Originally posted by jhonan:
Originally posted by Melethia:
Originally posted by jhonan:
Originally posted by Melethia:
As an aside, the suicide bombers inflicting their particular brand of destruction in Baghdad aim for as much collateral damage as possible. |
In most reports of suicide attacks that I've read they do have a political or military target in mind. But you're right, they also inflict terrible collateral damage. I wouldn't say that's their *aim* though. Otherwise what's the point of traversing through checkpoints to get to the other side of the city when they can just blow themselves up in their local town square? |
I'm thinking that walking into a bustling marketplace where people are buying goods for everyday life and blowing yourself up is not giving much thought to "innocent" lives. If you're not part of the insurgency, you're the opposition. It's a very different mindset. |
A Sunni suicide bomber is not going to walk into his local Sunni marketplace and blow himself up. He'll go to a Shia area, and vice versa. Unless I'm really mistaken about the motives of suicide bombers. I'm sure it's not really as simple as "blow myself up and kill as many innocents as possible regardless of their religious, political, or military status" |
They still aim to kill as many as possible, their target may have a different religious belief, but they are mostly ordinary citizens, just trying to live their lives.
They don't target those who have taken up arms against them, just innocent civilians.
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