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History Of Suicide Bombing: The First Was A Christian by cocolacec(m): 9:48am On Jun 04, 2015
16:06, UK, Wednesday 27 July 2005
The first recorded suicide bombing came from Christian soldiers during the Crusades to free The Holy City of Jerusalem from the control of Muslim armies. During the Crusades, the Knights Templar destroyed one of their own ships with 140 Christians on board in order to kill 10 times as many Muslims in the opposing fleet.


Even in the Bible a reference is made to a suicide as a means of killing an enemy.

"And Samson said, 'Let me die with the Philistines!' And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life." Book of Judges 16:30, Old Testament.

An early example of suicide bombing occurred during the Belgian Revolution in 1831 - the war between the Dutch and the Belgians - when the Dutch Lt Jan van Speijk blew up his own ship in the harbour of Antwerp to prevent being captured by the Belgians.

He had been ordered to take down his Dutch flag but said: "I would rather blow myself up." He killed dozens of his enemies in the process.

In World War II, Kamikaze pilots acted as human missiles, flying their planes with explosives, directly into US warships.

Young Tokkotai pilots
[img]http://origins.osu.edu/sites/origins.osu.edu/files/styles/image-gallery/public/490px-72nd_Shinbu_1945_Kamikaze.jpg?itok=_lJsnO3B[/img]
Corporal Yukio Araki, 17, holds a puppy and poses with members of his squadron the day before his death in a suicide attack on a U.S. ship in May 1945.

In the 1950s, Viet Minh "death volunteers" were used against the French colonial army.

Most famously, Palestinian organisations have sent more than 70 suicide bombers on missions against Israeli targets.

The Tamil Tigers are another prolific example, and their Black Tiger unit has committed some 76 suicide bombings since 1987 using more than 240 attackers.
[img]http://origins.osu.edu/sites/origins.osu.edu/files/styles/image-gallery/public/200px-Velupillai_Prabhakaran.jpg?itok=-cPjJUGN[/img]
Velupillai Prabhakaran was the founder and leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a militant group that came to be known as the "masters of suicide bombing." When he died, the organization fell apart

Their victims included former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and many prominent Sri Lankan leaders.

In 1981 the Islamic Dawa Party's suicide bomber attacked the Iraqi embassy in Beirut.

Hezbollah carried out a bombing of the US embassy in April 1983 and the attack on US Marine and French barracks in October 1983 which brought international attention to suicide bombings.

By 1999 Islamic factions such as Hezbollah, the Amal Movement and the Ba'ath Party were all using the method.

The Syrian Social Nationalists were the first to use a female suicide bomber.

In 1986 they had carried out around 50 suicide bombings between them.

Hezbollah was the only one to attack overseas, bombing the Israeli embassy.

In September 11, 2001, terrorists used passenger jets to destroy the towers of the World Trade Centre in New York City.

Still the so-called justification of the suicide attacks is spouted by religious and political leaders.

As Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmad Yassin said: "Once we have warplanes and missiles, then we can think of changing our means of legitimate self-defence.

"But right now, we can only tackle the fire with our bare hands and sacrifice ourselves."

In modern history, suicide bombings also appeared as a tactic among the Tamil Tiger seperatist group in Sri Lanka.

Women bombers were used to try to force the government to hand over the Tamil area of the country.

In Iraq, insurgents are using the tactic against Western and Iraqi government targets. They are also killing dozens of civilians.

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Re: History Of Suicide Bombing: The First Was A Christian by Nobody: 9:49am On Jun 04, 2015
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Re: History Of Suicide Bombing: The First Was A Christian by phransix147(m): 9:54am On Jun 04, 2015
Religious Sentiments... If there's a solution to it, there would be peace in the world...
Re: History Of Suicide Bombing: The First Was A Christian by Briareos(m): 9:55am On Jun 04, 2015
Religion brings out the worse in human beings. It has served as a conduit at which human has displayed the most inhumane animalistic act ever conceived by any human mind.

Religion has shed so much blood that you begin to wonder if all these their gods (Allah, Yahweh, etc) have diarhhea.
Re: History Of Suicide Bombing: The First Was A Christian by Nobody: 10:10am On Jun 04, 2015
Anumpam...a christian Lacks the potentials and teachings of Islam. Islam may cannot exist without killings, commitin suicide so as to recieve loots frm their God.

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Re: History Of Suicide Bombing: The First Was A Christian by madridguy(m): 10:16am On Jun 04, 2015
Religion palava
Re: History Of Suicide Bombing: The First Was A Christian by kodded(m): 10:16am On Jun 04, 2015
kai op you can lie o shocked


A suicide attack is a violent attack in which the attacker intends to kill others or cause great destruction and expects to die in the process. Between 1981 and 2006, 1200 suicide attacks occurred around the world, constituting 4% of all terrorist attacks but 32% (14,599 people) of all terrorism-related deaths. 90% of these attacks occurred in Iraq, Israel, the Palestinian territories, Afghanistan, Pakistan or Sri Lanka.[1] Its primary use is as a weapon of psychological warfare intended to affect a larger public audience.[2]

