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Atticus
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Good Answer and much to explore and think about. Thanks.
You might also want to check out the following item on BBC.
1985: Beirut car bomb kills dozens
At least 45 people have died and 175 have been injured in a car bomb explosion in Beirut, Lebanon.
The bomb went off outside a block of flats and close to a mosque as worshippers were gathering for Friday night prayers in a densely populated Shia Muslim suburb......
........Some American press reports said the CIA was behind the attack, which was meant to kill Sheikh Fadlallah. He had been accused of supporting the suicide bombers who killed hundreds of US and French troops in attacks on military headquarters in Beirut in 1983 - a charge he has always denied.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/8/newsid_2516000/2516407.stm
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If what is implied is true, how does it tie in with your view of terrorism?
Another one to consider. The issue of collateral damage.
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Coalition Strike in Afghanistan Kills 9 Children
By Carlotta Gall and John H. Cushman Jr.
New York Times
Sunday 07 December 2003
United States warplanes attacking a suspected member of the Taliban killed nine children in the southeastern province of Ghazni on Saturday, Afghan and American military officials confirmed Sunday morning. One man was also killed in the attack, they said.
In a statement issued early on Sunday from the headquarters of the American-led military forces at Bagram Air Base near Kabul, the military said ground forces searching the area after the attack found the bodies of the children as well as the body of the suspect.
"Coalition forces regret the loss of any innocent life," the statement said. It said the troops remaining in the area "will make every effort to assist the families of the innocent casualties and determine the cause of the civilian deaths."
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Is there a difference? Possibly the terrorist intent to kill and maim instead of doing it incidentally through the bombing of a civilian area in a country to which you do not belong, using a multi million dollar jet.
Incidently, I read in a subsequent article that the dead man was not the suspect.
Atticus
Good Answer and much to explore and think about. Thanks.
You might also want to check out the following item on BBC.
1985: Beirut car bomb kills dozens
At least 45 people have died and 175 have been injured in a car bomb explosion in Beirut, Lebanon.
The bomb went off outside a block of flats and close to a mosque as worshippers were gathering for Friday night prayers in a densely populated Shia Muslim suburb......
........Some American press reports said the CIA was behind the attack, which was meant to kill Sheikh Fadlallah. He had been accused of supporting the suicide bombers who killed hundreds of US and French troops in attacks on military headquarters in Beirut in 1983 - a charge he has always denied.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/8/newsid_2516000/2516407.stm
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If what is implied is true, how does it tie in with your view of terrorism?
Another one to consider. The issue of collateral damage.
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Coalition Strike in Afghanistan Kills 9 Children
By Carlotta Gall and John H. Cushman Jr.
New York Times
Sunday 07 December 2003
United States warplanes attacking a suspected member of the Taliban killed nine children in the southeastern province of Ghazni on Saturday, Afghan and American military officials confirmed Sunday morning. One man was also killed in the attack, they said.
In a statement issued early on Sunday from the headquarters of the American-led military forces at Bagram Air Base near Kabul, the military said ground forces searching the area after the attack found the bodies of the children as well as the body of the suspect.
"Coalition forces regret the loss of any innocent life," the statement said. It said the troops remaining in the area "will make every effort to assist the families of the innocent casualties and determine the cause of the civilian deaths."
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Is there a difference? Possibly the terrorist intent to kill and maim instead of doing it incidentally through the bombing of a civilian area in a country to which you do not belong, using a multi million dollar jet.
Incidently, I read in a subsequent article that the dead man was not the suspect.
Atticus