It has been a while since the Bush administration tried to classify suicide bombings as homicide bindings, so you might be wondering why I am writing about it. I read a post on a programming message board where someone mentioned suicide bombings. Another poster corrected the person, using the term homicide bombing. I think the term homicide bombing is idiotic, which is what triggered me to write this.
In Iraq bombers have been responsible for the majority of deaths. There are three types of bombings that can occur.
- Suicide. The bomber dies, and nobody else. The Bush administration wants this to be a definition of a suicide bombing.
- Suicide bombing. The bomber dies as well as other people. Suicide bombings are the common method of killing Iraqi civilians.
- Homicide bombing, better known as just a bombing. The bomber lives, but other people die. Roadside bombs that kill American soldiers are a common example of homicide bombings.
When the bomber kills himself (or herself) and a bunch of other people, it's a suicide bombing. The bomber dying makes it a suicide. For it to be a homicide bombing, the bomber has to survive the blast.
