Who are the suicide Bombers? Are they not those who lost families in US attack since 2003?
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turboweegie " A$$hole "\n\nI'm from Saudi Arabia\nand i wish to go to Iraq and join the Mujaheddin\nand kick your sissy soldiers asses\n\nViva la Resistance
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suicide and suicide bombing are two different deaths with different intentions.\n\n\nSuicide is a means to an end dear.  A poor choice, a poor last resort.\n\nSuicide bombing is death with a so-called "holy mission" to achieve.  Suicide bombers normally focus on their mission and believe it's for a greater purpose.  Also most of them believe it brings them martyrdom, while forgetting it brings the families of the victims grief and pain.
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Good question!\n\nI don't know the number of suicide bombers to date.\n\nBut there was that Davidian cult in Waco where they all 57 killed themselves.  Guess it's more than that.\n\nBut given that those without religion (ie atheists) are more likely to commit suicide (whether lack of hope or just plain greater proportion of the population) - it's gonna be them to be honest.\n\nQuestion is which deaths serves more purpose?
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Is this family heartbroken? \nSomewhere in Iraq, a family sits down to a Id al-Fitr dinner. The weather is warm, Dad has been busy cooking. People exchange cards and give food and money to the needy. Children wear new clothes, girls decorate their feet and hands with henna, and families and friends exchange visits All are seated. They take each others’ hands as they worry when the next air strike might occur, bounded in a circle of love. The father looks so much older now even though it’s been just a year since they last observed this day devoted to Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son Issac. The  dark circles surround his eyes, his wrinkles are deeper and their is obviously more gray in his hair. His shoulders almost seem bent down from some inner burden. \nHe looks around the table at his lovely family. Each looks sadly at the empty chair missing their loved ones who died in a war that was illegal and unjust. 9-year-old Eman Walid tells story about when the Marines burst into the home where most of her terrified family--including her mother, grandfather, grandmother, two brothers, two aunts and two uncles--was huddled together in the living room in their nightclothes.“First, they went into my father’s room, where he was reading the Koran,” she said, “and we heard shots.” Then, she said, the soldiers came back into the living room. “I couldn’t see their faces very well--only their guns sticking into the doorway. I watched them shoot my grandfather, first in the chest and then in the head. Then they killed my granny.” The Marines, she says, began firing into the corner of the room while the adults tried to shield her and her 8-year-old brother. Seven adults were killed, her brother was shot in the shoulder, and she suffered a shrapnel wound to her leg. “We were lying there, bleeding, and it hurt so much,” she says. “Afterward, some Iraqi soldiers came. They carried us in their arms. I was crying, shouting, ‘Why did you do this to our family?’ And one Iraqi soldier tells me, ‘We didn’t do it. The Americans did.’” In this day of remembering loved ones, we will love them forever...
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Atleast they don't have to worry about being burried alive, hacked to pieces, tortured, and raped by a mad man. We won't owe them anything we have freed them. Millions of Families were DESTROYED by Saddams estimated 6 million brutal killings compared to what i would aggressively estimate at 20,000 families damaged by deaths after he was deposed. They are better off now then pre-war Iraq. Has Saddam repaid the families he deystroyed???
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Muslim people are strapping bombs to their bodies and blowing up innocent children and adults.  I saw footage of people dancing in the streets whe news of 9/11 was made public.  And the hijackers on the planes that day were all Muslims, at least the words they said were in praise of Allah. \nYou are not telling the truth.
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Most of time suicide bombers are those who have lost much in their life,relatives, house etc as a result of unjust actions of others. They are not going to check religious scriptures to find the appropriate action that they have to take. Their action are as result of frustruation than islam. Civillians should never be attacked but I don't see any difference in bombing civilian houses from planes and helicopters and what suicide bombers are doing. They both kill innocents. I would contempt both types of terrorism. \n\nSuicide and suicide bombing is going against Islam because your own hand are responsible for your death. Quran Says\n"cast not yourselves to perdition with your own hands;" 2:195.\nIn the case of suicide bombing there is also extra sin of killing innocents. \n\nThere are minority Islamic groups that supports suicide bombing and these victims of injustice gets attracted to these groups.
