[lit-ideas] Re: Who actually did invent the suicide bomber?

  • From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 18:13:38 -0800 (PST)


--- Eric <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It probably would have been a violation of the 
Bushido warrior code (which included the virtues 
of truthfulness and politeness) for the "divine 
wind special attack units" or "tokkÅ?tai" to strike 
at civilians going to work.

*The question as I understood it was about technique
not about moral nature of the acts. As for the bushido
code, it didn't exactly impress at the Rape of
Nanjing, for example.

O.K.

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