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But that danger becomes far more acute in a combat zone, where nuclear materials and weapons are at risk of theft, and reactors can become bombing targets.
As such, both fighting without the ruler’s explicit permission and suicide bombing are unlawful.
The government's fanning of the flames of xenophobic nationalism after the recent bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade is just the most recent sign of a deep sense of insecurity, which is also reflected in the suppression of dissenting voices.
Had this been a random car bombing, my organization, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), would not have spent the last year investigating it or pushing the Ukrainian government for a full inquiry.
But when Russia and the Assad government recently carried out bombing runs and artillery fire against rebel strongholds in northern Syria, the US notified the Kremlin that the attacks were threatening American troops on the ground.
Similarly, imperfect though NATO's bombing in Kosovo was, can anyone imagine how many Kosovar lives would have been lost had NATO remained on the sidelines?
The Madrid attacks were the worst terrorist incident in Europe since the December 1988 bombing of a Pan Am jetliner over Lockerbie, Scotland.
The US and its allies are already bombing perpetrators of crimes against humanity in Syria, but only when those perpetrators belong to ISIS rather than to the Syrian government.
In Syria last April, US forces attacked government installations with a one-time bombing raid that, with no political or diplomatic follow-through, achieved nothing.
Russia’s support of the Syrian government’s assault on Aleppo has stymied the peace process, which depends on the cooperation of global players, regional powers, and the moderate opposition forces that Putin is bombing.
This extends to suicide bombing, an immoral and cruel act of terror.
In a widespread Palestinian view, suicide bombing creates a "balance of terror" that may, over time, neutralize Israel's superior firepower.
Did no Western policymaker heed the warnings of responsible Russian politicians that NATO’s bombing of Belgrade in 1999 and Kosovo’s subsequent detachment from Serbia – both in violation of international law and the UN Charter – might set a dangerous precedent?
That changed when the US bombing against the Taliban began; doubts over the wisdom of the US campaign combined with resentment at seeing a super-modern superpower pound away at a medieval country devastated by decades of war.
Given that Russia, too, suffered serious consequences from the Chernobyl accident, it is to be hoped that the Kremlin would recoil at the idea of bombing the plants intentionally.
Russian planes have been bombing the civilian population in southern Syria forcing them to flee to Jordan and Lebanon.
NATO's bombing of Serbia and Kosovo has highlighted these problems again.
But in practice European governments were absolutely determined not to get involved in the war; the furthest they would go in risking their troops was, at first, for humanitarian aid, and later (after some American bombing) for peace-keeping.
When they found that he was stone deaf to their threats, NATO was forced to raise the ante again, by actually bombing military targets in Yugoslavia.
That bombing has been going on for over three weeks now, but there is still no sign that the NATO allies are succeeding in bending Milosevic to their will.
It does not at the moment seem likely that NATO can count on winning this battle of wills by only a continuation of the bombing.
And since bombing is liable to produce rising casualties among civilians, even the simple continuation of the bombing may be difficult to sustain.
Before the bombing, NATO's aim was to broker a new deal in Kosovo, in which Milosevic would abandon ethnic cleansing, and the Kosovars would get limited autonomy within Yugoslavia, but not independence.
In 2005, more than 125 Coalition troops were killed, while suicide bombing emerged as a new and increasingly common tactic of the insurgency.
The Syrian civil war has also become one of the most dangerous breeding grounds for Islamist terrorism, as the Islamic State (ISIS) attacks in Ankara, Beirut, and Paris, and the bombing of a Russian passenger plane above the Sinai Peninsula, have shown.
The images of warplanes bombing civilians and destroying cities have turned Aleppo into a latter-day version of Guernica, immortalized in Picasso’s masterpiece.
Jordanian agents were instrumental in providing the intelligence that enabled US forces to kill Abu Zarqawi, the mastermind of the Amman bombing.
A key Boko Haram member, suspected of masterminding the Madalla bombing, then escaped from police custody, suggesting collaboration between security officials and sect members.
Most Americans probably do not actually believe that the bombing was a “false flag” event, perpetrated by others than the Tsarnaev brothers; rather, the conspiracy theories seem to show how jaded Americans have become about their government’s approach to “terror.”
Their exodus accelerated in August 2004, after the start of the terrorist bombing campaign against Christian churches by Islamists who accuse them of collaboration with the allies by virtue of their faith.
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