Suicide bombings - new tactic for Iraq

[socialnarcotic]

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/03/30/1048962625301.html


This really disturbs me... I was finally coming to accept the war after all I studied and knew, but this has left me shocked and disgusted.

Your opinions?

[ParadigmshiftA]

It killed 4 soldiers, i think the article said 11.

yeah it disturbs me, but no more than any of the other killings. I cant understand how the american spokesman differentiates this to any of the other attacks from either side.

A bomb with a suicide bomber is a terrorist attack but a bomb dropped out of a plane isnt?

Sure, its difficult to understand how someone could voluntarily end their own life and it probably is an act of desperation, but the result is exactly the same.

[sofu]

Oh well. Gets them back for all those innocent civilians they killed.

[Shadrach]

I should think there is far more honour in a soldier willingly and deliberately sacrificing his own life to fight the enemy than doing from a distance or great height consequence free... do you think they might at least have conviction for the cause that they are fighting for?

To describe this tactic as 'disgusting' or 'criminal' is the height of hipocrasy... but then we are getting used to that...

interesting how iraqi POW's are 'captured' but American POW's are 'kidnapped'

[El Capitan]

So do we now label Japanese Kamakazi pilots as terrorists??
They attacked soldiers in a theatre of war.........interesting to note is that the spiritual leader of the Iraqi Shia(who also oppose saddam) also warned the US theyve got suicide units ready to attack britain and the US if the foreign occupation lasts longer than what has been said............this war has been such a brilliant idea!!!!:tripping: