Truemors
Opinion
Barry Artiste, Now Public Contributor
Life has to be pretty dismal for someone to take their own life and that of the lives around them.
Female Suicide Bombers are the ultimate weapon besides children who know their presence will be disarming to soldiers as they blend into the populace, with the unwary going about their daily business, never knowing if this will be their last day on earth.
Today's recent suicide bombing took the lives of innocents by a Terrorist group bent on killing their own to make a point, a point that certainly escapes most of us.
A child playing in the streets, or the family out for groceries
last time I checked was of little Military value to the terrorists or anyone for that matter. What does killing them accomplish?
Terrorists call themselves Freedom Fighters. Fighting against who, a small child? Because if you ask me, it certainly seems like a lot of small children and families are being wiped off the face of the earth, depriving them of their freedoms.
One thing perhaps we all forget is the name Terrorist, a name to inflict terror in everyone, even the innocents.
I do not see any Freedom Fighting going on if you ask me, just a lot of opportunistic mass random killings of innocents.
IRBIL, Iraq - A girl strapped with explosives approaches an Iraqi army captain, who dies in the suicide blast. A woman posing as a mother-to-be to disguise a bulging bomb belt strikes a wedding procession as part of a co-ordinated attack that kills nearly three dozen people.
The attacks last month were among the latest blows by female suicide bombers - and further evidence of shifting insurgent tactics amid an overall drop in bloodshed around Iraq.
U.S. military figures show the number of female suicide attacks has risen from eight in 2007 to at least 16 so far this year - not including a suicide bombing Friday near Ramadi that Iraqi police believe was carried out by a woman. That compares with a total of four in 2005 and 2006, according to the military.
Some female bombers appear motivated by revenge, like the woman who killed 15 people in Diyala province Dec. 7. She was a former member of Saddam Hussein's Baath party whose two sons joined al-Qaida in Iraq and were killed by Iraqi security forces.
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at 16:35 on June 22nd, 2008
Barry - I've never wanted credit for it but several years back, I started a writing campaign to most of the major media lobbying for a name change. I pointed out that cowardly terrorists had claimed the title of suicide bombers and the media was in fact complicit in advancing that spin. Rather than continuing to call them suicide bombers, we need to insist on calling them what they really are: Homicide Bombers. Calling them what they are will go a long way in framing these people more accurately in the media, rather than glorifying their cause any further.
Some news channels have now been calling them homicide bombers but the practice is still spotty. I hope we can continue to spread the word.
On a side note, it's even more despicable that these people are now resorting to using children and the mentally handicapped to carry out their evil agenda as their numbers start dimishing from attrition.