By Michael C. Shaughnessy. 113 Penn St. L. Rev. 923.
At 8:50 in the morning on July 7, in a subway car packed with morning commuters on their way to work in a major metropolitan city, a suicide bomber detonates the explosives concealed in his backpack. Across town on another subway car, commuters observe a young man fiddling with his backpack seconds before it explodes, ripping the car to shreds. An instant later, a third explosion rocks yet another subway train, stranding maimed and panicked passengers in between stations. Within two minutes, nearly forty people taking the morning trip to work have been killed and another 600 have been injured . . . [keep reading]