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Lifestyle => Train of Thought => Topic started by: Samoan Enforcer on April 12, 2007, 04:15:06 PM
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Suicide bombings against civilians in Iraq have increased dramatically since the start of the year and are deadlier than ever, a Middle East think tank said in a report Monday.
The study by the Gulf Research Center found 92 confirmed suicide attacks against civilian targets in February and March compared with 62 in the last two months of 2006.
Injured Iraqi girls cry at a hospital in Kirkuk, Iraq, 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of Baghdad, Monday, April 2, 2007. A suicide truck bomber targeted a police station in the oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk on Monday, killing at least 13 people and wounding dozens, including many children from a nearby school, police said. (AP Photo/Emad Matti)
"Since January they have sustained the highest level of suicide attacks since 2005, and higher casualty rates than at any period of the war," said Nicole Stracke, the report's editor.
Stracke suggested that attackers were trying to discredit U.S. plans to quell the violence, particularly the decision announced in January to send thousands of more troops to Iraq.
Favored "soft" targets included cafes, weddings, funerals, markets and Shiite Muslim religious sites _ all of which are far less protected than "hard" targets like U.S. military bases and Iraqi government offices.
About 60 percent of Iraq's suicide attacks were carried out with explosives-rigged vehicles. Attacks using multiple bombs are also on the rise, Stracke said. Al-Qaida in Iraq and four other groups are behind most of the mayhem, according to the report.
The report also looked at the impact of suicide attacks worldwide.
Use of the tactic is increasing fastest in Afghanistan _ by more than 750 percent _ jumping from 21 in 2005 to 180 in 2006, the report said.
"The success of suicide bombing in Iraq is having an effect everywhere," said Mustafa Alani, a military analyst at the Gulf Research Center.
Suicide bombers are especially effective largely because they can switch targets or change routes, the report said. While bombs carried by individuals in vests or backpacks can kill victims as far as 30 yards away, a car bomb's kill zone stretches as far as 400 yards.
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why arent any of you cocksuckers facing the savage atrocities of these desert animals? cowards!
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why arent any of you cocksuckers facing the savage atrocities of these desert animals? cowards!
1. the evil of these acts go without sayin, does me spellin it out make u sleep better at night, banana?
2. somewhere at somepoint, u pale faced cock suckers have ur hand up in the mix
not to imply by my answer that im a cocksucker
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No outrage over the millions of iraqis who have met their deaths at the hands of the U.N or military forces then?....just when it comes to suicide bombers. Apart from the obvious simple minded double think which that displays, it's not difficult to envisage that the intel agencies are supplying the groups with the explosives they need to carry out their suicide bombings.
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Once the Sunni and Shia are politically united they will turn on the US and demand we leave, the somewhat united Shia are doing this already.
However, the suicide bombings are totally senseless and shock us, every suicide bombing outrages us as to the senseless violence of the Muslim people, so we feel we must stay in Iraq to stop the two sides from suicide bombing each other.
But imagine if the Shia and the Sunni were poltically united? You can bet they would move politically and militarily to remove us from Iraq. What excuse would we have to stay in Iraq when Iraq's own Government wants us out of the country?
The sad fact is, these suicide bombings provide us with a clear understanding of what to do in Iraq.
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it's not difficult to envisage that the intel agencies are supplying the groups with the explosives they need to carry out their suicide bombings.
where did you find that out?
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No outrage over the millions of iraqis who have met their deaths at the hands of the U.N or military forces then?....just when it comes to suicide bombers. Apart from the obvious simple minded double think which that displays, it's not difficult to envisage that the intel agencies are supplying the groups with the explosives they need to carry out their suicide bombings.
everything is a conspiracy to you do your really think george bush is that powerful and is controlling absolutely everything bad that happens in the world and no one has the ability to act spontaniously? really sometimes you are rediculas.
Also do you really think suicide bombers would be getting their shit from the people they hate the most and then blowing themselves up i don't even think those wack jobs are that stupid. If the intel agencies were orchestrating it all I don't think their recruits would chose to use such extreme tactics.
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No outrage over the millions of iraqis who have met their deaths at the hands of the U.N or military forces then?....just when it comes to suicide bombers. Apart from the obvious simple minded double think which that displays, it's not difficult to envisage that the intel agencies are supplying the groups with the explosives they need to carry out their suicide bombings.
everything is a conspiracy to you do your really think george bush is that powerful and is controlling absolutely everything bad that happens in the world and no one has the ability to act spontaniously? really sometimes you are rediculas.
Also do you really think suicide bombers would be getting their shit from the people they hate the most and then blowing themselves up i don't even think those wack jobs are that stupid. If the intel agencies were orchestrating it all I don't think their recruits would chose to use such extreme tactics.
he must live a real sad life.