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Some are remembered by name—who didn’t hear about the embezzling duo of Pomey and Gomes; others by their exploits—the “Alexander the Great bomber?? or the “pot-dealing chef.” But those memories are incomplete, with few following closely what transpired in the aftermath of the initial shocking headlines...
...eight days last December, I worked as an assistant on a United Service Organizations tour of Kuwait and Iraq. I shook thousands of hands, heard hundreds of stories and saw things that I have never seen before and will never see again. I held a suicide bomber??s belt; I met a man whose face was burnt and eyes were blinded by shrapnel; I dined in a tyrant’s water palace; I even detonated a bomb (albeit a small...
...nonsensical term “homicide bombers” to describe Hamas suicide attacks. Fleischer was exhibiting that classic Bush-administration courage by scoring rhetorical points against terrorists, but the actual term is meaningless and even counterproductive. What bomber is not homicidal? The term “suicide bomber?? exists to distinguish between terrorists who kill themselves and those who don’t. The distinction is important in dealing with terror, since the former are more powerful and more motivated, but it didn’t matter to Fox News, who dutifully and instantly adopted the term...
...book, Dershowitz argues that it’s “fair” to impose “economic sanctions” on Palestinians lending “emotional support” to terrorism. He accordingly supports demolishing the home of a suicide bomber??s family, which constitutes a “soft form of collective punishment.” In The Jersualem Post, Dershowitz has urged the “automatic destruction” of an entire Palestinian village after each Palestinian terrorist attack. Isn’t this lending “intellectual support?...
...advantage over the Israelis is that they are more dedicated to their cause: “We are willing to die, but for them every death is a tragedy.” This declaration is often repeated, and it would be a brave statement coming from a suicide bomber??since it shows a greater devotion to the Palestinian cause than even to life itself...