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Few weapons in the terrorist’s arsenal are as devastating as suicide bombing – or as poorly understood, for serious analysis has apparently given way to the desire to avoid conferring on the attackers any legitimacy whatsoever.
The first includes the perpetrators of the attacks on the United States in 2001, the Bali bombing in 2002, the Madrid train bombing in 2003, and the London bombings in the summer of 2005.
Thus, despite repeated condemnation by establishment figures within the ummah (the worldwide community of Muslims), some forms of suicide bombing may enjoy the quiet admiration of many.
As long as no distinction is made between nationalist extremists and fanatical terrorists like Al Qaeda, the latter will be able to masquerade as the defenders of Muslims who are seen as “driven” to resort to suicide bombing because of military weakness.
Ignoring the various dimensions of suicide bombing, and the outlook of the groups responsible, America and its allies have been left helpless to comprehend, much less address, the largely indifferent reaction of many Muslims to the US-led “war on terror.”
By 1988, Libya’s clash with the West reached its apex with the bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
But the result of intervention was that US forces became just one more target, culminating in the 1983 bombing of a US Marine barracks that killed 241 American soldiers.
A similar suicide bombing two days later claimed the lives of 58 French soldiers.
China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has accused Uyghur separatist organizations, such as the Eastern Turkestan Information Center and the Uyghur Liberation Front, of being responsible for attacks ranging from the bombing of the Chinese consulate in Istanbul to a March 1997 bus bombing in Beijing.
Far from intimidating the Palestinians by bombing Gaza and mobilizing troops, the Israelis made Hamas look heroic in its resistance.
Besides, even if bombing ISIS strongholds in Iraq or Syria makes military sense, it won’t break the spell of Islamist revolution for frustrated, bored, and marginalized young people in French slums.
What is true is that the Israelis lacked a coherent war plan, so that even their most purposeful bombing came off as brutally destructive (though with a deterrence payoff, as Syria’s immobility showed).
Last month, Salman Ramadan Abedi – a 22-year-old British-born son of Libyan immigrants – carried out a suicide bombing at the concert of the American pop star Ariana Grande in Manchester, England.
The bombing – the worst terrorist attack in the United Kingdom in more than a decade – can be described only as blowback from the activities of the UK and its allies in Libya, where external intervention has given rise to a battle-worn terrorist haven.
Abu Bakar Ba’asyir is a radical Muslim cleric who was convicted of blessing the original 2002 Bali bombing, and suspected by some of providing much more.
When Israel launched a lengthy bombing campaign in Lebanon last month, it created so many civilian casualties that the early criticisms of Hezbollah by Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia became untenable in Arab politics.
The bombing of Serbia by NATO in 1999 heavily damaged its economy, with serious consequences for neighboring countries.
That happened to Yue Zhengzhong, who sent an intercepted letter to the US Embassy praising the 1999 bombing of China's Embassy in Belgrade.
In the meantime, opposition to the US, expressed as suicide bombing and other forms of terrorism, will very likely increase.
Realpolitik brought us the bombing of Cambodia and the mass killings under Pol Pot.
For example, there is little more to Senator Ted Cruz’s calls for “carpet bombing” Iraqi and Syrian territory held by the Islamic State than a vague understanding that there is a pest out there that needs to be exterminated.
After all, the $10 billion or so in costs of bombing Kosovo this spring could probably have paid for the needed scientific work over the next few years on all three vaccines!
In the Balkans, bombing was carried out mainly by the US; peacekeeping mainly by Europeans.
As the Bosnian war was winding down in 1995, Gligorov was the target of an assassination attempt, a car bombing that killed his driver.
The group has carried out a series of attacks in Turkey, including a recent suicide bombing in Gaziantep that left 54 dead.
On May 27, 1999, at the height of the NATO bombing campaign, Judge Louise Arbour of Canada, Mrs. del Ponte’s predecessor as the Hague Tribunal’s chief prosecutor, issued a warrant for the arrest of President Slobodan Milosevic.
Perhaps several thousand Serbian civilians were killed during the NATO bombing.
By bombing Serbia's infrastructure, NATO also violated Article 14 of the 1977 Protocol of the Geneva Convention of 1949, which prohibits attacks on "objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population."
A country of 9.5 million people, it is providing refuge to 2.9 million non-citizens, including 1.265 million Syrians, and facing the influx of additional Syrians uprooted by Russian bombing.
But bombing would only delay Iran’s nuclear program, not stop it.
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