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To: Lane3 who wrote (2474)	8/3/2005 12:45:44 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 541939

Not all terrorists are suicide bombers. - I totally agree. Not all suicide bombers are terrorists? - Well technically this may be true. Certainly it is possible to be a suicide bomber without being a terrorist, but it would be pretty hard to find a non-suicide bomber terrorist. I suppose the only distinction is that if you consider attacks against military forces to not be terrorism than for example the bombers who attack the Cole would not have committed a terrorist act. Still if they are afiliated with a terrorist group and possibly planned assisted and/or supported other terrorist acts that might be enough to make the label terrorist apply even if the Cole attack itself is not defined as an act of terrorism. Besides we want to stop people like the Cole attacks as much as we want to stop people who have committed or are planning to commit terrorist acts against civilians. Blowing people up rather then shooting them - Well I agree it really doesn't make a difference except that blowing people up tends to kill more people. It harder to defend against. If someone tries to shoot you, you can shoot back. If you don't have a gun, well maybe he gets you and keeps killing but he can only kill so many people before police, or someone with a gun, or a number of aggressive and bold unarmed people stop him. A bomb kills a whole bunch of people all at once, and a suicide bomber is particularly hard to defend against. If we focus on suicide attacks it doesn't keep us from stopping other attacks, and it is a useful focus as they are some of the most dangerous. Esp. if you include 9/11 they have resulted in the most deaths but even if you exclude it and only focus on suicide bombings such attacks are very deadly. Tim

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