Although the use of suicide attacks has been prevalent throughout history, particularly with the Japanese Kamikaze pilots of World War II, suicide attacks gained global notoriety on October 23, 1983. Suicide attackers targeted the United States Marine Corps and French paratrooper barracks in Lebanon in the 1983 Beirut barracks bombings during the Lebanese Civil War. The suicide attack resulted in the death of 299 Multinational Forces (MNF), including 241 United States servicemen and 58 French paratroopers. The success of this attack undoubtedly played a significant role in the attractiveness of suicide attacks to terrorist and insurgency organizations worldwide. More recently, the number of suicide attacks has grown significantly, from an average of less than five a year in the 1980s to 180 a year in 2001-2005, primarily due to bombings in Iraq following the 2003 US-led invasion.[3]

The motivation of suicide attackers is disputed. Robert Pape attributes over 90% of attacks prior to the Iraq Civil War to a goal of withdrawal of occupying forces.[4] Anthropologist Scott Atran argues that since 2004 the overwhelming majority of bombers have been motivated by the ideology of Islamist martyrdom, and these attacks have been much more numerous. In just two years, 2004–2005, there were more suicide attacks, "roughly 600, than in Pape's entire sample
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_attack
Re: History Of Suicide Bombing: The First Was A Christian by kodded(m): 10:20am On Jun 04, 2015
OREMUSSANCTUS:
Story
Briareos:
Religion brings out the worse in human beings. It has served as a conduit at which human has displayed the most inhumane animalistic act ever conceived by any human mind.

Religion has shed so much blood that you begin to wonder if all these their gods (Allah, Yahweh, etc) have diarhhea.
nwajoshua:
Anumpam...a christian Lacks the potentials and teachings of Islam. Islam may cannot exist without killings, commitin suicide so as to recieve loots frm their God.
madridguy:
Religion palava
phransix147:
Religious Sentiments... If there's a solution to it, there would be peace in the world...
that op can lie

he is a religious bigot who justify the killing of people through suicide bombing and other terrorist attack






A suicide attack is a violent attack in which the attacker intends to kill others or cause great destruction and expects to die in the process. Between 1981 and 2006, 1200 suicide attacks occurred around the world, constituting 4% of all terrorist attacks but 32% (14,599 people) of all terrorism-related deaths. 90% of these attacks occurred in Iraq, Israel, the Palestinian territories, Afghanistan, Pakistan or Sri Lanka.[1] Its primary use is as a weapon of psychological warfare intended to affect a larger public audience.[2]

Although the use of suicide attacks has been prevalent throughout history, particularly with the Japanese Kamikaze pilots of World War II, suicide attacks gained global notoriety on October 23, 1983. Suicide attackers targeted the United States Marine Corps and French paratrooper barracks in Lebanon in the 1983 Beirut barracks bombings during the Lebanese Civil War. The suicide attack resulted in the death of 299 Multinational Forces (MNF), including 241 United States servicemen and 58 French paratroopers. The success of this attack undoubtedly played a significant role in the attractiveness of suicide attacks to terrorist and insurgency organizations worldwide. More recently, the number of suicide attacks has grown significantly, from an average of less than five a year in the 1980s to 180 a year in 2001-2005, primarily due to bombings in Iraq following the 2003 US-led invasion.[3]

The motivation of suicide attackers is disputed. Robert Pape attributes over 90% of attacks prior to the Iraq Civil War to a goal of withdrawal of occupying forces.[4] Anthropologist Scott Atran argues that since 2004 the overwhelming majority of bombers have been motivated by the ideology of Islamist martyrdom, and these attacks have been much more numerous. In just two years, 2004–2005, there were more suicide attacks, "roughly 600, than in Pape's entire sample
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_attack
Re: History Of Suicide Bombing: The First Was A Christian by zik4ever: 10:32am On Jun 04, 2015
Its good to know history but our priority now is to end BH and all terrorists in Nigeria including those yet to be discovered. Several religious extremists are in our country and some of them feature online, possibly discernable even from their posts on Facebook and Nairaland etc.
Re: History Of Suicide Bombing: The First Was A Christian by cocolacec(m): 10:58am On Jun 04, 2015
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”Santayana,The Life of Reason, 1905


"History cannot give us a program for the future, but it can give us a fuller understanding of ourselves, and of our common humanity, so that we can better face the future." Robert Penn Warren

"Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who ever have been, and ever shall be, animated by the same passions, and thus they necessarily have the same results." Machiavelli
Re: History Of Suicide Bombing: The First Was A Christian by Vanityupnvanity(m): 6:09pm On Jun 04, 2015
Op abeg comot 4 my front i wan see road undecided
Re: History Of Suicide Bombing: The First Was A Christian by cocolacec(m): 4:00pm On Jun 05, 2015
Vanityupnvanity:
Op abeg comot 4 my front i wan see road undecided
kodded:
kai op you can lie o shocked
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_attack


I DIDNOT CREATE THE WRITE UP FOR MYSELF YOU CAN ASK SKY NEWS NETWORK ABOUT THE AUTHENTICITY OF THEIR REPORT.
Re: History Of Suicide Bombing: The First Was A Christian by cocolacec(m): 4:20pm On Jun 05, 2015

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