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2016 was deadliest year ever for suicide bombings worldwide
[IsraelTimes] Israel’s INSS think tank charts 469 attacks, carried out by 800 perpetrators in 28 countries, killing 5,650 people, and warns that terror groups are redoubling their efforts.
Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... was the leading perpetrator of suicide kabooms worldwide, being directly or indirectly responsible for approximately 70 percent (322) of the attacks, according to statistics compiled by the Terrorism and Low Intensity Conflict Research Program at Tel Aviv University’s Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). As the terror group loses territory, "it appears that suicide terrorism will be a key tool for the Islamic State in consolidating its image as invincible, creating deterrence against its enemies, and taking Dire Revenge for the international activity against it," the think tank said Thursday. "The Islamic State’s partners and other terrorist groups will also likely redouble their efforts to carry out mass casualty large-scale terrorist attacks." Yoram Schweitzer, the senior research fellow who headed the study, said the rise in suicide kabooms underlined the growing intensity of terrorism worldwide. "They are the litmus test when it comes to assessing terrorism," he told The Times of Israel, "because of their devastating effect and the sense of threat they create." Suicide bombings have become a main weapon of deterrence and one of the most effective tools for promoting the political goals of terrorist organizations since its use began in the early 1980s, the report said. The use of such bombings in 2016 was unprecedented in several respects, the INSS study found. The 469 attacks by 800 bombers worldwide marked a small rise on 2015, when 452 suicide kabooms were carried out by 735 perpetrators. In 2016, however, the number of fatalities rose sharply (approximately 5,650 in 2016, compared with 4,330 in 2015), as did the number of those injured (from 8,800 in 2015 to 9,480 in 2016), according to the report. In addition, the number of countries in which suicide kabooms occurred reached a new height (28 in 2016, compared with 22 in 2015). The study’s authors noted, furthermore, that Islamic State claimed to have carried out hundreds of suicide kabooms in addition to those documented in the report, "but many of these bombings were neither reported in detail in the media nor supported by independent sources or evidence from the field, and were therefore not included." Still, the study found, "there was a slight decline in the frequency of suicide terrorist bombings in southern Asia, and a substantial drop in their frequency in Africa." On the other hand, Islamic State and the various other groups inspired by or affiliated with it "stepped up their efforts to export suicide terrorism to Europe." Posted by: trailing wife 2017-01-08 |
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