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Originally posted by peter12@Jul 20 2005, 08:39 PM
The IRA used suicide bombers several times in the 1970's on high risk targets such as military bases. Instead of religous fanatics they kidnapped British civilians and forced them to take the "package" to the target and then detonated the bomb.
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C'mon . . . that's not remotely the same.
That would be like having Britain under occupation with Britishers travelling to Beijing, forcing Chinese civilians to wear suicide vests under the threat of killing their families and then detonating them while they're on a subway.
That's NOT a suicide bomber in the vein we are talking about, a motivated, self-propelled bomb. That's a victim just like the rest.
Incidentally, that's what Al-Queda does in Iraq as well . . . .
Israel hasn't used suicide bombers before but modern terrorists do take alot of their infiltration and assasination methods from the Jewish terrorist groups of the 1940s.
That has nothing to do with the conversation.
Cowperson