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Originally posted by Spiffor
Most suicide bombers come from middle-class urban background, at least in Palestine.
Most suicide bombers come from middle-class urban background, at least in Palestine.
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Most Texan's come from west of the Mississippi, at least in Texas.Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
"Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
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Go ahead guys.Comment
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Originally posted by lightblue
I think the death rate was (relatively) low because all the bombs were in 1sr class carriages. They weren't targetting the real full carriages but the bankers/laywers etc in the front.
Are you saying that this is some commie plot ?
Btw. Has anybody seen Che lately ? He found his passport and there seems not to be any hurricanes to occupy him so ....With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven WeinbergComment
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Originally posted by Spiffor
Nah, he'll argue that, regardless of Al Qaeda's involvement, "Al Queda" is completely innocent
Ah, I missed that
Al Queda's ideology, of course, would involve reuniting the francophone world, murdering the evil moderate francophones (starting with Jacques Chirac) liberating Quebec, New Brunswick, Manitoba, Louisiana, Illinois, etc and establishing M. de Ladin as roi de soleil.
Note to vesayen - when an english word with a q is of arabic origin, rather than French, the q does NOT need to be followed by U."A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin BuberComment
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Yes but if we spell it THEIR way(even if it is a proper noun by now) the terrorists WIN!!!!!
You want to compromise with terrorists?
What kind of American are you!?!?!?
Traitor!Comment
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Originally posted by Smiley
In the end, regardless of which group is behind it, terrorism is fundamentally a rural vs. urban issue, which is why developed countries don't spawn terrorists.
The Northern-Irish IRA? The German RAF? The Italian Red Brigades? The French Action Directe? The Basque ETA?DISCLAIMER: the author of the above written texts does not warrant or assume any legal liability or responsibility for any offence and insult; disrespect, arrogance and related forms of demeaning behaviour; discrimination based on race, gender, age, income class, body mass, living area, political voting-record, football fan-ship and musical preference; insensitivity towards material, emotional or spiritual distress; and attempted emotional or financial black-mailing, skirt-chasing or death-threats perceived by the reader of the said written texts.Comment
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Yeah, this is a tragedy and all that.
What sickens me, however is that in Chicago, the front-page news, the leading stories are about a ****ing Blue Line derailment that only injured 150--from smoke inhalation.
Not only that, but people are now worried that it was some sort of terror attack instead of being more sensible and thinking it was some sort of accident. Jesus **** christ.
It's like the media thinks those dot Injuns over there in India don't matter as much!B♭3Comment
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Q Cubed-is it possible when the article was written it was not yet confirmed what happened and they did not have time to update the story?
Colon:
Would any of those individuals use suicide attacks? "Western" terrorists are different from Muslim fundamentalists in important ways. I am not going to touch the moral culpability of either groups with a 10 foot long stick.Comment
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Oh, God.
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Do you realise that at least until several years ago (the whole Iraq-fiasco may have changed things) the lionshare of all suicide-attack around the world were commited by the non-muslim, non-Arab Tamil Tigers?Originally posted by Vesayen
Q Cubed-is it possible when the article was written it was not yet confirmed what happened and they did not have time to update the story?
Colon:
Would any of those individuals use suicide attacks? "Western" terrorists are different from Muslim fundamentalists in important ways. I am not going to touch the moral culpability of either groups with a 10 foot long stick.DISCLAIMER: the author of the above written texts does not warrant or assume any legal liability or responsibility for any offence and insult; disrespect, arrogance and related forms of demeaning behaviour; discrimination based on race, gender, age, income class, body mass, living area, political voting-record, football fan-ship and musical preference; insensitivity towards material, emotional or spiritual distress; and attempted emotional or financial black-mailing, skirt-chasing or death-threats perceived by the reader of the said written texts.Comment
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No, the terrorist bit is just listening to people talk. It's not in the news stories.Originally posted by Vesayen
Q Cubed-is it possible when the article was written it was not yet confirmed what happened and they did not have time to update the story?
