... filled with explosives into a military encampment in 1987 (Joshi; Morris). Suicide bombing has become a way of life with the LTTE with over 170 suicide bombing missions to date (Morris; Sprinzak). Joseph Brewda and Madhu Gurung of the Executive Intelligence Review list the following terrorists acts as having the earmark of the LTTE, ­ In May 1986, the LTTE exterminated the leadership of ... ' motorcade, killing Premadasa, herself, and 34 other people. Bomber was believed to be a 14-year-old girl. ­ On June 5, 1995, the LTTE blew up a Red Cross ship chartered by the International Commit...

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All Suicide Bombers Are Not Alike By JOSEPH LELYVELD A journey to Gaza, Cairo and Hamburg in search of what really made Sept. 11 possible. Whoever kills himself with an iron weapon, then the iron weapon will remain in ... be martyrs.'' Gentle Ibrahim, wavering between his several views of the situation, seemed to me in that week before the start of the American attacks in Afghanistan to crystallize the cross-currents blowing through Gaza. Palestinians at that juncture did not want to join in a ''war'' against America because, even when they convicted it in their minds of double standards and...

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