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2005-05-12 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by Fred 2005-05-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Did the Algerians ever have much of an issue with suicide bombers?

Posted by Classical_Liberal 2005-05-12 00:10|| 2005-05-12 00:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Everyone in Iraq is armed. I don't think everyone with Algeria is armed. I've heard that some of the attacks in Algeria were carried out with edged weapons. Wouldn't work in Iraq.

Posted by Zhang Fei">Zhang Fei 2005-05-12 00:46|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-05-12 00:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Did the Algerians ever have much of an issue with suicide bombers?

The simple answer is there was a lot less weaponry and explosives around back them. Most of the savagery was by knife and blade as the previous poster stated. Savagery done up front, up close and personal.

Posted by sea cruise 2005-05-12 04:39|| 2005-05-12 04:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Looks like they've regressed to terrorizing Saddam's hometown, which suggests there's not too much support for their "insurgency" even in Tikrit. And this is even though they suggest "a major US offensive" really has no impact. See how you can find good news in between the lines?

Posted by Bobby 2005-05-12 11:59|| 2005-05-12 11:59|| Front Page Top

#5 Good catch, Bobby!

Posted by trailing wife 2005-05-12 16:52|| 2005-05-12 16:52|| Front Page Top

#6 This suicide offensive is really beginning to remind me of the Japanese Kamikaze onslaught during the final year of World War 2, the last gasp of a dying monster. The big difference of course is that the original Kamikazes targeted military forces rather than their own people.

Given that this is a media war, "terrorism is an extension of advertising by other means," the place to strike would be the boomers' primary media and public-relations support, which is found not in Iraq but in the West.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-05-12 21:55|| 2005-05-12 21:55|| Front Page Top

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