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| Woman Suicide Bomber Kills 15 in North Ossetia |
| 2003-06-05 |
| A woman suicide bomber blew up a bus carrying Russian air force pilots in a southern region bordering rebel Chechnya on Thursday, killing at least 15 people. A defense ministry spokesman said the attack occurred in the region of North Ossetia when the bus carrying the pilots and a group of civilians attached to the air force slowed down at a railway crossing. "Just as the bus was going over a railway crossing the woman walked up to it and blew herself up," the spokesman said in Moscow. |
| Posted by:Paul Moloney |
| #6 Anon1 you have a point, but in the grand scheme of things its a moot one. Everybody thinks Islamist when they see the words 'suicide bomber'. If the press is not careful they will make the words synonyms. |
| Posted by: Yank 2003-06-05 14:18:29 |
| #5 mmmmmmmmmm, raisins. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2003-06-05 11:12:11 |
| #4 Here's another point to add to anon1's very accurate input: In the last spasm of homicide bombings in Israel, there was an incident at a mall. The western press referred to the people killed only as "bystanders". Not women, not men, not children, not even Israelis - just bystanders. It's a little harder to feel sympathy with faceless, ageless, sexless, automatons, than for those "poor paleos, driven to such desperation by years of 'occupation'. What the press does is actually manage to switch the humanity from ordinary people like you or I, out shopping, and place it undeservedly on people who, Ironically, have forfeited their membership to humanity by their own choice. |
| Posted by: Dripping sarcasm 2003-06-05 05:58:34 |
| #3 In that part of the world religion has nothing to do with anything except to attract the losers who think it is about religion, specifically, Islam. Other than that, everything is an extension of conditions that have existed since Adam & Eve: territorial clan loyalty and thuggery. |
| Posted by: RW 2003-06-05 05:49:25 |
| #2 She was another Islamist separatist. Try finding that out from Western news now. The word "Islamist" is taboo and is stricken from the record. The why of news reports has been thrown out the window. Everyone is just a 'rebel' and no-one's got any idea what the hell they're rebelling against because the news doesn't tell them. Here's a clue: the religion of peace usually makes an appearance |
| Posted by: Anon1 2003-06-05 05:12:16 |
| #1 Yank: i think you have a good point there. I think it is dangerous in two directions. 1) It leaves those who aren't observant or well informed in blissful ignorance of the worldwide Islamist uprising 2) It will in the future lend itself towards anti-muslim sentiment as people will eventually just associate both suicide bombings and other terrorist acts by "rebels" and "separatist groups" with Islam as opposed to Islamofascists. When the media refuses to report the Islamofascist component, people are also deprived of the attendant debate/commentary which would be there constantly to explain the difference between Islamofascists and moderate secular muslims. This is an understanding the public needs to have but they are being cheated of it now by being kept airbrushed away from what is really going on. Thus in the end, the public is going to be far more likely to backlash against all muslims in ignorance when they associate suicide-bombings and terrorist uprisings with the religion of Peace. The liberal media is in effect defeating it's own ends and inflating prejudice which it is trying to suppress. It will make it worse in the long term. I don't know how they can be so short-sighted and downright stupid. |
| Posted by: Anon1 2003-06-05 20:10:13 |