[lit-ideas] Who actually did invent the suicide bomber?
- From: Eric <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 14:07:29 -0500
Wikipedia suggest that Samson was one of the first
suicide attackers, although such attacks no doubt
predate reliable history.
It also suggests that suicide bombing was first
practiced by a Dutch naval officer in 1831.
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"The earliest reference of a suicide attack
outside a context of warfare is the biblical story
of Samson:
"And Samson said, 'Let me die with the
Philistines!' And he bowed himself with all his
might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon
all the people that were therein. So the dead
which he slew at his death were more than they
which he slew in his life. (Judges 16:30)"
But also mentions
"During the Crusades, the Knights Templar
destroyed one of their own ships, killing 140
Christians in order to kill ten times as many
Muslims."
and
"Another early example of suicide bombing occurred
during the Belgian Revolution, when the Dutch
Lieutenant Jan van Speijk detonated his own ship
in the harbour of Antwerp to prevent being
captured by the Belgians." [1831 -EY]
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