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maddezmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 09:33 AM
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Since 2001, a huge increase in suicide bombings(last yr 542 of 658 were in US occupied countries)
Edited on Fri Apr-18-08 09:34 AM by maddezmom
Source: Washington Post

Since 2001, a huge increase in suicide bombings
Out of 658 attacks worldwide last year, 542 were in U.S.-occupied countries
By Robin Wright

updated 4:51 a.m. CT, Fri., April. 18, 2008
Suicide bombers conducted 658 attacks around the world last year, including 542 in U.S.-occupied Afghanistan and Iraq, according to data compiled by U.S. government experts.

The large number of attacks -- more than double the number in any of the past 25 years -- reflects a trend that has surprised and worried U.S. intelligence and military analysts.

More than four-fifths of the suicide bombings over that period have occurred in the past seven years, the data show. The bombings have spread to dozens of countries on five continents, killed more than 21,350 people and injured about 50,000 since 1983, when a landmark attack blew up the U.S. Embassy in Beirut.



Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24194773/
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LynnTheDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 09:41 AM
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1. It's the American Way of spreading "democracy" and "freedom"...
...for some reason no one could predict, it makes people angry enough to suicide-bomb.
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saigon68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 12:31 PM
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3. "FREEDOM IS ON THE MARCH" shouted the AWOL CHIMPANZEE
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-18-08 10:02 AM
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2. So The War Against Terror (TWAT) is a big success? nt
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