Myth of the Suicide Bomber

[blackbear]

The Myth Of The Palestinian Suicide Bomber
Joe Quinn
Signs of the Times
While the Israeli government has turned the Gaza strip and West Bank regions of Palestine into virtual prison camps, there is one section of the Palestinian community that appears to enjoy unhindered freedom of movement and a blind eye form the Israeli camps guards: "suicide bombers"..........

http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/126268-The+Myth+Of+The +Palestinian+Suicide+Bomber

What is beyond doubt is that it would be very easy for Israeli intelligence to stage a fake "suicide bombing". A bomb could be concealed in the chosen location, and when the chosen patsy enters or approaches, the bomb is detonated, with Israeli security forces quickly arriving on the scene to declare the cause and tie up any loose ends. What the world public must decide is if a section of the Israeli government possesses the political will to carry out such attacks. Basically, would our political leaders "do that". To answer that question, all that is required is a little reading on the details of Western state counter-insurgency tactics over the past 50 years. Those who do so, even the most skeptical, invariably find it impossible to deny the FACT that Western governments have, on many occasions and in some cases as a matter of ongoing policy, sacrificed the lives of innocent civilians in order to further political goals. ............

Over the past 6 years, over 500 Israeli citizens have been killed in about 130 "Palestinian suicide bombings". It is up to each individual to decide how many of those alleged suicide bombings were actually carried out by real Palestinian suicide bombers.

I suggest none

Views on a postcard.....

[TonyGosling]

This is pretty much my view - particularly after Seamus Milne's recent Guardian interview with the Iraqi resistance

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,2129493,00.html

[karlos]

Actually i agree with the two posts above but i would go further and say MOST suicide bombings in the world including Iraq are bogus. As blackbear says you only need to detonate a bomb and blame it on someone.
I was laughing (ironically) when they announced recently that a suicide bomber training camp had been found. I personally believe of so called suicide bombings worldwide only 1% are real suicides. I would include the Tamil Tigers who actually invented suicide bombings.

[TonyGosling]

This incident was reported in the West as a suicide car bombing.....
http://www.christusrex.org/www1/news/ipc-3-30-04.html

'To wit - as they say in the courts - an article on 26 February stating that the destruction of new Iraqi police barracks in Iskandariyah that same month was caused by a missile fired by an American helicopter.'

And led to the Al Sadr newspaper being closed by Paul Bremer back in 2004.

http://www.suicidebomber.org.uk/

[Newspeak International]

I don't believe this.....

....full agreement (so far)on this forum,has to be a first

On the probabilities of how things really are, I'm inclined to agree also.

[eogz]

When I first read this post I thought, noooo surely not.

Then I remembered all I had read and came to think it is possible.

Operation Gladio being one of the things that crossed my mind.

In some ways I really hope it isn't true, like all the other horrible stuff I've read about these last few years.

[eogz]

Intersting article from the Signs of the Times people.

http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/138504-Suicide+Bombing s+-+A+Favourite+US+Counter-Insurgency+Tactic

[Newspeak International]

Excellent link eogz:

[Bongo]

It is so easy to understand, when you realise that there is always more than one side to a story!!!