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==Forensic investigation== Suicide bombers who wear the vests are often obliterated by the explosion; the best evidence of their identity is the head, which often remains relatively intact because it is separated and thrown clear off the body by the explosion. Journalist [[Joby Warrick]] conjectured: "The vest's tight constraints and the positioning of the explosive pouches would channel the energy of the blast outward, toward whoever stood directly in front of him. Some of that energy wave would inevitably roll upward, ripping the bomber's body apart at its weakest point, between the neck bones and lower jaw. It accounts for the curious phenomenon in which suicide bombers' heads are severed clean at the moment of detonation and are later found in a state of perfect preservation several metres away from the torso's shredded remains."<ref name="Warrick2012">{{cite book|author=Joby Warrick|title=The Triple Agent: The Al-Qaeda Mole Who Infiltrated the CIA|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aqEwcvoakJMC&q=%22severed+clean%22&pg=PA151|year=2012|publisher=Vintage Books|isbn=978-0-307-74231-5|page=151}}</ref>
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