Curse Of The Suicide Bomber

Cause and effect: the aftermath of a suicide bomb in Baghdad.
Photo from The Independent/Reuters

Curse of the Suicide Bomber: One Sunday's Carnage
-- Time Magazine

The reports came in all of a sudden: Suicide bombings in four different parts of the world. The toll is not particularly high. But the geographical range reflected the depressing spread of the terrorist ploy — from Sri Lanka, where separatists mastered the technique to devastating effect in the 1980s, to Iraq, where its use appears to be ebbing after years when it paralyzed Baghdad. Indeed, the attack in the northern Iraq city of Mosul on Sunday was the least destructive: bomber on a bicycle blew himself up Sunday amid a crowd of about 1,300 demonstrators in northern Iraq who were protesting Israel's airstrikes on Gaza, killing one demonstrator and wounding 16 others, Iraqi police said. In Pakistan and Afghanistan, however, the technique continues to be deployed with horrific results. With reporting by AP/Hamid Ahmed in Baghdad

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My Comment: And almost all of the victims are children and the innocent.