropolitan line. And this is the point where the lines branch off, one heading east, one heading west. And it's probable that this was the last place that the bombers were together and after this point they all separated they were all alone. And this was a crucial phase of the operation: would they stay committed to the cause, would they stay committed to the group, or would they waver and pull out.
Ariel Merari has studied these decisive final moments of suicide bombers in Israel.
Now the question is what prevails, fear or commitment. These are conflicting forces: fear and commitment. The closer the person gets to the target, the greater his fear.
And this fear can affect people differently.
There are suicide bombers who don't hesitate, they go straight to the target and explode, er...not showing any sign of hesitation whatsoever; others, however, do hesitate. Those who hesitate hope that some external intervention will prevent them from completing their mission. For instance, a case of a suicide bomber who entered a restaurant, he first got to the, to the bar, asked for, asked a glass of water from the bartender, drank it and only then as nothing happened, I mean nobody stopped him, he exploded. Now this was a last moment attempt, I suppose, to delay the final act as much as possible. So there are differences between suicide bombers.
8:40am, the bombers head towards crowded rush hour tube trains