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I would hate to even think about it. But revenge is the answer. Isn't that the first reason Afghanistan, then Iraq were invaded to revenge 9/11. It's human nature, only there has been no concrete proof approved by the UN to prove they were responsible - only media coverage that had the effect of mass brain washing and that has confessed that Iraq had nothing to with 9/11 or had WMD.\n\nIraqi and other people are being punished and labeled as terrorists simply because they are defending their country; a country that was invaded for no reason, lately being bringing them democracy! Democracy on the other hand would not accept that people are jailed, sent off to be tortured for years without a trial then maybe finally released without being convicted of anything.\n\nThese people (Iraqis etc.) have nothing to defend themselves with against heavy military weapons, napalm bombs bombarding on them and their loved ones, destroying their homes and the infrastructure of their country and yet they fight back, they are terrorists!\n\nOther nations, can shoot children and women on the beach because they have a "right to defend themselves" while other nations are being fought on their own soil by invaders and they do not have this same right. I cannot understand the discrimination and double standards applied.
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It all depends on your definition, and who is counting.\nIf some Sunni nut kills a bunch of Shi'ites, but not Americans, is he a terrorist?\n\nAl-Qaeda claims it has 12,000 members.
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There is a difference between Islamic Fundamentalists and Islamic Fundamentalist  Terrorist's.  The terrorist'sare spread out between all the Muslim Countries, yet there is no country that is terrorist alone.  So we actually have a war against an ideal and not against a particular country.  The terrorist backing is growing and the fact that they use things such as the political cartoons as reasons to get thousands of people to protest over them.  One does not know exactly who the enemy actually is.  That is what terrorism is all about one minute everything looks completely innocent and the next you have been attacked and there is nobody left on sight to go after, they have died completing their mission.  Can we surgically remove all of this cancer on mankind without killing many innocent?  It is not very likely but it is the direction that we have taken this war.  We certainly have the weapons to remove all of the people of this region of the world several times over.  One must wonder if the terrorists are not also playing to the hearts and minds of the rest of the Islamic Fundamentalist's when many of the rioter's of the past week have chanted bin Ladens name and asked for retaliation against the western world to be carried out by him.  It would seem to me that our government certainly must be looking at these incidents very carefully.  I can not speak for the rest of the Western World, however I know that the U.S. has the power to destroy the world several times over and could certainly remove most Islamic Fundamentalist's in one swift blow and it is our restaint in wanting to be fair that keeps this from happening.  Most of today's terrorist activity is being aimed at other Muslims and not at the western world, which raises a whole list of other questions.  The answer to your question is the U.S. is not afraid of standing up to Islamic Fundamentalist Terrorist's, however that does not include the entire Muslim population in the world.
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Here you go:\n\n1920\n    Sept. 16, New York City: TNT bomb planted in unattended horse-drawn wagon exploded on Wall Street opposite House of Morgan, killing 35 people and injuring hundreds more. Bolshevist or anarchist terrorists believed responsible, but crime never solved.\n\n1975\n    Jan. 24, New York City: bomb set off in historic Fraunces Tavern killed 4 and injured more than 50 people. Puerto Rican nationalist group (FALN) claimed responsibility, and police tied 13 other bombings to the group.\n   \n1993\n    Feb. 26, New York City: bomb exploded in basement garage of World Trade Center, killing 6 and injuring at least 1,040 others. In 1995, militant Islamist Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and 9 others were convicted of conspiracy charges, and in 1998, Ramzi Yousef, believed to have been the mastermind, was convicted of the bombing. Al-Qaeda involvement is suspected.\n\n1995\n    April 19, Oklahoma City: car bomb exploded outside federal office building, collapsing wall and floors. 168 people were killed, including 19 children and 1 person who died in rescue effort. Over 220 buildings sustained damage. Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols later convicted in the antigovernment plot to avenge the Branch Davidian standoff in Waco, Tex., exactly 2 years earlier. (See Miscellaneous Disasters.)\n   \n2001\n    Sept. 11, New York City, Arlington, Va., and Shanksville, Pa.: hijackers crashed 2 commercial jets into twin towers of World Trade Center; 2 more hijacked jets were crashed into the Pentagon and a field in rural Pa. Total dead and missing numbered 2,9921: 2,749 in New York City, 184 at the Pentagon, 40 in Pa., and 19 hijackers. Islamic al-Qaeda terrorist group blamed. (See September 11, 2001: Timeline of Terrorism.)\n\n\nFor all terrorist attacks involving the deaths of Americans, visit the site below:
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I don't agree with the US not branding them as terrorists, but consider this. You said the IRA has been doing the exact same thing . Well, not entirely. I don't think the IRA has killed 3,000 people in one day. I understand what your saying and I think any number of people lost is bad, but that was a pretty massive number.
