Am Montag, 9. Juli 2007 07:07 schrieb Gautam John: > 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.
I would like to add Samson (Simson) as a prime example of a Hebrew (Jewish) religiously motivated suicidal "bomber". Well, he didn't bomb himself, but destroyed an atrium (or whatever, some huge building anyway) and with it (and himself) thousands of Philistines (see Book of Judges ch. 16). Martin -- Dr. Martin Senftleben, Ph.D. (S.V.U.) http://www.drmartinus.de/ http://www.daskirchenjahr.de/
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