On 7/9/07, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>This is factually untrue. Suicide bombing was invented by the LTTE and >is still used by them. Just picking a nit: the LTTE bombers don't seem to be doing it for religious causes, so the above quote is not necessarily untrue.
Wouldn't the Japanese Kamikaze pilots be the 'original' suicide bombers, as such? For emperor and country. Also, I'm pretty sure that suicide bombing was perfected by the LTTE but it has its origins in the Lebanese conflict. Lastly, on the causes: "...a peculiar relationship between the levels of political freedom a nation affords and the severity of terrorism. Though terrorism declined among nations with high levels of political freedom, it was the intermediate nations that seemed most vulnerable. Like those with much political freedom, nations at the other extreme - with tightly controlled autocratic governments - also experienced low levels of terrorism" http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2004/11.04/05-terror.html
