Suicide bombers wreaking havoc with aid of impenetrable disguises

SOME bleach their hair. Some dress as women or soldiers. Others cloak themselves in black coats and hats to blend into the crowds of Jerusalem’s Orthodox Jews.

Looking like Israelis, many suicide bombers have simply slipped past police and guards and blown themselves up, wreaking instant death and panic. The 18-year-old Palestinian who blew up a bus in the heart of Jerusalem on Wednesday wore the black garb of an ultra-Orthodox Jew.

He probably raised no suspicions at all before he detonated the explosives hidden under his clothes despite security services being on high alert.