The problem is not with them so much as the fact that the very much less severe derailment with no deaths is getting more airplay than, say, over 100 people getting blowed the **** up.B♭3Comment
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The tamil tigers mainly, if not exclusively, attacked military targets. While I do not excuse attacks on military targets, depending on circumstances, what is shocking about the terror attacks is the murder of civilian victims, not the willingness of the perps to die. That seems to have caught many peoples interest, and it certainly makes them harder to stop, tactically, but its NOT the crux of what this is about.Originally posted by Colon™
Do you realise that at least until several years ago (the whole Iraq-fiasco may have changed things) the lionshare of all suicide-attack around the world were commited by the non-muslim, non-Arab Tamil Tigers?"A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin BuberComment
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Hmm, like the suicide bomb assassination of former PM Rajiv Gandhi?Originally posted by lord of the mark
The tamil tigers mainly, if not exclusively, attacked military targets.Comment
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The LTTE (Tamil Tigers), and other terrorist groups like ULFA, Aum Shinrikyo, etc., do/did attack civilians.Originally posted by lord of the mark
The tamil tigers mainly, if not exclusively, attacked military targets. While I do not excuse attacks on military targets, depending on circumstances, what is shocking about the terror attacks is the murder of civilian victims, not the willingness of the perps to die. That seems to have caught many peoples interest, and it certainly makes them harder to stop, tactically, but its NOT the crux of what this is about.
But you're right in that those attacks are on a much smaller scale.THEY!!111 OMG WTF LOL LET DA NOMADS AND TEH S3D3NTARY PEOPLA BOTH MAEK BITER AXP3REINCES
AND TEH GRAAT SINS OF THERE [DOCTRINAL] INOVATIONS BQU3ATH3D SMAL
AND!!1!11!!! LOL JUST IN CAES A DISPUTANT CALS U 2 DISPUT3 ABOUT THEYRE CLAMES
DO NOT THAN DISPUT3 ON THEM 3XCAPT BY WAY OF AN 3XTARNAL DISPUTA!!!!11!! WTFComment
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From Wiki (obviously not to be taken as "gospel")
"The accusation of terrorism is based in part on the suspicion that the LTTE has been responsible for targeted assassination of political figures and non-military officials, and in part on its use of suicide bombers. Between 1991 and 1994, it has been accused of killing Rajiv Gandhi, Lalith Athulathmudali, Ranasinghe Premadasa and Gamini Dissanayake. It has also been accused of killing moderate Tamils and other Tamils with whose views it disagrees, such as Appapillai Amirthalingam, Neelan Tiruchelvam, Sarojini Yogeswaran, Pon Sivapalan, Lakshman Kadirgamar. The LTTE has vehemently denied involvement in several of these incidents. However, Indian courts have issued an international warrant to arrest both Velupillai Prabakaran[9] and its intelligence chief Pottu Amman[10]in connection with the Rajiv Gandhi [11] killing. Although the LTTE deny any involvement, they did issue a statement in June of 2006 calling the event a "monumental tragedy". In addition, LTTE bombings have been known to cause civilian casualties. The Sri Lankan government has accused the LTTE of targeting non-military and government targets including the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy, the Dehiwala train[citation needed] and the Central Bank in Colombo. LTTE supporters have argued that civilian deaths were mainly due to collateral damage and it was not LTTE policy to target civilians.
The LTTE's supporters justify some of the targeted assassinations by arguing that the people assassinated were either "Tamil traitors" or persons closely associated with Sri Lankan military intelligence. "
I am NOT denying that LTTE has taken part in terrorist acts, though at least some of them seem to be disputed. I am saying that the LTTE, which seems to feel the need to deny targeting civilians, is a far cry from groups like Al Qaeeda and Lashkar e Taiba, like Hamas, etc that revel in the murder of civilians - and not just govt leaders, but ordinary folks, even children."A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin BuberComment
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