Monday, June 04, 2007

The Pliable Mind of the Suicide Bomber

I am always astonished when I see the list of suicide bombings and car bombs that have killed and maimed thousands of Iraqi innocents.  We know that Wahhabi terrorists believe that Shia are infidels and that killing them will be rewarded in heaven, but I have noticed that lately there have been more suicide bombings in Sunni Arab areas, like the one that killed 20 people near a police recruitment center in Falluja on May 31st.  How these so-called Muslims can be convinced that mass murdering Shia will be rewarded in heaven is beyond my comprehension, but convincing them that killing Sunni Arabs who work as security forces in the new Iraq will also be rewarded in heaven really takes a special kind of talent, and a very pliable mind in the suicide bomber!

'These incomplete figures reflect externally-cited tallies issued by media / military / NGO / think-tank sources and they have also been cross-referenced against the chronological attack archive below. Note also that some attacks involve multiple simultaneous bombings, and so the number of individual suicide blasts has been understated in certain fragments of this data.'

  • March 2003 - July 2003: 4 attacks, 5 attackers[3]
  • August 2003 - December 2003: 23, 27[3]
  • January 2004 - May 2004: 29, 31 [3]
  • June 2004 - October 2004: 40, 44 [3] (there were 68 suicide vehicle bombings during the period 28 Jun '04 - 13 Jan '05) [4]
  • November 2004 - March 2005: 73, 78 [3]
  • April 2005 - September 2005: 112, 170[3] (some data suggest more than 240 bombers were actually killed during this period [5] [6])
  • October 2005: 51[6]
  • November 2005: 23 [6]
  • December 2005: 9 [7]
  • January 2006 - April 2006: ~100[8]
  • May 2006: 9 [9]
  • June 2006: 11 [10]
  • July 2006: 17[11]
  • August 2006: 9 [12]
  • September 2006: 14 [13]
  • October 2006: 34[14]
  • November 2006 - December 2006: 62 [15]
  • January 2007: 17 [16]
  • February 2007 - March 2007: 92 [15]
  • April 2007: 56[17]
  • May 2007: 46 [18]
  • June 2007: 5 [19]

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