--- Austin Meredith <Kouroo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >This is a Marxist group, a completely secular group > >that draws from the Hindu families of the Tamil > >regions of the country. They invented the famous > >suicide vest for their suicide assassination of > Rajiv > >Ghandi in May 1991. The Palestinians got the idea > of > >the suicide vest from the Tamil Tigers. > > This would amount to a claim that the Tamil Tigers > invented the suicide > bomber in the late 20th Century. Such a claim would > involve the assertion > that there was no such thing before the late 20th > Century. *The above says that the Tamil invented the sucide vest, not the suicide bombing. As for suicide bombing, i.e. detonating a bomb and dying in the explosion, I doubt that it needed to be invented. I know of an example of suicide bombing from the Turkish siege of Siget in the 16. century, where a janissary blew up himself and one of the Austrian defence towers. (This, though, was not the standard Ottoman practice.) One earlier example of a suicide attack (before explosives existed) is Milosh Obilic, a Serb nobleman, who killed Sultan Murad I after the battle of Kosovo in 1389., surely knowing full well that he would be killed later. The 9/11 style of suicide attack, i.e. using a plane as a bomb, is of course very similar to Japanese camikaze tactics. O.K. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html