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less safe. Radical muslims who didn't hate us before hate us now. Terrorists were virtually non-existant in Iraq before we invaded, now Iraq is a training ground.\n\nedit: More of the neo-con talking point "they hate us for our freedom". How about "they hate us for our indiscriminate use of overwhelming power, political, and economic dominance and our support of repressive regimes, like Israel and Saudi Arabia"? It has nothing to do with our freedom or our way of life.\n\nMaybe I didn't make my point clear - More Muslims hate us now than before we invaded a soverign nation.  Yes, some Muslims have hated us for over 30 years because of our unconditional support of Israel over the Palestinians. Now there are more hating us because of the Iraq invasion. More hatred = more terrorists.\n\nThere are other countries that are in flagrant violation of UN resolutions, like Turkey, Israel, and the Soviet Union. Would you condone US action against them, too?\n\nLook at Saudi Arabia, where most of the 9/11 hijackers came from.  Saudi Arabia contributed $5 billion to Iraq's nuclear weapons program between 1985 and 1990. While the U.S. government vocally opposes the development or procurement of ballistic missiles by non-allies, it has been very quiet about the fact that Saudi Arabia possesses the longest-range ballistic missiles of any developing country. Saudi Arabia is working closely with Pakistan to advance their nuclear program. This scares me a hell of a lot more than Iraq did.
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Well for a bunch of Pakis... it is right, because all they learn from birth till suicide bomb death is how to become a suicide bomber.. So yes, for a bunch of morons, it is oaky...well, it  reduces America's burdern if pakis are destroying their own property...good.
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To Shug and Ben, you obviously DON'T remember 9/11. Osama bin Laden, a Saudi, attacked the United States on that day. However, instead of going after the person who attacked us, Georgie went after Iraq. Where is Osama? In Tora Bora, protected by the Conserviweenies who're scared of protecting us just because Pakistan is harboring a terrorist. As for Iraq, this is for oil. Where were you?
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All of the above.\nIslamic Suicide Bombers are radicals, or religious activists.\n\nPolitics fuel their activity, because in some ways they can threaten to destroy citites and town with just a push of a button. Or, the other way around- the governmnt (undercover) can force a person to become a suicide bomber. Such people believe so firmly in their views that they are erady to sacrifice their life for them, dying while quoting words, fomr say, the Q,uaran.\n\nPsychology is also a main factor, because a significant amount of Muslims are trained to respect, admire, and 'idolize' suicide bombers . They grow up under strict conditions, and are taught to want to be suicide bombers when they age. They grow up with this mentality fueling their destiny and future. You can see this through photos of Islamic children holding guns, sporting weapons.\n\nI don't wish to criticizze the Islamic cultue so greatl, but it is a must. Things are happening in the Middle East that noone can ignore. Even  some sensible muslims actually have the nerve to rebel against old ways, to question their traditions, and to reconsider their way of life. Such Muslims as these realize the horrible potential of their childhood, and how they must fight it. They also come to acknowledge the fact that the way they were raised is wrong.\n\nHowever, not many come to this point.\n\n\n\n\n\nI take this is an opinionated question, so I hope that my answer is acceptable.\n\nReligious views are also important to consider. Activists will do anything to get their point across, and are found in   each of the three main monotheistic beliefs. Radicals go to extreme lengths to establish their views, and bombing is one of them.
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so you believe that because twenty or thirty people are killed that america is weak?\nWhat does that say for the 700 people rounded up after al zarqawi was killed in a US airstrike?\nWhat does that mean for UBL, living in a hole in the mountains and wiping his butt with leaves?\nWhat strength is there for a bunch of uneducated Arabs running for their lives every day until they are finally killed?